2004, Banking and Climate Change

Fifth Third’s 2022 Sustainability Report Earns Four MarCom Awards

3BL Media

DECEMBER 21, 2023

“Delivering on our sustainability strategy, priorities and commitments is key to our ability to continue generating long-term value to our stakeholders while building strong human relationships and connections with the community we serve,” said Kala Gibson, chief corporate responsibility officer, Fifth Third Bank. “I Member FDIC. # # #

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Fifth Third Bancorp 2021 Environmental, Social and Governance Report Earns Five MarCom Awards

3BL Media

JANUARY 3, 2023

Since its inception in 2004, MarCom has evolved into one of the largest, most-respected creative competitions in the world. As a Purpose-driven company our 2021 ESG Report reflects who we are and what we value,” said Tim Spence, president and CEO, Fifth Third Bank. “I About Fifth Third. Fifth Third is one of the few U.S.-based

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Banking Corporate Social Responsibility Climate Change Digitalization

Meet the women warrior accountants pushing the envelope on climate action

Corporate Knights

JUNE 27, 2023

Chauvin framed the most urgent issues facing the planet – climate change, waste, pollution, slave and child labour – as accounting failures. Likewise, the European Central Bank recently reported that “banks do not yet sufficiently incorporate climate risk into their stress-testing frameworks and internal models.”

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From the Fifth Third Bancorp 2021 ESG Report: A Leadership Message

3BL Media

JULY 5, 2022

We activate our purpose everyday through our core values and vision to be the one bank people most value and trust. We recognize that climate change is bigger than us and that the financial sector has an important role to play in addressing it. This was part of our deliberate multiyear strategy to reduce punitive consumer fees.

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COP27: A Breakthrough for People and Planet

3BL Media

DECEMBER 13, 2022

DESCRIPTION: The 27th United Nations (UN) Conference of the Parties (COP), which took place this November in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, marked a significant milestone in developing action against climate change. Climate change inequality, contributors and sufferers, has been a key agenda item at COP for many years.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Gutierrez joined NRG from Dynegy in 2004 as an energy portfolio director. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15. billion U.S. billion.

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Today’s Energy Crisis Is Very Different from the Energy Crisis of 2005

Gail Tverberg

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The Federal Reserve chose to fix the problem by raising the Federal Funds interest rate from 1.00% to 5.25% between June 30, 2004 and June 30, 2006. 1] The 2004 to 2006 interest rate hikes didn’t lead to lower oil prices until after July 2008. Inflation in food prices was especially a problem. Latest month shown is July 2022.

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Why raising interest rates to reduce inflation may work out very badly

Gail Tverberg

JULY 5, 2022

If central banks cut back future energy supplies using higher interest rates, we can expect to encounter major problems going forward. 3] We can look back and see how rising interest rates were used to slow the world economy in the 2004 to 2006 period, and how different the economic situation was then compared to now.

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The world’s self-organizing economy can be expected to act strangely, as energy supplies deplete

Gail Tverberg

JULY 28, 2022

GDP is as reported by the World Bank for 1990 through 2021 as of July 26, 2022; total energy consumption is as reported by BP in its 2022 Statistical Review of World Energy. World PPP GDP is data provided by the World Bank; world energy consumption is based on data of BP’s 2022 Statistical Review of World Energy.

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Private Equity Firms Are Paving the Way to a More Sustainable Future

Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

To illustrate, BlackRock, the world’s leading investment firm, with more than $7 trillion worth of assets under management, has announced that climate will play a central role in investment considerations. Banks are now providing more funding to clean sources of energy than to fossil fuels.

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Health leaders discuss Mechanisms and Coordination of Global Health Governance and Finance

Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Countries in the Asia-Pacific region that dealt with SARS in 2003-2004 were best prepared to respond to COVID-19, as their specific readiness plans resulted in lower burdens of disease and death even before vaccines were introduced in 2021. Dr. Uribe concluded by outlining the Bank’s main concerns.

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Running Short of Tailwinds for the Economy

Gail Tverberg

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Strangely enough, the economy seems to move from tailwind to tailwind, as new resources are discovered, as population expands, and as central banks figure out new ways to fix the economy. It appears to me that the temporary rise in short-term interest rates between 2004 and 2006 ultimately caused the Great Recession of 2007-2009.

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How cracks emerged in Africa's plan to plant a wall of trees across the continent

Corporate Knights

APRIL 17, 2023

More than you’d expect for someone who spends his time working on the impacts of biodiversity loss and climate change in his native Kenya. And certainly more than you’d expect for someone who had to leave his home in Trans-Nzoia County, on Kenya’s western border, because of flooding caused by the climate emergency.

Climate Change

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Mainstreaming Renewables in the Caribbean Energy Mix

Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 5, 2015

Adding to this challenge, most Caribbean nations spend as much of their national budgets on damage repair and adaptation to climate change risks as on imported fossil fuels. [2] Access to energy needs to be considered as an integral part of a climate resilient strategy." [7] Work on the project began in 2004.

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Fifth Third’s 2022 Sustainability Report Earns Four MarCom Awards

Fifth Third Bancorp 2021 Environmental, Social and Governance Report Earns Five MarCom Awards

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Meet the women warrior accountants pushing the envelope on climate action

From the Fifth Third Bancorp 2021 ESG Report: A Leadership Message

COP27: A Breakthrough for People and Planet

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

Today’s Energy Crisis Is Very Different from the Energy Crisis of 2005

Why raising interest rates to reduce inflation may work out very badly

The world’s self-organizing economy can be expected to act strangely, as energy supplies deplete

Private Equity Firms Are Paving the Way to a More Sustainable Future

Health leaders discuss Mechanisms and Coordination of Global Health Governance and Finance

Running Short of Tailwinds for the Economy

How cracks emerged in Africa's plan to plant a wall of trees across the continent

Mainstreaming Renewables in the Caribbean Energy Mix

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