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

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. .

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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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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The federal Competition Bureau’s decision to investigate charges of misleading advertising against the Royal Bank of Canada is a sign that federal regulators are paying closer attention to the climate crisis and its causes, says the environmental law charity that filed the case.

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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 19, 2022

The bank’s policy change is an important signal about the need to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, but it’s not nearly as sweeping as the phase-out of all oil and gas projects climate activists would like to see. Matt Price, director of corporate engagement for Investors for Paris Compliance. It’s a hugely important symbolic step.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 14, 2024

The 60 largest banks in the world have provided US$6.9 trillion in financing to the fossil fuel industry in the eight years since the Paris Agreement was signed, according to a comprehensive new report. But she says it’s too early to conclude that banks have reached peak fossil fuel financing. based bank JP Morgan Chase.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 7, 2025

JPMorganChase has chosen to exit the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, ESG Today has confirmed, marking the latest in a rapid-fire series of departures from the UN-backed coalition of banks dedicated to advancing global net zero goals through their financing activities.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Recent months have seen major moves on climate action by some of the world’s largest private banks, including JPMorgan Chase, HSBC and Morgan Stanley. Looking across their investments in different sectors and regions, more banks are considering how to reduce the carbon intensity of entire portfolios over time. Unpacking commitments.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 21, 2025

Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG Sustainable development bank Oesterreichische Kontrollbank (OeKB) or Austrian Control Bank is a special-purpose financial institution owned by Austrias main banks. Reaching net-zero as we grow remains vital. Go-Ahead Group Ltd Net-zero-aligned transporter Go-Ahead is a U.K.-based

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), Hong Kong’s central banking institution released a series of principles for banks on planning for the transition to a net zero economy, including ensuring that setting objectives aligned with a net zero transition, and embedding transition considerations into internal processes.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The financial services firm recently completed the purchase of the first tranche of reef credits and plans to continue buying them as part of its net-zero commitment. These nature-based solutions are going to become increasingly important," said Hamish Kelly, managing director of global banking, Australia at HSBC. "We

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ESG Today

MARCH 18, 2025

Northern Europe-based financial services company Nordea announced that it has signed a deal with Norwegian startup Inherit Carbon Solutions to remove at least 68,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, providing carbon removal credits to the bank starting next year.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 25, 2024

HSBC announced today the launch of its first Net Zero Transition Plan, outlining the global bank’s strategy to finance and support the transition to net zero, and to meet the climate goals it has set over the past few years. Click here to access the HSBC Net Zero Transition Plan.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 30, 2022

DESCRIPTION: The race is on, proclaims the United Nations, to create a Net Zero economy (same amount of greenhouse gas /GHG emissions removed from the atmosphere as produced). Public conversations about Net Zero are usually about “fossil fuels vs. renewables” and the impact of each category on climate change.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 28, 2023

This cannot continue if we are realistically going to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement and keep global warming below 1.5 ° C. The new OSFI guideline will require banks and insurance companies to disclose the financial risks they face in a world hit by climate change impacts and shifting toward a low-carbon future.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

JPMorgan Chase announced updates to its interim financed emissions reduction targets for three carbon-intensive sectors, including Oil & Gas, Electric Power and Auto Manufacturing, raising the ambition for each to align with pathways required to achieve net zero by 2050.

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3BL Media

MAY 24, 2024

May 24, 2024 /3BL/ - In a notable move for the 2024 proxy season, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander and New York City Public Pension Boards (NYCERS) submitted six shareholder proposals asking banks to disclose a novel metric for assessing their progress towards their net zero targets and contributions to the clean energy transition.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 5, 2022

International bank and financial services company Standard Chartered announced today that it has appointed Kerry Constabile to lead the company’s net zero and sustainability strategy teams. Constabile joins from Google, where she led the company’s sustainability strategy and company-wide climate plans.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 17, 2022

In a report released March 16, the Public Policy Forum laid out a “leadership blueprint” for Canada’s net-zero transition that urges the federal government to help finance the sector’s efforts to reduce emissions. However, he added, the decarbonization effort must speed up. We’re just not moving with the haste we need to move.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 26, 2024

