Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The real question is, are the world’s banks ready to fund the development of renewable technologies at scale, and updating all the infrastructure in between? And which banks will take the lead? . Corporate Knights researchers ranked 60 banks for which they found quantifiable sustainable-revenue data from an initial pool of 91 banks.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 6, 2025

Bank company blog A safe, affordable home helps children, families and communities thrive. Bank Community Possible program supports nonprofit organizations focused on creating stable, healthy home environments as part of its unified giving and employee engagement platform. Bank employees to volunteer in the communities they call home.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

A coalition of environmental groups is calling on the federal government to regulate climate commitments made by banks and other financial institutions to avoid greenwashing and accelerate change. . Treasury Department. .

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

New research reveals that banks are doing little to finance a low-carbon future, while investing trillions in multinational oil companies, some of which have doubled their profits in the last year. During that timeframe, the banks continued to pour $2.3 billion in 2016 and $34.5 billion in 2016 and $34.5 org, on his website.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 6, 2024

A new report renders a damning portrait of Canada’s Big Five banks on their path to net-zero emissions by 2050. The Big Five banks have taken little voluntary action to align their business practices with their own net-zero commitments,” states the report by InfluenceMap , a global corporate research think tank based in London.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

New Greening Cash Action report details how firms hold 'major lever' that could ensure banks use companies' cash to support wider climate goals and accelerate the green finance transition.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Goldman Sachs has chosen to exit the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), ESG Today has confirmed, marking the first high profile departure from the UN-backed coalition of banks dedicated to advancing global net zero goals through their financing activities.

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3BL Media

MARCH 21, 2025

The secondhand goods broker Bank & Vogue is demonstrating that's possible by working with big brands to create products out of upcycled fabrics, like Coach's new repurposed denim bag. This project prolongs the life of jeans that are not fit for resale, said Steven Bethell, co-founder of Bank & Vogue.

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3BL Media

MARCH 3, 2025

Cynthia Valenti, Mortgage Production Manager for Regions Bank This is more than just a house; its a home. A foundation for a brighter future, said Cynthia Valenti, Mortgage Production Manager for Regions Bank. Regions Bank supplied a first mortgage of $161,000 and with the city paying the closing costs, Ms.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Talk of where banks do and don’t put their money doesn’t usually make the red carpet. In the fight against climate change, banks can be seen as villains – but also, depending on where they invest their money, heroes. This year, the study wrested sustainability-based data out of 87 banks participating in the U.N.-organized

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Banks are shelling out more than US$500 billion a year to finance the largest contributors to climate change in the Global South, a region that is especially vulnerable to the roiling weather disasters gripping the planet. It found that banks have provided an estimated $3.2

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 8, 2024

One of Australia's oldest operating coal generators has been refused bank guarantees and is seeking a crucial rule change or exemption to allow it to continue operating. The post One of Australia’s oldest coal generators refused bank guarantees, operating status under threat appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We should thank central banks for improving our understanding of climate change data. But they need to more faster and more forcefully to gather more rigorous and comparable data.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 27, 2025

Bank company blog U.S. Bank is supporting the FireAid benefit concert on Thursday, Jan. Bank donated tickets to members of the Los Angeles Fire Department, city of Los Angeles, and impacted U.S. Bank employees and small business clients. Originally published on U.S. It also allows U.S. Additionally, U.S.

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Renew Economy

JANUARY 15, 2024

Federal and New South Wales governments tip $206m into energy upgrades for social housing, and launch Solar Banks scheme for homes unable to access solar. The post Solar banks and efficiency upgrades promise to address energy inequality appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 12, 2024

In 2022, the Canadian Competition Bureau launched an investigation into whether the Royal Bank of Canada’s advertisements amounted to greenwashing. Now it might be the Ontario Securities Commission’s turn to look into the bank’s green claims. And that’s a problem, Price says. “We

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2025

Computers & peripherals mfg $366,926 12% 728:1 50% 76% 0% C 1.5C, SBTi 80 52 Investec Ltd Sandton, South Africa Banks $2,308,452 6% 48:1 58% 4% N.A. C NZIA, NZAO 82 Bank of Montreal Montreal, Canada Banks $1,670,219 8% 61:1 46% 7% N.A. Banks $2,854,401 8% 46:1 50% 4% N.A. Banks $303,387 9% 152:1 33% 3% N.A.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 15, 2024

