'Common language': Bank of America calls for progress on green finance standards at COP26

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Bank of America's international president Bernard Mensah was speaking at BusinessGreen's Net Zero Festival today
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Bank of America's international president Bernard Mensah was speaking at BusinessGreen's Net Zero Festival today

Bank of America's Bernard Mensah tells Net Zero Festival improved standards, data, and reporting could unlock 'huge pools of capital' to accelerate decarbonisation efforts

The upcoming COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow presents a great opportunity to catalyse a major new wave of global investment in net zero infrastructure. That is the view of Bank of America's International...

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