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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

More than half of commitment earmarked to support low carbon transition, with remainder aimed at sustainable agriculture, recycling, conservation and other sustainable businesses

Bishops, Catholic banks worth €7.5bn, humanitarian group Caritas Internationalis and others in the Catholic hierarchy announce plans to drop investments in high carbon energy