Study: Development banks are backing clean energy, but are struggling to kick fossil fuel habit
Analysis of investments made by nine of the world's biggest development banks has found that they spent four times more on clean energy than fossil fuels in 2020
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) such as the World Bank and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development provided $3bn of funding for fossil fuels through the course of 2020, according to new...
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