'Climate safe banking': New guide targets indirectly financed emissions from cash holdings

Stuart Stone
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'Climate safe banking': New guide targets indirectly financed emissions from cash holdings

New Greening Cash Action guide details how firms hold 'major lever' that could ensure banks use companies' cash to support wider climate goals and accelerate the green finance transition

A new guide has set out how business leaders, chief financial officers, and sustainability managers can slash emissions generated through their corporate cash holdings and help accelerate the wider decarbonisation...

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