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How Your Organization Can Buy Paris Agreement-Verified Rainforest Carbon Credits for the First Time

GreenBiz

Date/Time: November 18, 2021 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT) As governments step up efforts to strengthen the Paris Agreement at COP26 and tackle the climate emergency, corporate action has never been more critical.

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How banks can accelerate net-zero emissions commitments

GreenBiz

On the eve of COP26, large banks have yet so shift fundamentally towards the Paris Agreement.

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Banks spending trillions to finance causes of climate crisis in Global South: report

Corporate Knights

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 It found that banks have provided an estimated $3.2

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Dutch Central Bank to Align Equity and Corporate Bond Portfolios with Paris Agreement Goals

ESG Today

De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), the central bank of the Netherlands, announced today a new commitment to align its reserves, including its investments in equities and corporate bonds with the Paris Agreement. Image: © De Nederlandsche Bank N.V.

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Bank financing for fossil fuels dips second year in a row

Corporate Knights

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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Investors crank up the heat on bank fossil fuel financing

Corporate Knights

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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Which banks are financing the clean energy transition?

Corporate Knights

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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