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banks

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

Investment

'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

clock 29 August 2023 • 3 min read
Circular credit cards: Mastercard, HSBC, and TerraCycle launch card recycling scheme

Recycling

Circular credit cards: Mastercard, HSBC, and TerraCycle launch card recycling scheme

The initiative will be piloted across select HSBC banks where customers can securely recycle old cards in-branch

clock 22 June 2023 • 2 min read
'The Carbon Bankroll': Are businesses ignoring how their cash is contributing to climate change?

Investment

'The Carbon Bankroll': Are businesses ignoring how their cash is contributing to climate change?

New study reveals that for some of the world's largest businesses their biggest source of carbon emissions is to be found in their cash reserves

clock 18 May 2022 • 6 min read
Sir Christopher Hohn urges shareholders to vote against climate-laggard bank directors

Investment

Sir Christopher Hohn urges shareholders to vote against climate-laggard bank directors

Billionaire hedge fund manager says banks committed to net zero while lobbying against climate regulations are guilty of ‘greenwashing’

clock 25 March 2022 • 3 min read
'Further work required': Bank of England raises alarm over financial industry's inconsistent approach to climate risk

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'Further work required': Bank of England raises alarm over financial industry's inconsistent approach to climate risk

Prudential Regulation Authority puts action on climate risk among its top priorities for global banks in 2022

clock 13 January 2022 • 2 min read
'Adapt or die': Environment Agency chief urges bankers to stop investing in fossil fuels

Investment

'Adapt or die': Environment Agency chief urges bankers to stop investing in fossil fuels

Sir James Bevan argues net zero transition is set to dramatically accelerate in the wake of the COP26 Climate Summit

clock 23 November 2021 • 2 min read

Investment

Poll suggests top banks at risk of losing customers over fossil fuel financing

One in 10 consumers could leave their high street bank if made aware of the institution's investments in coal, oil, and gas, survey suggests

clock 29 January 2021 • 2 min read

Energy

Net zero for banks is climate science not rocket science

Until British banks rule out all fossil fuel funding, their climate plans will remain inadequate, argues Market Forces' campaigner Adam McGibbon

clock 08 December 2020 • 4 min read

Investment

Citi to disclose loan portfolio CO2 as it pledges $250bn green spending blitz

Bank to report and disclose the emissions tied to its lending portfolios as it joins Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF)

clock 30 July 2020 • 2 min read

Investment

'Time to pull the plug': Is pressure on coal-investing banks starting to deliver results?

High street banks such as Barclays, HSBC and Standard Chartered are facing growing pressure from activists, shareholders and potentially regulators over their links to to coal and potential stranded asset risk

clock 02 March 2020 • 7 min read
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'We are going to do things differently': Claire Coutinho rails against net zero 'religion'

02 October 2023 • 5 min read
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'Prosperity requires stability': 1,800 business figures call on government to deliver green policy ambition

03 October 2023 • 11 min read
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Study: Offshore wind supply chains could grow economy by £92bn by 2040

03 October 2023 • 3 min read
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BeZero Carbon launches 'world first' rating system for 'ex-ante' carbon credits

03 October 2023 • 3 min read
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