ESG & Investing
Banks Need Even Bigger Low-Carbon Pivot to Avert Climate Crisis
JPMorgan and Wells Fargo are among lenders falling short in making transition to clean energy, according to BloombergNEF report.
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Banks have a long, long way to go on climate change.
That's the takeaway from a BloombergNEF report that looks at the level of financing that banks are pouring into the energy transition. According to BNEF researchers, the ratio of clean-energy lending and equity underwriting relative to fossil fuels needs to hit 4 to 1 by the end of the decade if the planet is to avoid the worst ravages of climate change as laid out in the Paris Agreement of 2015.