No Go area 5: Free flowing rivers explains why it is important for banks and financiers to prohibit direct and indirect financing to harmful activities which negatively impact or alter free flowing rivers. The paper offers useful lessons and key takeaways on how the international banking sector can establish strong water and exclusionary policies to protect free flowing rivers and the communities reliant on them.

No Go area 4: Primary and vulnerable secondary forests details how banks and financiers are driving forest degradation and deforestation by financing sectors tied to high forest risks. The paper urges banks and financiers to stop financing deforestation and forest degradation by developing robust forest policies which also protect forest dwelling local and Indigenous communities.

No Go area 3: Key Biodiversity Areas and habitats with endangered and endemic speciescalls on banks and financiers to prohibit direct and indirect financing to activities and projects which may harm these critical areas.

No Go area 2: Nationally recognized areas calls on banks and financiers to protect nationally and sub-nationally recognized areas, such as parks, reserves, memorials, monuments, preserves, among others, by prohibiting direct and indirect financing to activities and projects which may harm these areas. This paper provides key lessons on the risks associated with investing in nationally recognized areas, as well as on how banks and financiers can do more to protect these areas from unsustainable development and projects.