ESG & Investing
Wall Street Gets Ready to Cash In on $1 Trillion Climate Market
- Bankers are keen to get a foothold as financing takes off
- Delegates at COP are expected to set guardrails for market
Attendees at the COP28 climate conference at Expo City in Dubai.
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As the carbon offset market gets a new lease on life from the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, bankers from Wall Street and the City of London are positioning themselves to get a chunk of the dealmaking they say is coming.
Banks that have been building up carbon trading and finance desks include Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Barclays Plc. They’re looking to finance the development of carbon sequestration projects, to trade credits and to advise corporate clients buying offsets. They’re also keen to support local projects in emerging markets that currently lack the financial clout to scale up their work.