HEADQUARTERS
Paris, France
publicly traded
YES
operations
Global
LARGEST SHAREHOLDERS
Government of Belgium (5.591%)
BNP Paribas SA Employee Stock Ownership Plan (3.7%) Government of Luxembourg (1.138%)
subsidiaries
DBNL (Italian commercial bank)
total assets
£2.2 trillion (EUR 2.7 trillion)
financing overview
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climate crisis
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genocide in Gaza
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Palestine occupation
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controversial weapons
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Migrant abuse
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£49,623,486
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£4,707,560,000
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£22,468,800,000
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£9,105,600,000
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£80,300,000
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#20 financier of fossil fuel companies since 2021
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One of the largest European creditors to weapons companies complicit in the genocide in Gaza
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The largest European funder of companies involved in the occupation of Palestine worldwide
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Bankrolling Airbus
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Bankrolling Airbus
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PALESTINE OCCUPATION
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TOTAL ENERGIES
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£1.5bn
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EQUINOR
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£445m
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GLENCORE
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£111m
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BP
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£1.7bn
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BAE SYSTEMS
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£73m
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BOEING
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£1.7m
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RTX
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£1.2m
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FLUOR
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£79m
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JACOBS SOLUTIONS
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£1m
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CATERPILLAR
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£540m
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AXEL SPRINGER
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£394m
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Fossil fuel companies bankrolling the climate crisis
Funded: £1.5bn
gaza genocide
climate crisis
TotalEnergies is a French energy giant complicit in human rights abuses, relentless fossil fuel expansion, and decades of deceit. Like its peers, TotalEnergies knew about climate change as early as 1970 but chose to fund misinformation campaigns, deliberately delaying vital climate action. Now it hides behind greenwashing—falsely claiming a path to net zero while boosting fossil fuel production.
TotalEnergies’ East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project in Uganda and Tanzania has sparked outrage over human rights violations and environmental destruction. This 1,440km behemoth threatens to displace over 120,000 people, leaving communities devastated and livelihoods shattered. The Ugandan government, seemingly in lockstep with TotalEnergies, has ruthlessly silenced opposition, jailing peaceful protesters and crushing dissent. Families face intimidation and pressure to accept paltry compensation, their futures hanging in the balance.
Most chillingly, Total fuels Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Research reveals it supplies oil to Israel via Brazilian shipments and the BTC pipeline, profiting from bloodshed. The list of Total’s abuses culminates with its complicity in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. Investigations by Oil Change International expose its direct complicity in Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians, supplying oil through Brazilian onshore fields it co-owns and the BTC pipeline, where it holds a stake. While Gaza burns, Total fuels the fire.
Funded: £445m
gaza genocide
climate crisis
Equinor, Norway’s state-owned oil giant and largest operator on its continental shelf, cynically promotes itself as sustainable while aggressively expanding fossil fuel extraction. The company has been exposed for misleading claims about the effectiveness of its carbon capture technology. Additionally, the UK Advertising Regulator banned its greenwashing ads for misrepresenting the share of renewables in its energy mix. Its net-zero pledge rings hollow as it launches new Arctic drilling at Johan Castberg and pursues the ecologically catastrophic Wisting field, while conducting risky deep-sea exploration in Argentina’s vulnerable waters and ignoring indigenous impacts in Canada’s Bay DuNord project.
Equinor’s partnership with Ithaca energy on the Rosebank field has drawn criticism due to Ithaca’s majority owner Delek group being listed on a UN database of companies operating in Israel’s West Bank settlements, considered illegal under international law. Delek group has come under further scrutiny of late due to its links to the Israeli military, with the company being accused of providing fuel for genocidal operations in Gaza. This partnership with Ithaca makes Equinor not only complicit in the destruction of the planet, but also the genocide of Palestinians.
Case Study – Carbon Bomb – Rosebank
Rosebank will exacerbate climate-related catastrophes, because it represents an expansion of the fossil fuel industry. It’s the largest undeveloped oil and gas field in the North Sea, estimated to contain approximately 500 million barrels of oil equivalent according to Rystad Energy data. Its emissions would be more than the combined emissions of all low income countries in the world.
In 2021, the International Energy Agency stated there is “no need for investment in new fossil fuel supply in our net zero pathway”. Developing a massive new field like Rosebank is clearly incompatible with limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5C.
Funded: £111m
climate crisis
Glencore, one of the world’s largest mining companies and a leading trader of fossil-fuel commodities, embodies the brutal realities of neocolonial exploitation. Glencore accounts for a significant portion of global coal production, operating mines in countries like Colombia, South Africa, and Australia, while systematically ravaging environments and trampling human rights.
