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Bloomberg
24-06-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Coal Loophole Undermines Bank Pledges to Cut Fossil Fuel Funding
In the parts of the financial world that have spent the decade since the Paris Agreement trying to curb the most-polluting fossil fuel, there are actually two distinct types of coal — with two very different sets of rules. Thermal coal, burned in power plants to generate electricity, faces restrictions from roughly 150 of the world's largest financial companies, according to Paris-based nonprofit Reclaim Finance, which monitors the pledges. Metallurgical coal used to create steel faces pushback from just 13 firms.
Bloomberg
20-06-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Banks Are Financing Their Own Multitrillion-Dollar Nightmare
Financial companies are basically abetting theft from themselves by supporting new projects to extract and burn fossil fuels. Save If you come home early from vacation and find robbers ransacking your house, you could call the police and try to stop the crime. But the true alpha move would be to help the robbers load your valuables onto the truck and then tell them which of your neighbors are also on vacation in exchange for a cut of the profits. Banks are choosing the alpha option, basically abetting theft from themselves by backing new projects to extract and burn fossil fuels, thus stoking the planetary heating that stunts economic growth and their own insurance and mortgage businesses. Of course, these financial companies do get a cut of the short-term profits from this environmental sabotage. And by abandoning the pretense of siding with the climate, they avoid political blowback from a US government that has declared war on it. But the long-term result will be a global economy trillions of dollars poorer and far less stable, impoverishing just about everyone, including the banks.
