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How to Push Wall Street to Ditch Fossil Fuels for Clean Energy

Tweaking capital rules to prioritize green investment, a global price on carbon and public-private financing are a few tools that could get banks to move their money. 

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The invasion of Ukraine has put the US and Europe on a wartime mission to abandon Russian fossil fuels. This series looks at speeding up zero-carbon alternatives by lowering political and financial barriers. Sign up here to get the next story sent to your inbox.

It will cost more than the gross domestic product of the entire world to rewire the global economy to run on clean energy.