Its operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are a stark example, where investigations revealed years of waste acid discharge from its Luilu copper refinery, causing severe pollution and ongoing spills. Glencore’s denial of responsibility for child labour at its sites, instead blaming impoverished locals, is a cynical attempt to deflect from its own complicity. Further exposing its predatory practices, the Paradise Papers leak unveiled Glencore’s ties to controversial figures who facilitated the acquisition of undervalued mining rights, robbing the DRC of a tenth of its annual budget.
Glencore’s corruption extends across Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, and Cameroon, with its former head of oil trading and four executives facing UK bribery charges, including allegations of flying cash bribes on private jets. In South America, its copper mining has poisoned indigenous lands and rivers in Peru, devastating the health and livelihoods of the Quechua and K’ana peoples while denying compensation. The company’s dark history also includes funding state security forces and paramilitary groups in Colombia and the Philippines to intimidate and murder communities resisting its exploitation.
Funded: £1.7bn
gaza genocide
climate crisis
BP, one of the world’s largest energy corporations, is a symbol of ruthless greed and imperial exploitation. Born as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in 1909, it was the engine of British imperialism, securing control over Iranian oil through corruption and coercion while the Iranian people were left impoverished and dispossessed.
BP’s legacy is stained with environmental catastrophe and human suffering. The 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster unleashed nearly five million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, killing untold marine life and devastating ecosystems, all while BP cynically promoted its “Beyond Petroleum” greenwashing campaign.
Now, BP is complicit in genocide, supplying oil that fuels Israel’s brutal war machine against Palestinians. Weeks into the genocide, BP accepted an Israeli gas exploration license, proving yet again its callous disregard for oppressed communities.
Companies bankrolling the occupation of palestine
Funded: £394m
palestine occupation
Axel Springer SE is a European multinational mass media company, based in Berlin, Germany. The company offers printing and publishing of advertisements, digital classifieds portfolio, marketing models and related services. Axel Springer’s operations are segmented into News Media, Classifieds Media, and Marketing Media. The company is organised as a publishing house and is one of the largest mass media publishers in the EU with numerous multimedia news brands, such as Bild, Die Welt, Fakt, and the US political news site Politico.
Springer’s Israeli classified ads website Yad2 — the largest Craigslist-like classifieds site in the country — publishes real estate listings across Israel, including rental apartments and sales in Israeli settlements that are considered illegal under international law. Since its founding in 2005, Yad2 has become Israel’s top online platform for classified ads.
A complaint was filled earlier by the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Centre on behalf of the Palestinians, the complaint says that Yad2’s facilitation of settlement activity fuels Israeli land grabbing and therefore violates Germany’s Supply Chain Due Diligence Act. Passed last year, the law requires German companies to identify and mitigate human rights risks within their global supply chains, including in subsidiaries which they control.
Springer enshrines support for Israel in its mission statement, formal internal guidance that the company calls its “essentials.” All of Springer’s subsidiaries and employees are bound to uphold this stance. In October 2023, the firm fired a Lebanese employee who questioned the pro-Israel policy.
Funded: £540m
palestine occupation
gaza genocide
Caterpillar Inc. is a U.S.-based multinational manufacturer and provider of civil and military engineering machinery. Caterpillar is the world’s largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment. The company operates in three sectors: resource industries, construction industries and power systems.
Caterpillar is a long-standing supplier of the Israeli military and provides it with a variety of heavy engineering machinery, including different wheel loaders, armored excavators, mini loaders and several models from the D9 armored bulldozer series (D9R, D9N, D9L and D9T).
Caterpillar machinery has been widely used for house demolition and settlement construction in the occupied Palestinian territory, as well as for the construction of the Separation Wall in the occupied West Bank and the barrier surrounding besieged Gaza.
Fitted D9 Caterpillar bulldozers are extensively used by the Israeli military to accompany military forces during invasions and military arrests in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
D9 Caterpillar bulldozers have demolished thousands of homes in Gaza since the latest conflict started in 2023. They have caused massive damage and made large parts of Gaza uninhabitable.
Weapons Companies bankrolling the Gaza Genocide and Cont. Weapons
Funded: £1.7m
controversial weapons
gaza genocide
Boeing is not only a global aerospace giant but also a pivotal enabler of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. The company has supplied Israel with vast quantities of advanced weaponry, notably its Joint Direct Attack Munition kits, which convert unguided bombs into precision-guided munitions. These Boeing-manufactured weapons have been linked to numerous deadly attacks on densely populated civilian areas, in what Amnesty International and other human rights organisations have condemned as potential war crimes. Boeing’s Apache attack helicopters and F-15 fighter jets have also played a central role in Israeli military campaigns, further amplifying the scale and lethality of operations in Gaza.
