Sunday, February 4, 2024

Bank of America Pledged to Stop Financing Coal. Now It’s Backtracking.

 Emissions from burning fossil fuels for energy are the biggest driver of global climate change. The International Energy Agency, the world's leading energy agency, has said that nations of the world need to immediately stop approving new coal-burning power plants and new oil and gasfields if they want to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change.

To environmental advocates, banks' backtracking has effects beyond the financing itself. It "sends a very bad signal," said Lucie Pinson, director of Reclaim Finance, a nonprofit that scrutinizes the climate strategies of fossil-fuel companies. "Bank of America is sending a message to its clients that it's OK to take up new fossil-fuel assets," she said. "We should have stopped developing such assets years ago."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/03/climate/bank-of-america-esg.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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