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French banking giant to end coal financing in Europe by 2030 and sets new renewable energy investment target of €18bn by 2021

Around 85 per cent of the top companies in the UK do not yet have adequate climate strategies in place to keep the planet within safe global warming limits, EcoAct report shows

More than 130 major banks holding assets of $47tr pledge to align strategies with the Paris Agreement and UN Sustainable Development Goals

We should empower our central bank to go further in steering capital flows towards the low-carbon economy, argues Positive Money's executive director Fran Boait

BNP Paribas' Bob Hawley reveals the work BNP Paribas is doing to address SDG1, the target to end poverty

Banking giant to publish new independently-verified climate strategy aligned with the Paris Agreement in 2020

All the need-to-know green business news from around the world this week

Banking plan will kick start Labour's 'Green Industrial Revolution', Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell claims

E3G report analyses the world's six main development banks and finds many of their climate strategies wanting

Bank announces new policy as WWF poll shows seven in 10 consumers would consider ditching banks that fund environmentally damaging projects in World Heritage sites