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67 organisations call on banks to cease financing metallurgical coal

Banks risk stranded assets & climate catastrophe in steel lending without metallurgical coal exclusions
Today a global group of 67 organisations led by BankTrack and Reclaim Finance is calling on 50 of the world’s largest banks to end all financial support for new metallurgical coal production and expansion. Metallurgical coal represents 14% of the world’s coal. Unlike thermal coal, it is predominately used for steelmaking and is refined into coke, a material combined with iron ore in a…
2023-12-07 | Nijmegen | Julia Hovenier – BankTrack
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67 organisations call on banks to cease financing metallurgical coal

Banks risk stranded assets & climate catastrophe in steel lending without metallurgical coal exclusions
2023-12-07 | Nijmegen | Julia Hovenier – BankTrack
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New report on ADNOC’s partners in climate chaos: Banks and fossil fuel majors

A new report on the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) highlights its outsized oil & gas expansion
2023-12-05 | BankTrack, urgewald, LINGO, Reclaim Finance
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Major bank and investor policies accelerating forest destruction, biodiversity loss, climate chaos and rights violations

New analysis documents $307 billion flowing from big finance into forest-risk commodities driving massive tropical deforestation
2023-12-04 | BankTrack, Forests & Finance Coalition
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Confronting a Fossil Future: Stopping the gas detour in renewable-rich Southeast Asia

Massive plans for gas undermine energy transition in renewables-rich Southeast Asia, new research reveals at COP 28
2023-12-03 | Dubai, UAE | Center for Energy, Ecology, and Development (CEED)
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COP28: Backers of new coal phaseout initiative need to walk the talk

2023-12-02 | Center for Energy, Ecology and Development (CEED), Centre for Environmental Rights, Reclaim Finance
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“Remedy should be the norm, not the exception”, says BankTrack at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights

2023-12-01 | BankTrack
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UK banks providing billions in financing to big livestock corporations responsible for higher greenhouse gas emissions than UK and Ireland

2023-12-01 | Feedback
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European Finance Flows fuelling the climate crisis: The role of Article 2.1c under the UNFCCC

The EU’s call for COP28 to address the world’s climate-harming financial flows not matched by its own efforts at home, research by ActionAid reveals
2023-11-30 | ActionAid
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Met coal: financial institutions’ missing policies

Since 2016, the world’s biggest banks have provided US$ 557 billion in finance to the 50 biggest developers in the metallurgical sector
2023-11-23 | Reclaim Finance
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Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC)

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Whitehaven Coal

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ANZ

Australia

In a major new climate litigation case, ANZ is being sued by a shareholder over concerns "the bank may not be properly managing the twin risks of climate change and biodiversity loss." Learn more here.

Citi

United States

A new campaign is pressuring the world’s second largest fossil fuel financier to go Fossil Free.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG)

Japan

In a new report by Reclaim Finance, MUFG was named the largest bank financier of metallurgical coal developers, providing USD 21.2 billion between 2016 and 2023.  

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United States

A new report from RAN sets out Bank of America's complicity in fossil fuel expansion and related human rights abuses.

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Still bankrolling coal (for steel)
2023-10-10 00:00:00 | Julia Hovenier, BankTrack
Barclays' bond with Adani
2023-09-18 00:00:00 | Banktrack & Toxic Bonds Network
How Barclays, one of the Adani Group's most loyal banks, must cease facilitating Adani's access to capital for the sake of the climate, human rights - and Barcalys' own good
How should financiers align with the Global Biodiversity Framework? Five Key Principles
2023-06-26 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Bank Information Centre (BIC), Friends of the Earth US, Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
Banking on Climate Chaos 2023
2023-04-13 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club, Urgewald
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Ten guiding principles for financing coal retirement mechanisms
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Leading with an invisible hand: what role will private finance play at COP28?
2023-11-30 00:00:00
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Exclusive: Four banks quit initiative assessing climate targets
2023-11-29 00:00:00
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China targeted by climate campaigners over controversial East Africa oil pipeline project
2023-11-22 00:00:00
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Exclusive: France, US to propose ban on private finance to coal-fired plants at COP28
2023-11-21 00:00:00
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Environmental groups urge funding halt for TotalEnergies' Mozambique project
2023-11-17 00:00:00
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ANZ in court over climate and nature risk failure
2023-11-09 00:00:00
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‘New And Repeated Failures’: CABEI’s Many Mistakes in Funding the Agua Zarca Dam
2023-11-01 00:00:00
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