European banks pour nearly €8 billion a year into critical minerals mining despite links to human rights and environmental abuses Jade.Tenwick Mon, 11/17/2025 - 00:01 Off Meanwhile the EU rolls back and weakens its sustainability and green rules New Oxfam, Fair Finance International and 11.11.11. report exposes how Europe’s banks and investors are blindly investing in mining companies linked to land grabs, pollution and human rights violations. This comes ahead of the EU’s Raw Materials Week.   The report ,  “Financing Critical Minerals but Failing Critical Safeguards” , finds that Europe’s drive to secure critical raw materials needed for the green transition inadvertently fuels human rights abuses and environmental harm.