AMP verzichtet auf Investitionen in Streubomben-Hersteller
In einer neuen Policy hat das australische Unternehmen AMP nun explizit Investitionen in Streubomben-Hersteller ausgeschlossen. In den nächsten Monaten wird AMP 130 Millionen AUD aus diversen explosiven Geschäften abziehen. Im Gegensatz zu Deutschland sieht die australische Regierung - ebenfalls Vertragsstaat der Streubomben-Konvention - mit dem Verbot der menschenverachtenden Waffen auch die Investitionen in ihre Hersteller als verboten an. Deutschland sollte sich ein Beispiel nehmen.
Quelle: CMC
Australian asset manager AMP announced the adoption of a new framework for responsible investments last week. Under this framework, producers of cluster munitions, landmines, biological and chemical weapons will be excluded from AMP's investments, because "their products indiscriminately kill through normal use (including during peacetime) and their use leaves a legacy of significant and specific danger for civilians", and because they are prohibited by international conventions.
Australia has joined the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) which comprehensively bans the use, production, stockpiling and trasfer of these weapons. The Convention also prohibits assistance with these acts. Australia has stated that "the intentional provision of financial assistance to an entity so that the entity can develop or produce cluster munitions will amount to an offence."
Since any investment in companies that produce cluster munitions can contribute to the production of these weapons, it is crucial that financial institutions adopt comprehensive policies that prohibit investments in producers of cluster munitions, and that they apply them to all types of investments, to make sure that no money goes to the producers of these inhumane and internationally banned weapons.
"We are not prepared to deliver investment returns to customers at any cost to society", AMP stated in their media release. Cluster munitions are banned because they mainly kill and maim civillians - both during conflict and months, years, sometimes decades after.
AMP says it will be disinvesting approximately 130 million Australian dollar from manufacturers of cluster munitions and landmines.
Lesen Sie weiter
Neuigkeiten
Nein zu Streubomben!
Spenden Sie jetzt für unseren Einsatz gegen Streubomben! Verhindern Sie, dass noch mehr Kinder wie Mohamed schwer verletzt oder gar getötet werden. Retten Sie Leben und verhindern Sie bleibende Behinderungen.