Our reports

  • Central banks and financial regulators are currently operating in a context of multiple, overlapping crises. Acute physical risks from climate change are materialising globally, with the most severe impacts in the Global South. Droughts, floods, wildfires and heat waves have wrought havoc on human lives and natural ecosystems, thereby [...]

  • Africa is already in the midst of a climate emergency. The continent only accounts for around 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions, yet its communities, ecosystems and economies are experiencing ever more intense heat waves, droughts, cyclones and catastrophic floods. While the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and [...]

  • While COP 27 begins, Reclaim Finance comes back on the 10 preconceived ideas put forward by many French financial institutions to justify their continued support to oil and gas expansion, despite scientific recommendations. "We must finance the world as it is", "gas is a transition fuel", "we support companies [...]

  • The Insure Our Future campaign reveals the latest climate progress of the world's 30 largest insurers and reinsurers in its 6th edition of the nsurance Scorecard. While more and more insurers and reinsurers are taking a stand against oil and gas expansion, France's AXA and SCOR have not yet [...]

  • This report, co-published by Reclaim Finance, Urgewald and Greenpeace, takes stock of the climate practices of four major German asset managers, Allianz GI, Union Investment, Deka Investments and DWS, together managing more than €2.3 trillion of assets.  Exclusive data shows these asset managers are unrestrictedly investing in the companies [...]

  • Reclaim Finance calls on global insurers not to renew insurance coverage to Ichthys LNG, one of the most carbon-intensive liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in Australia whose promoters TotalEnergies and Inpex are currently planning its climate-wrecking expansion. Based on rare documents from the Supreme Court of Western Australia, Reclaim Finance was able [...]

  • The urge to end Europe’s Russian fossil fuel dependency as quickly as possible has put LNG in the spotlight. In the past few months, new LNG import terminal projects have sprung up all over Europe amid a surge in the push to diversify gas supplies, adding to several existing [...]

  • A report by Reclaim Finance reveals that in spite of their net-zero pledges, US banks continue to finance developers of new coal projects.   This report analyzes US banks’ support to the coal industry and to coal developers more specifically. It assesses the gaps in their coal policies [...]

  • This report shows the role the ECB should take to fulfill its price stability primary mandate in a context of climate crisis and energy-driven inflation. Exploring the three types of climate-related inflations identified by ECB board member Isabel Schnabel in a recent speech, it shows why and how the [...]

  • This report, entitled ‘The asset managers fueling climate chaos’ and co-authored by Reclaim Finance, urgewald, ReCommon and The Sunrise Project, is a deep-dive into the engagement and exclusion policies of 30 major investors. It highlights that they are far from doing enough to fight fossil fuel expansion, revealing the [...]