RMI, in cooperation with leading global banks—BNP Paribas, Citi, Crédit Agricole CIB, Societe Generale, and Standard Chartered—and in consultation with industry, experts, and additional financial institutions has developed a first-of-its-kind framework to enable banks to measure and disclose their aviation lending portfolios’ emissions in a consistent and comprehensive manner. Today, RMI … [continued]
The gloves are off: solar electric cars have caught the eye of a leading international fleet operator and its high-flying parent company.
A funny thing happened just as people started turning off their laptops and gearing up for the long President’s Day weekend last month. At 2 p.m. on Friday, with no news alert, press statement or announcement, ExxonMobil for the first time revealed who received its lobbying money and how much. … [continued]
John Kerry, 68th United States Secretary of State and founder of World War Zero, will be attending the 4th annual Movin’On Summit in Montreal. He will be speaking at the summit on his experience battling climate change.
BNP Paribas, the 8th largest bank in the world, has issued a new report that says a dollar invested in renewables today will produce up to 4 times as much energy as a dollar invested in oil.
London-based fund manager Glennmont Partners announced Tuesday that it had successfully raised €850 million ($957 million) during its Third Fund investing in clean energy infrastructure projects in Europe, the largest amount that has ever been raised for a green energy only fund with a European mandate.
French banking giant BNP Paribas has cut ties with electricity producers in Poland, citing their continued dependence on the coal industry and no signs of a change in strategy towards renewable forms of energy.
The investment arm of the world’s seventh-largest bank, BNP Paribas, announced plans this week to implement an enhanced coal-exclusion policy which will tighten the company’s exclusion policy on companies engaged in mining thermal coal and generating electricity from coal.
British banking giant Barclays has revised its stance on investing in fossil fuels which includes halting investment in coal mining and coal-fired power stations, but the bank has come under fire for not going far enough, with environmental organization Greenpeace comparing its lack of action with the bank’s previous stance on apartheid, saying the bank is “once again on the wrong side of history.”
On Wednesday October 11th, banking giant BNP Paribas announced that it is cutting ties with companies whose main business is connected with shale and/or oil from tar sands. The move has been lauded by climate activists around the world, who are calling for other banks to follow BNP Paribas’ example.
