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'Survive and thrive': Over 600 top businesses launch new network in bid to bolster climate resilience
'Survive and thrive': Over 600 top businesses launch new network in bid to bolster climate resilience

A new group bringing together businesses with revenues totaling over $3tr and around 10 million employees has pledged to work to build resilience to the climate crisis and other potential economic shocks

  • Management
  • 25 February 2021
HSBC, Barclays, NatWest join Prince of Wales' net zero banking task force
HSBC, Barclays, NatWest join Prince of Wales' net zero banking task force

Executives from likes of Bank of America, BNP Paribas, Macquarie, Lloyds, and Citi also join effort to develop credible pathway to deliver a net zero banking sector

  • Investment
  • 18 February 2021
HSBC hires PwC climate change lead Celine Herweijer as group chief sustainability officer
HSBC hires PwC climate change lead Celine Herweijer as group chief sustainability officer

Herweijer will be tasked with leading the bank's push towards net zero

  • Work
  • 18 February 2021
Poll suggests top banks at risk of losing customers over fossil fuel financing
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

  • Investment
  • 29 January 2021
HSBC faces shareholder climate resolution from $2.4tr investor group
HSBC faces shareholder climate resolution from $2.4tr investor group

Group of 117 institutional investors file resolution urging bank to phase out fossil fuel financing in compliance with the Paris Agreement

  • Investment
  • 11 January 2021
Major banks 'co-responsible' for plastics crisis, first-of-its-kind investigation argues
Major banks 'co-responsible' for plastics crisis, first-of-its-kind investigation argues

The world’s biggest banks are indiscriminately funding firms responsible for devastating marine ecosystems and fuelling climate change via their plastics production, a new report from Portfolio Earth concludes

  • Investment
  • 07 January 2021
'Extremely encouraging': Why three-quarters of UK firms are now plotting net zero goals in 2021
'Extremely encouraging': Why three-quarters of UK firms are now plotting net zero goals in 2021

HSBC poll of 1,000 UK businesses indicates operational and supply chain net zero targets are heading into the mainstream

  • Investment
  • 17 December 2020
Barclays closes £400m green bond in support of energy efficient home mortgages
Barclays closes £400m green bond in support of energy efficient home mortgages

The bank has successfully closed its second green bond as it continues its strategy to deliver net zero financed emissions by 2050

  • Investment
  • 29 October 2020
HSBC pledges to reach net zero financed emissions by mid-century
HSBC pledges to reach net zero financed emissions by mid-century

But bank's commitment to decarbonising its financing by mid-century, on top of its supply chain and operations by 2030, is slammed by campaigners as "empty" and an "attempt to buy time" due to its failure to commit to divest from coal and oil and gas...

  • Investment
  • 09 October 2020
Majority of UK's biggest firms lack net zero strategies, report finds
Majority of UK's biggest firms lack net zero strategies, report finds

Analysis of FTSE 100 companies finds just 16 per cent have realistic decarbonisation strategies in place, yet 45 per cent are targeting net zero emissions

  • BusinessGreen
  • 23 September 2020
HSBC and Pollination Group plot 'natural capital' investment venture
HSBC and Pollination Group plot 'natural capital' investment venture

Banking giant aims to raise $1bn for its first fund, which will be followed by a carbon credit fund of up to $2bn

  • Investment
  • 27 August 2020
Defund and divest: Banks, investors, and pension funds urged to stop bankrolling meat and dairy
Defund and divest: Banks, investors, and pension funds urged to stop bankrolling meat and dairy

‘Big Livestock’ is just as damaging to the planet as the fossil fuel industry, campaigners warn, yet UK banks continue to be among the sector's largest creditors, pouring tens of billions into carbon-intensive companies fuelling deforestation

  • Investment
  • 13 July 2020
HSBC: Companies focused on climate change 'outperformed' as virus spread
HSBC: Companies focused on climate change 'outperformed' as virus spread

Research note suggests companies with strong ESG credentials are proving more resilient than their peers to coronavirus turmoil

  • Investment
  • 01 April 2020
'Time to pull the plug': Is pressure on coal-investing banks starting to deliver results?
'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

  • Investment
  • 02 March 2020
'They know exactly how this ends': Top UK banks slammed for £25bn coal funding since 2015
'They know exactly how this ends': Top UK banks slammed for £25bn coal funding since 2015

Data from Greenpeace shows HSBC, Barclays, RBS, and Standard Chartered have collectively provided £25bn to companies with new coal plant plans since 2015

  • Investment
  • 05 December 2019
Survey: Nearly half of businesses plan to increase spend on environmental sustainability
Survey: Nearly half of businesses plan to increase spend on environmental sustainability

HSBC survey of 2,500 businesses finds efficiency, competition, regulation, and potential for growth are proving major drivers of sustainability investment

  • Investment
  • 22 July 2019
'Tipping point?' HSBC launches green finance range for businesses
'Tipping point?' HSBC launches green finance range for businesses

New suite of products includes a Green Loan, a Green Revolving Credit Facility and a Green Hire Purchase, Lease and Asset loan - BusinessGreen talks to sustainable finance lead Rob King to get the low-down

  • Investment
  • 03 July 2019
'Enticing proposition': HSBC and Walmart launch green finance programme to drive carbon cuts in retail supply chain
'Enticing proposition': HSBC and Walmart launch green finance programme to drive carbon cuts in retail supply chain

Under the programme Walmart will offer its suppliers favourable financing rates in return for progress on cutting emissions

  • Investment
  • 18 April 2019
Bloomberg, AXA, HSBC, Macquarie CEOs launch climate finance drive
Bloomberg, AXA, HSBC, Macquarie CEOs launch climate finance drive

Climate Finance Leadership Initiative will seek to raise private capital towards tackling climate change ahead of critical UN summit in September

  • Politics
  • 18 January 2019
Investors worth $5tr in assets pledge to back 'just transition' guidelines
Investors worth $5tr in assets pledge to back 'just transition' guidelines

Guide to help investors link worker and social considerations with climate and low carbon investment policies formally launches at COP24

  • Investment
  • 06 December 2018
Facebook's new King's Cross HQ secures UK's first 'green loan'
Facebook's new King's Cross HQ secures UK's first 'green loan'

Wells Fargo, HSBC UK and Helaba provide £400m loan in accordance with new Green Loan Principles

  • Investment
  • 06 December 2018
Survey: A third of firms worldwide targeting more sustainable supply chains
Survey: A third of firms worldwide targeting more sustainable supply chains

New HSBC study suggests growing trend as firms step up efforts to overhaul supply chains to boost ethical and environmental performance

  • Supply chain
  • 04 December 2018
Green GB Week: Big business beefs up climate action
Green GB Week: Big business beefs up climate action

30 of the UK's largest companies unveil fresh pledges to tackle climate change in support of government's Green GB Week

  • Carbon Accounting
  • 16 October 2018
Are climate-related food price hikes already starting to bite?
Are climate-related food price hikes already starting to bite?

HSBC Global Research paper points to rising wheat prices linked to lower harvests that have resulted from weather volatility

  • Supply chain
  • 09 August 2018
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