That is why, according to the WWF, Rabobank must come up with real solutions and not put farmers at risk. In conversation with Trouw, director Rens van Tilburg of the Sustainable Finance Lab at Utrecht University says that although the bank has adhered to the rules for years and that the government has always postponed measures, the bank also has its own responsibility. “If Rabobank had made a different choice ten years ago, the nitrogen crisis would now be less severe and there would be fewer angry farmers.”
Rabobank regrets its role in the nitrogen crisis: ‘We acted differently in the past with knowledge of today’
