Global banking giants sign up to climate principles

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Crédit Agricole, HSBC, Munich Re, Standard Chartered and Swiss Re first firms to sign up to standards that could see them refuse financing to projects that fail to disclose carbon emissions

Carbon intensive projects could be forced to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and adopt the cleanest technologies available, if they wish to secure financial backing from some of the world's largest...

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