Government 'green finance strategy' includes £5 million green home finance fund.
… Government gambles on green finance Emily Beament | 2nd July 2019 News City Of London Finance Net Zero Climate Breakdown ydmqqjwj.jpeg Government 'green finance strategy' includes £5 million green …
Orthodox economics and finance have promoted a false account of money, writes Ann Pettifor. Change is necessary and possible. But it will come only through a revolution in the general public's understanding.
… Breaking the despotic power of finance Ann Pettifor | 14th March 2014 News Finance Green Economy money-trp.png Orthodox economics and finance have promoted a false account of …
Poor countries are being left with little idea about what money is available to help them cope with climate change because of murky accounting and a lack of transparency by rich countries, according to an Oxfam study.
… COP19: Poor countries in the dark on climate finance Oliver Tickell | 14th November 2013 News COP19 Climate Change Finance Green Economy cop19-yeb-sano.jpg Poor … hundreds of billions of dollars in climate finance saved the event from total disaster. …
Some banks are beginning to exclude certain fossil fuels, but its too little and too slow. But it's clear what banks must do and the path they should take to get there.
… 2018 News Bank Fossil Fuels Fossil Free Finance Thought Leaders coal-banner-cut.jpg … to rush out a policy excluding some project finance for tar sands and the Arctic before … responsible for shaping policy on fossil fuel finance are accountable to the Board of …
HSBC claims to exclude coal but they've left the door open on extraction in Vietnam.
… in Vietnam. HSBC stunned the world of climate finance campaigners with their new policy on finance for coal, tar sands and Arctic … most carbon intensive fossil fuels from its finance regimen. This came in the same few …
With a bigger spotlight than ever on the role of banks in funding fossil fuel projects we report on unethical and environmentally damaging investments by Barclays, HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)
… website: ‘Since 2006, we have provided more finance to wind power projects than any other … has been involved in billions of pounds of finance to the fossil fuel sector, including … communities. RBS also provided £7 billion in finance to nine companies with tar sands …
Banks are just as much to blame for the climate crisis as fossil fuel companies and corrupt governments. Campaigning for fossil free finance must be the climate movement's next step, writes CHRIS SALTMARSH
… for climate change - and demand fossil free finance Chris Saltmarsh | 4th September 2018 Comment Fossil Free Finance Climate Change Banks Fossil Fuels … governments. Campaigning for fossil free finance must be the climate movement's next …
Barclays Bank was the supporting partner for the UK Pavillion at the COP23 climate negotiations in Bonn. The exhibit is supposed to 'showcase the UK’s role in tackling climate change'. But Barclays has been a key contributor to the current climate crisis, financing fossil fuel extraction to the tune of $4bn in 2016 alone. KATIE HODGETTS calls out the bank, and the government.
… the Paris Agreement negotiations’. Finance agenda This article spoke of the … at COP23, co-hosting the Future of Green Finance drinks reception.’ And what did … climate change. I recognize how the green finance agenda will and should play an …
Banks like Barclays won't drop their investments in fracking and other fossil fuels if we ask nicely.
… time. As soon as possible.” Fossil fuel finance Some campaigners suspected that … popularity falling off a cliff edge in the finance and insurance sectors and its … budge on its deep commitment to fossil fuel finance. Bank accounts Alongside the carrot of …
The governor of the Bank of England recently argued that the risk to the stability of the financial system from climate change is a responsibility of central banks, writes Matthias Kroll. They can begin by using QE - 'quantitative easing' - to finance the Green Climate Fund, and so stimulate the economy, rescue the climate, and save the global financial system.
… Matthias Kroll | 25th November 2015 Comment Finance Climate Change Green Economy Economics … by using QE - 'quantitative easing' - to finance the Green Climate Fund, and so … Buying bonds to create new liquidity. To finance the Green Climate Fund, central banks …
A powerful call has gone out the the US Export-Import Bank not to finance a massive coal mine, railway, port terminal and dredged 'canal' through Australia's Great Barrier Reef with $1 billion in loans and guarantees.
… US tax dollars must not finance $1bn Great Barrier Reef destruction! … 2015 News Coal Fossil Fuels Australia USA Finance Climate Change Natural World Oceans … gone out the the US Export-Import Bank not to finance a massive coal mine, railway, port …
Since the last big climate conference in 2009 the world's biggest private sector banks have provided more than nine more money to fossil fuels than to renewable energy - showing up their oft-repeated 'green finance' promises as little more than PR puff.
… | 3rd November 2015 News Climate Change Finance Unfccc COP15 COP21 coal-banner-cut.jpg … energy - showing up their oft-repeated 'green finance' promises as little more than PR puff. … same period they provided just $98 billion in finance to the renewables sector. The news …
CARE calculates after Paris Agreement money paid from rich nations to poor for climate breakdown adaptation is just $9.7 billion.
