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Banking on Climate Chaos 2021: Fossil Fuel Finance Report

Banking on Climate Chaos 2021: Fossil Fuel Finance Report

Full Title: Banking on Climate Chaos 2021: Fossil Fuel Finance Report
Author(s): Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Reclaim Finance,Sierra Club
Publisher(s): Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Reclaim Finance,Sierra Club
Publication Date: March 24, 2021
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Description (excerpt):

This report analyzes fossil fuel financing from the world’s 60 largest commercial and investment banks — aggregating their leading roles in lending and underwriting of debt and equity issuances — and reveals that these banks poured a total of USD $3.8 trillion into fossil fuels from 2016–2020. Fossil fuel financing dropped 9% last year, parallel to the global drop in fossil fuel demand and production due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And yet 2020 levels remained higher than in 2016, the year immediately following the adoption of the Paris Agreement. The overall fossil fuel financing trend of the last five years is still heading definitively in the wrong direction, reinforcing the need for banks to establish policies that lock in the fossil fuel financing declines of 2020, lest they snap back to business-as-usual in 2021.

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