Companies to Boycott and Divest From

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This page is dedicated to identifying bad businesses, for boycott and divestment.

Greenpeace's Dirty Dozen

Here is a list of companies and organizations identified by Greenpeace as The Dirty Dozen, promoting climate change, which is destroying the delicate balance of the planet's ecosystem, leading to melting ice caps, sea rise, species extinction, extreme weather, coastal flooding, and many other devastating consequences. These harmful effects are already being experienced in many parts of the world. These effects are accelerating, while the causes of climate change are also accelerating. These trends must be reversed if we are to save the planet that we all depend upon for survival. The following companies are responsible for preventing a binding UN resolution to reverse the effects of climate change.

The Dirty Dozen

1. Royal Dutch Shell

2. Shell Canada

3. ArcelorMittal

4. ExxonMobil

5. KOCH Industries

6. BASF

7. International Chamber of Commerce

8. World Business Council for Sustainable Development

9. Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers

10. BusinessEurope

11. US Chamber of Commerce

12. American Petroleum Institute

The Big Bad Banks

Many economists, including Bank of England Governor Mervyn King, former US Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, and former International Monetary Fund Chief Simon Johnson, have said that Banks that are "too big to fail" are "too big" and should be broken up into smaller banks. Banks that are determined to be "too big to fail" create a "moral hazard" by taking enormous risks with the world economy and are then bailed out by governments to prevent world economic collapse. The following 29 banks have been identified by the Financial Stability Board as "too big to fail."

Banks That Are Too Big

1. Bank of America

2. Bank of China

3. Bank of New York Mellon

4. Banque Populaire CdE

5. Barclays

6. BNP Paribas

7. Citigroup

8. Commerzbank

9. Credit Suisse

10. Deutsche Bank

11. Dexia

12. Goldman Sachs

13. Group Crédit Agricole

14. HSBC

15. ING Bank

16. JP Morgan Chase

17. Lloyds Banking Group

18. Mitsubishi UFJ FG

19. Mizuho FG

20. Morgan Stanley

21. Nordea

22. Royal Bank of Scotland

23. Santander

24. Société Générale

25. State Street

26. Sumitomo Mitsui FG

27. UBS

28. Unicredit Group

29. Wells Fargo

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