DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2023

Four in five bank directors at the six largest banks in the U.S. The research raises fresh concerns about the extent of anti-environmental influence inside some of the nation’s most powerful boardrooms at a time when campaigners are pushing the banks to enact stronger environmental policies at their annual shareholder meetings.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Many major banks have set targets to reduce financed greenhouse gas emissions in their loan portfolios to zero by 2050 (also known as net zero targets). The guidance was developed in collaboration with a group of multinational banks with agricultural portfolios, but its information is useful beyond the largest banks.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Heading into fall, this batch of career updates from the worlds of sustainability and business is somewhat top-heavy. Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. Wed, 10/07/2020 - 02:01. Who's news. He's at the helm of Patagonia Works, the parent company.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 21, 2021

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are the ideals America needs to aspire toward, Marvin Owens, chief engagement officer at Impact Shares, said last week during a GreenFin 21 panel discussion. Authentic equitable business practices. In the aftermath of the George Floyd murder, hundreds of U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 9, 2020

Those types of deals often involve more collaboration, Kevin Smith, Lightsource's CEO for the Americas, told GTM. Those types of deals often involve more collaboration, Kevin Smith, Lightsource's CEO for the Americas, told GTM. solar market, even as the economy takes a significant downturn.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Corporations have used that to their advantage to become an important part of the tree planting business. Funding tree planting in rural areas across the globe was an easy way for businesses to invest in green initiatives and to win points with the general public. . But urban forestry has a different history.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

As climate change threatens agricultural production around the world, the agricultural finance institutions that work with farmers also face growing risk to their businesses — as well as untapped opportunities to help farmers prepare for climate impacts. Climate change will present risks and opportunities to agricultural finance institutions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Executives from likes of Bank of America, BNP Paribas, Macquarie, Lloyds, and Citi also join effort to develop credible pathway to deliver a net zero banking sector. Prince Charles said the financial services sector had "a vital role to play as a catalyst and driver for change across other industries".

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 18, 2020

ImpactAlpha, December 18 — Grameen America, the U.S. affiliate of Muhammad Yunus’ Grameen Bank, has been providing low-income women business owners with access. The post Grameen America raises $17.5 million for second microfinance fund appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Impact Alpha

APRIL 8, 2020

ImpactAlpha, April 29 – The Inter-American Development Bank has issued a $2 billion, five-year bond as part of its $12 billion COVID relief commitment. The post Inter-American Development Bank issues $2 billion bond for COVID relief appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2021

Banks recirculate deposited cash as loans — for cars, homes, even oil pipelines — and pay customers interest for the service. Banks lend out money, and it’s these loans that create the society in which we live," said co-founder Ravi Mikkelsen, who launched the service on January 12. "By Banking for clean energy.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Bank of America's Bernard Mensah tells Net Zero Festival improved standards, data, and reporting could unlock 'huge pools of capital' to accelerate decarbonisation efforts. The upcoming COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow presents a great opportunity to catalyse a major new wave of global investment in net zero infrastructure.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2021

Firm joins Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, and JPMorgan Chase in pledging to reduce its operations and activity in line with global climate goals. That plan will include interim emissions reduction targets for the carbon intensive sectors that the bank finances, such as energy and power, according to the update.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

BusinessGreen brings you live coverage from day one of the Net Zero Festival , featuring a host of top business leaders, influential policymakers, academics and inspirational thinkers providing an invaluable guide to the economic and industrial revolution that will define the post-Covid world.

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GreenBiz

MAY 20, 2021

Of course, a chorus of activist investors have been pressing investors, banks and companies to examine their risks on stranded oil and gas assets for more than a decade, knowing this day would arrive. That’s what Deborah Silvey, president of Fossil Free California, told the board of CalPERS, the largest U.S. It seems pretty prescient now.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

Thanks to the support of BCG, Schroders, SNC Lavalin, ENGIE, Bank of America, Drax, Derwent London, and Energy Saving Trust a limited number of free passes to attend the three day Net Zero Festival virtual summit are now available.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2020

Bank of America has become the latest corporate to hit carbon neutrality, with the firm announcing yesterday it has met the target a year ahead of schedule. Being carbon neutral is core to our $300bn, 10-year environmental business initiative that is helping finance the transition to a low-carbon future.".

