Investment banking

Desmos Capital: Chris Skidmore launches 'boutique' bank to support net zero scale ups

Investment

Desmos Capital: Chris Skidmore launches 'boutique' bank to support net zero scale ups

New investment bank to raise private capital to fund firms focused on future clean technologies and 'transforming the world’

clock 19 July 2024 • 3 min read
'Banking on Climate Chaos': How banks have provided fossil fuel firms with almost $7tr since the Paris Agreement

Investment

'Banking on Climate Chaos': How banks have provided fossil fuel firms with almost $7tr since the Paris Agreement

Fifteenth annual Banking on Climate Chaos study finds world's biggest banks gave more than $705bn to fossil fuel firms in 2023 alone, despite many being committed to reaching net zero emissions

clock 13 May 2024 • 11 min read

Investment

Wells Fargo becomes latest banking giant to set 2050 net zero financed emissions goal

Investment bank says it will set interim emissions reduction targets for high-carbon portfolios by end of 2022

clock 09 March 2021 • 4 min read

Investment

Morgan Stanley targets 'zero financed emissions' by 2050 in US first

But investment bank highlights lack of consistent CO2 methodologies for finance as 'critical challenge' for establishing near-term emissions reduction targets for its portfolio

clock 22 September 2020 • 3 min read