… to mobilise $50 billion in annual adaptation finance by 2020. Official figures from the … (UNEP) assessing progress made in adaptation finance. John Nordbo, from CARE Denmark, is an … down by failing to deliver enough adaptation finance, but they have tried to give the …
Climate targets will remain a pipe dream as long as financiers fill the boardrooms of fossil fuel companies, and oil barons are rewarded with prestigious positions in our financial system.
… 2020 News Fossil Fuels Divestment Barclays Bp Finance Editor’s Picks Barclays Climate … companies keeps on spinning. Tushar Morzaria, finance director at Barclays’ Group, has … Barclays updated its coal policy to exclude finance for new coal projects, but it wasn’t …
The UK's 'Green Deal' energy efficiency scheme was a massive failure, writes Sue Roberts. But few knew just how bad until the NAO's report - which reveals that its main effect was to line the pockets of the Big Six energy companies, load the public with expensive loans, create a tangle of red tape, and engineer the collapse of the UK's nascent energy efficiency sector.
… Politics Energy Efficiency Corporations UK Finance insulation-cut.jpg The UK's 'Green … (NAO) on the Green Deal and the Green Deal Finance Company make shocking reading. … financially from households using Green Deal finance." Reading these two reports it rapidly …
True levels of climate finance from rich to developing countries may be just 19-22.5 billion US dollars.
… 2020 | News Climate Breakdown Oxfam Climate Finance Organisation For Economic Co-operation … africa-firewood.jpg True levels of climate finance from rich to developing countries may … aid agency estimates true levels of climate finance may be just 19-22.5 billion US dollars …
World Bank President Jim Kim talks a good talk on cutting support to fossil fuels. But what the bank does, writes Victoria Seabrook, is a whole other story. Not only is the WB Group still pouring money into the sector, but its funding doubled between 2011 and 2015.
… Seabrook DeSmog.uk | 18th April 2016 News Finance Fossil Fuels Climate Change Emissions … the World Bank Group's total fossil fuel finance has trended upwards, with finance into the billions of dollars nearly …
France, Germany and other wealthy countries have positive policies on climate change, writes Steven Herz. So why are they handing out back door financing for new coal power stations abroad via 'export credits'? Over $5 billion from EU countries since 2007 ...
… Steven Herz | 11th June 2014 Comment Coal Finance Climate Change Trade Corporations EU … to stop exporting #climate chaos and #endcoalfinance - so OECD governments know that this … credits and guarantees for #coal! #endcoalfinance bit.ly/1hJSyFs - #Coal is not …
Fair taxes on the UK’s biggest polluters could have raised up to £23bn last year to combat the climate crisis – Oxfam
… to a report published by Oxfam today. This finance could be used for much needed climate … needs to raise large sums of money to finance the UK’s transition away from fossil … looks to a dwindling aid budget to finance escalating global needs, billionaires …
New rules come into force today that require big UK companies to make their carbon emissions public but - explains Miriam Ross - this won't put an end to the environmental degradation and breach of human rights caused by the UK-financed coal mining boom in Kalimantan, Borneo.......
… UK-financed coal mining is devastating Indonesian … and breach of human rights caused by the UK-financed coal mining boom in Kalimantan, … East Kalimantan, is mined by companies part-financed by UK banks. The top 5 banks, HSBC, …
World Bank projects have left a worldwide trail of evictions, displacements, rapes, murders, forest destruction, greenhouse-gas-belching fossil fuel projects, and destruction of farmland and water sources, writes Pete Dolack. But even as internal reports admit the Bank's wrongdoing, it is asserting its immunity from legal action as terrorised communities seek redress in the courts.
… Pete Dolack | 23rd March 2017 News Law Finance USA Honduras India dinant-cut.jpg … palm oil plantations in Honduras that it has financed. The lawsuit, Juana Doe v. International Finance Corporation , alleges: "Since the …
Banks must stop funding in climate breakdown driving fossil fuels as the world recovers from the coronavirus pandemic.
… in 2015 – and calls on them to phase out finance for all oil, coal and gas projects … in February 2020 that it would no longer finance projects sourcing new oil and gas … standard policy permits the global bank to finance coal plants in Bangladesh, Indonesia …
The UK government has spent nearly £4 billion pounds of UK public funding on fossil fuel infrastructure in the global south since the Paris Agreement was signed.
… of fossil fuel support provided by UK Export Finance (UKEF), it rises to £3.875 billion … to privatise the Nigerian energy system, financed by UK aid and run by Adam Smith … step would be to end all overseas fossil fuel finance and put forward a plan to massively …
The global banks financing industries driving biodiversity collapse.
… warns. The banks named as providing the most finance to sectors that are the primary … average, each of the 50 banks was linked to finance with biodiversity loss risk of $52 … reduce their impact on nature and stop finance for new fossil fuels, deforestation, …