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

US investment bank joins Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, and JP Morgan Chase in pledging to slash emissions from its financing activities over the coming decades. And while long-term aspirations are important, business leaders must not lose sight of what we can do in the here and now to accelerate climate transition.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

VIDEO: Bank of America's president of international Bernard Mensah delivers a partner keynote at BusinessGreen's Net Zero Festival. Bank of America is a partner of the Net Zero Festival. His conversation with BusinessGreen editor in chief James Murray can be watched again in full above.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

US banks have the political and financial leverage needed to play a major role in averting disruptive climate damage to the world economy. But despite strong rhetorical support of the Paris Climate Agreement, the vast majority of America’s largest banks continue to invest in companies ill-prepared for a low-carbon future.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 27, 2020

But right now, whatever you're hearing from banks and lawyers saying, ‘But deals are still happening; we're still working’ — I'm just not seeing it.". renewables, including Bank of America and JP Morgan, claim they're as active as ever before, industry sources say. and Europe, experts say.

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Business Green

AUGUST 25, 2022

UK Export Finance (UKEF) and HSBC UK have invested in the eco-bike business in order to help fuel its international growth. Electric quad bike business Eco Charger has received a £350,000 cash injection from UK Export Finance (UKEF) and HSBC UK, which it will use to fund the expansion of its business into North America.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In addition, synergies in project execution and operations with ReNew’s in-house capabilities are hoped to enhance returns and derisk completion timelines for ReNew’s core renewable energy development business. The signing between the Climate Investment Fund, ReNew and KLP is a great example of this. “It

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 4, 2024

Elemental Excelerator, a nonprofit investor focused on scaling climate technology for deep community impact, is honored to be a part of this momentous investment in American innovation and communities by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). to access GGRF capital. These projects are just the beginning,” Lippert continued.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

NGOs write open letter to UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI) calling for bolder measures to ensure banks' net zero pledges are met. Significantly, for the banking sector no new coal projects should be enabled through the activities of Race to Zero members.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

PepsiCo CSO on embedding sustainability into 'day-to-day business'. We have to have the certainty that the community will invest the time and willingness to go on with a program for several years, and we need to create awareness," said PepsiCo’s Latin America CEO, Paula Santilli, when I asked her about how communities are selected. "We

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 7, 2022

Now, the tracker has broadened its reach, assessing the fossil fuel policies of 369 banks, insurers, and investors. All the others, even those members of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, fail to align their business with a 1.5°C New funding for fossil fuels is delusional,” Guterres said on June 14.

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

The Emerging Leaders program provides a forum where environmentally focused youth can explore and learn about climate solutions and sustainability efforts across public and private sectors,” said Alex Liftman, global environmental executive at Bank of America, which sponsored the program at GreenFin. “The Deonna Anderson.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 20, 2021

For businesses who want to contribute, the donation process is easy! For businesses who want to contribute, the donation process is easy! Businesses simply sign up with Replate and choose from four donation plans depending on how frequently they want to donate. The Rotten Truth About Food Waste. food supply, the U.S.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

This is my year-end article from Harvard Business Review that I mentioned in my last post (which has many more stories and links). Business defends democracy. [Happy New Year! Here are the 6 big themes I drew from the last year, and 6 things to look out for in 2022]. How do you know when something becomes the norm? Here we go.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

AstraZeneca, Bank of America, PepsiCo, Unilever, L'Oreal, Natura & CO, Orsted, Salesforce, and Tesco are among a wave of 45 firms that have been awarded the inaugural 2021 Terra Carta Seal, the SMI confirmed.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The first order of business: digging in to support the restoration of 8,000 acres in the burn scars of the 2018 Carr and Camp Fires. Lately, I’ve been mulling that framework a great deal in the context of a much-ballyhooed nature-based solution for removing carbon emissions: planting trees. As a verified tree-hugger, I’m encouraged.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2020

Chile's unrest threatened to stymie foreign interest in clean power investments that had helped the country's renewables market become one of the hottest in Latin America, with a compound annual growth rate of 31.5 Chile's economy has been one of the better bets in Latin America in recent years.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

Deutsche Bank and other German lenders have poured finance into gas export terminals on the U.S. German banks lent 2.17 German banks lent 2.17 The banks also underwrote 610 million euros of bonds for the projects from 2012-2021, the data showed. “I billion euros to U.S. billion euros to U.S. Gulf Coast on January 3.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

Under the traditional capitalist model, financial performance for shareholders has been the primary measure of the success of a business. The pandemic has sharpened this focus by highlighting the importance of metrics such as employee health and well-being, safety protocols, cybersecurity and business continuity, to name a few.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

bank’s annual general (AGM) meeting on Tuesday said that its role in enabling the expansion of the oil and gas industry was pushing the Amazon rainforest closer to the brink of collapse. banks in the coming weeks. The bank – a US rival to Citi – is helping fund the Coastal Gaslink pipeline, which threatens First Nation lands in Canada.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 24, 2022

Last week, Citi released new, interim decarbonization targets , building on a flurry of climate commitments from some of the world’s largest banks at the end of last year. So far, 101 banks — with $67 trillion in assets — have joined the Net-Zero Banking Alliance , convened by the UN in April 2021. Every major U.S.

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