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China’s ecological and financial regulators have jointly published guidelines around climate change-related financing and investment. -
The threat to biodiversity is moving up the agenda of financial markets, but banks are woefully unprepared, a new study has found — in fact, they are actively financing what scientists believe is a mass extinction of species.
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An ESG think tank believes that the European Central Bank should drop Alberta’s euro bonds from its list of eligible marketable assets, as a punishment for its support for polluting industries. But while it is a laudable aim, it is not practicable.
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UK banks and building societies are struggling with difficult aspects of incorporating climate change into their risk management, as demanded by the regulator, a PwC survey has found. The answer to some of their problems could be a non-risk initiative: science-based targets.
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One by one, banks are taking responsibility to help fight climate change, by setting targets to eliminate carbon emissions from their whole financing portfolios by 2050. This will not suffice. Banks must learn a new way of interacting with clients.
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HSBC provided $1.8bn of financing to high carbon companies including Kepco, which is developing new coal plants, in just five deals in the past four months, as it prepared to announce its “net zero ambition” on October 9, an NGO has alleged.