Beyond its role in conventional warfare, Boeing is a key contractor in the U.S. nuclear weapons program, maintaining and supporting the guidance systems for Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles, which are central to the U.S. nuclear arsenal. This dual role—supplying both conventional and nuclear arsenals—places Boeing at the heart of global military-industrial power, with its products implicated in both genocide and the ongoing threat of nuclear escalation.
Case study: Joint Direct Attack Munitions used on Palestinians
- Deir al-Balah, Gaza
- Owner: Boeing
On 10 and 22 October 2023, two Israeli air strikes—using Boeing-manufactured Joint Direct Attack Munitions —killed 43 civilians, including 19 children, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza. Amnesty International’s forensic analysis confirmed Boeing’s JDAM fragments and manufacturing codes in the rubble of destroyed homes, where survivors reported no prior warning. The attacks, lacking any apparent military objective, obliterated families and left survivors in shock.
US-made weapons facilitated the mass killings of extended families
Funded: £1.2m
controversial weapons
RTX, formerly known as Raytheon Technologies, is a major player in the global arms industry and a prime contractor for the United States’ newest generation of nuclear weapons. The company leads the development of the Long Range Standoff missile, a nuclear-capable weapon designed to be launched from bombers and to evade modern defences, reinforcing America’s nuclear strike capabilities. RTX’s influence extends further through its subsidiary, Collins Aerospace, which is building crucial command and control systems for the US Air Force’s next-generation Sentinel missile. These projects place RTX at the core of efforts to modernise and expand the US nuclear arsenal.
Funded: £73m
gaza genocide
controversial weapons
BAE Systems is the United Kingdom’s largest arms manufacturer and ranks as the sixth largest globally by revenue. The company is a critical partner in the F-35 Lightning II program and is responsible for approximately 15% of the aircraft’s components. BAE also holds four active military export licences to Israel, issued since 2021.
One of its most controversial products is the M109 howitzer, capable of firing 155mm shells, including white phosphorus rounds and described by BAE as achieving the “optimal balance between lethality… and reliability.”
Human rights groups have presented evidence that these BAE-supplied howitzers were unleashed by Israeli forces in Gaza, firing white phosphorus shells into densely populated civilian areas. This constitutes a flagrant war crime under international law, unleashing unspeakable suffering.
Furthermore, a United Nations investigation revealed BAE equipment was deployed in a January 2024 bombing in Gaza that struck a building housing international doctors, including a British surgeon. This incident illustrates how UK-produced weapons are being used to target UK civilians.
Human rights groups, including Amnesty International, have presented evidence that BAE-supplied M109 howitzers were unleashed by Israeli forces in Gaza in October 2023. The howitzers fired white phosphorus shells into densely populated areas of Gaza. This constitutes a flagrant war crime under international law, given white phosphorus’s incendiary nature, which burns at extreme temperatures and causes horrific, life-altering injuries. The British manufacturer’s direct contribution to this arsenal links it to the crime of genocide and breaches of international humanitarian law.
Any time that white phosphorus is used in crowded civilian areas, it poses a high risk of excruciating burns and lifelong suffering
Companies bankrolling Migrant Abuse
Funded: £1.1m
migrant aBUSE
Jacobs Solutions, previously known as “Jacobs Engineering”, is a U.S. based company that provides consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery services for the government and private sector. Jacobs Engineering completed its acquisition of another nuclear weapon component producer, CH2M Hill, in 2017. On 20 November 2023, Jacobs announced a definitive agreement to spin-off and combine its Critical Mission Solutions and Cyber & Intelligence government services businesses with Amentum, a private equity-owned U.S. government services company involved in the management and operation of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. In the financial year ending 27 September 2022, Jacobs generated revenues of $14.9 billion.
38 construction workers from the Philippines filed a complaint against the U.S. companies Jacobs Solutions and CH2M Hill and their subsidiaries (collectively, “Defendants”) for allegedly managing construction projects that used trafficked and forced labor. The Plaintiffs worked on stadiums built for the FIFA 2022 World Cup in Qatar, where they … allege they were trafficked and then forced to work…
Plaintiffs claim Defendants managed and oversaw a construction venture that subjected them to inhumane working and living conditions and abuse, including by misrepresenting the terms of their employment in Qatar, forcing Plaintiffs to work inhumane hours and forcing them to live in inhumane conditions, and/or underpaying them or denying them payment for their work. The Plaintiffs also allege Defendants confiscated their passports, trapping them in Qatar, and forcing them to continue to work in violation of the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act.