New figures showed that carbon emissions in 2022 fell to “significantly lower” than pre-pandemic levels in 2019, giving hope that Canada can meet its net-zero commitments. C 27 49 BGIS Real estate & leasing C+ SBTi 28 33* Sun Life Financial Inc Insurance companies C+ NZAM 29 31* Desjardins Group Banks C SBTi, 1.5°C,

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The Science Based Targets initiative ’s (SBTi) much-anticipated Financial Institutions Net Zero (FINZ) standard is expected to place banks under more pressure to increase their climate-related transparency and ambition.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 26, 2023

It also means cutting off financing for new fossil fuel projects, which HSBC (one of the largest banks in the world) and Lloyds (the largest domestic bank in the U.K.) We will know that the rest of the US$130-trillion GFANZ (Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero) coalition is serious when they follow suit.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Biden already has rejoined the Paris Agreement, committed to advocating for environmental justice and rolled out a government-wide focus on racial justice. They also have been long-term investors in community banks and credit unions that are addressing economic and racial inequality in urban, rural and Indigenous communities.

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ESG Today

MARCH 4, 2025

International banking group Standard Charteredannounced the release of its inaugural Transition Plan, outlining its detailed plan to achieve its climate goals, including its target to reach net zero emissions across its financing activities by 2050.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

For financial institutions such as banks, insurance companies and investment managers, scope 3 emissions from supply chains and lending/investment portfolios are often more complex than for other industries. South Pole can help you navigate the existing framework as well as the new net zero guidance (FINZ) which will replace it in Q4 2023.

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ESG Today

JULY 17, 2024

The bank also announced the appointment of former UK Member of Parliament Danny Alexander as CEO of the new business. In a LinkedIn post following the announcement, Guyett said: “We have a leading presence in the regions where infrastructure needs to be developed and financed to enable a just transition to a low carbon economy.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

In this Q&A, EY’s Ben Taylor highlights the developments most likely to shape and accelerate the net zero transition, as well as the climate-related investment strategies of asset owners and managers. ESG Investor: In what way did COP29 improve the likelihood of delivery of comprehensive, investible and Paris-compliant NDCs?

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Investors that have set net zero targets for their portfolios have been cautioned to carefully evaluate their positions in majority state-owned oil and gas laggards. The targets of 24 of the companies were found to not be aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Lenders are urged to end fossil fuel expansion and convert targets into “meaningful commitments” as US banks fall behind international peers. Action by banks to reach net zero emissions and meet climate goals is “insufficient”, according to two reports which also highlight significant gaps in the policies guiding the sector’s transition.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

Now they must wait to see how signatories to the Paris Agreement act on the commitments outlined in the official response to the Global Stocktake, as well as multiple other pledges announced across the two weeks before that final text was signed, sealed and gavelled. Some managers might not cover Scope 3 emissions,” he notes.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 6, 2022

Seven years ago, the probability of this happening was close to zero. “A C does not mean we have breached the iconic threshold of the Paris Agreement, but it does reveal that we are edging ever closer to a situation where 1.5°C This would include a dramatic scale-up in investments from commercial banks. The post With 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The UKs finance sector appears to see things differently, with its banks taking their lead from their American counterparts, while its institutional investors are increasingly turning their eyes to Europe.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 26, 2022

However, nuclear is a key technology in the corporation’s plan to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, says chief financial officer Aida Cipolla. Many large institutional investors such as pension funds and banks have targets to make their portfolios more sustainable, and green bonds are part of that mix. .

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 18, 2022

Approximately 90% of countries are now covered by some kind of net-zero target, as are hundreds of the largest publicly traded companies. In 2021, 60 of the Global 100 companies signed up to the Science Based Targets initiative, aligning their emissions reductions with the requirements of the Paris Agreement. C, SBTi A+.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 20, 2023

COP28 may have not delivered all it promised, but investors now have a clearer idea of how the path to net zero will impact their portfolios. The first-ever mention of “transitioning away from fossil fuels” in COP final text was regarded as a major milestone on the path to net zero, even by those who acknowledged its multiple caveats.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

UK bank Barclays announced a new policy significantly limiting its financing activities for some emissions intensive energy sectors, including ending financing for oil sands companies and projects, and accelerating its phase out of financing for coal-powered generation for clients in OECD economies.

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