Bankers Making Improbable Green Claims May Soon Be Exposed

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Bankers may soon have a harder time arguing that climate pledges and fossil-fuel financing can go hand in hand.

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) is weighing whether to set a hard deadline for financial firms to halt new fossil-fuel investments, if they want their net-zero emissions targets verified by the United Nations-backed group.