Wading into this hot-button arena is an institution that has generally kept quiet on this front: a new paper by the World Bank lays out a roadmap for how the world can substantially reduce the emissions from food systems partly by redirecting the subsidies given to the meat and dairy industries.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 18, 2023

All federally regulated financial institutions, including banks and insurance companies, will be required to participate during 2024 in an echo of a pilot project conducted with similar methodology last year with a handful of financial institutions volunteering.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 8, 2023

Following a few foundational principles, green banks can boost financing for climate priorities while remaining financially viable and not creating housing debt owners can’t repay.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A recent analysis finds obvious environmental and social risks remain unaccounted for in many countries' central banking and supervision regulation.

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Renew Economy

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Two of the five Australian banks remaining in the Net Zero Bank Alliance are sending mixed signals about their future involvement after Macquarie pulled out. The post “War on woke banks:” Macquarie joins mass exit from net zero alliance. Will Australia’s Big Four follow suit? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 3, 2024

Last month there was a rare meeting, where the chief executives of Canada’s five largest banks testified before Parliament about their climate commitments. Policymakers confronted the banks’ credibility on their stated climate targets. Canada should follow suit.

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3BL Media

APRIL 18, 2024

(Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida issued the following news release.) April 18, 2024 /3BL/ - Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida recently received a $27,000 grant from Duke Energy Foundation through the Powerful Communities program. Funding expands hunger relief capabilities in central Florida ORLANDO, Fla.,

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 13, 2025

In Kenya , off-grid solar is fuelling the continents mobile banking revolution, enabling people to power their phones and participate in the digital economy. The World Bank projects that mini-grids localized, independent power networks capable of supplying entire villages could provide electricity to 380 million Africans by 2030.

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Renew Economy

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The post Solar farm and battery emerged from rhombus of regret with bank finance and a construction plan appeared first on RenewEconomy. Financial close has been reached for a long awaited solar and battery project pitched originally for a particularly weak part of the grid.

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3BL Media

APRIL 4, 2025

About Fifth Third Fifth Third is a bank thats as long on innovation as it is on history. based banks to have been named among Ethispheres Worlds Most Ethical Companies for several years. Fifth Third Bank, National Association is a federally chartered institution. Fifth Third is one of the few U.S.-based Member FDIC.

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ESG Today

MARCH 24, 2025

Real estate and investment management-focused services provider JLL announced today the acquisition of renewable energy-focused investment banking firm Javelin Capital, in a move described by the company as aimed at expanding its U.S.

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Renew Economy

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

NSW announces interim CEO and investment mandate for newly formed "green bank", with the focus on big and community batteries, pumped hydro and VPPs. The post NSW green bank to target batteries, pumped hydro and VPPs to fill gaps in transition from coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Renew Economy

AUGUST 28, 2024

The post New Zealand green bank backs five solar farms with a total capacity of more than 1GW appeared first on RenewEconomy. New Zealand Green Investment Finance commits $NZ78 million to support the development of five projects being developed by Far North Solar Farm.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 18, 2022

The World Bank is teaming up with Bram Cohen’s San Francisco startup to prove that cryptocurrency can be part of the solution, not a problem, for climate change.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Palo Alto Networks, Burton Snowboards, Lush Cosmetics and Seventh Generation are scrutinizing the impact financial services have on their climate goals.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 16, 2025

Energy and automation digital solutions provider Schneider Electric and the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) announced today a new partnership, with Schneider Electric becoming the first global sustainability consultants to join the PCAF accredited partnership program, aimed at supporting banks and investors to measure and report (..)

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GreenBiz

JULY 1, 2024

The company discovered that the cash on its balance sheet was generating 9,000 metric tons of CO2.

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GreenBiz

MAY 7, 2024

Accelerating the growth of the electric vehicle market requires capital to fund manufacturing, infrastructure and innovation.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 27, 2024

Corporate cash deposits are a huge source of carbon emissions, and sustainability leaders need to engage their bankers.

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3BL Media

APRIL 24, 2025

In honor of Financial Literacy Month, the bank is launching a comprehensive financial wellness blitz that will continue throughout April. The bank provides easily accessible, no-cost financial education courses to anyone, whether theyre a Regions customer or not. Financial wellness is firmly rooted in the culture at Regions.

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