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18 NGOs including Reclaim Finance have released around the 5th Paris Agreement anniversary, a joint report showcasing 12 of the most devastating fossil fuel expansion areas that are currently planned or under development. These expansion projects alone would use up three-quarters of the total remaining carbon budget if we [...]
On December 4th 2020, Reclaim Finance and Change Finance publish today a report on the lobbying of financial and economic institutions on an EU taxonomy for polluting activities. The briefing analyzes the 648 responses to the consultation on the renewed EU sustainable finance strategy, to provide a clear picture of [...]
Insuring Our Future : 2020 Scorecard on Insurance, Fossil Fuels and Climate Change is a report published by 19 organisations from 11 countries. It ranks 30 leading insurers and evaluates their coverage and investments in fossil fuels and other climate-action criteria. The continued withdrawal of insurers from coal makes it [...]
With its “benchmarks regulation” the European Union wishes to create a common basis of minimum criteria to meet for “green” financial indices, and thus contribute to making finance compatible with the goals of the Paris Agreement. This regulation consists of the creation of two climate index benchmarks that provide [...]
An increasing number of large companies and financial players claim to be working towards carbon neutrality and alignment with the climate goals of the Paris Agreement. To rationalize their strategy, these institutions are increasingly relying on climate scenarios aiming at stimulating the evolution of human activity, considering the goals [...]
In May 2020, Reclaim Finance publishes a report revealing that the European Central Bank’s corporate asset purchases significantly finances all fossil fuels. Four months later, the NGO reveals in a new memo that companies supported by the ECB greatly contribute to fossil gas expansion in Europe and worldwide. Titled [...]
On August 25th, 2020, Reclaim Finance publishes a briefing warning about the extent of fossil gas and nuclear lobbying on the EU sustainable taxonomy and underlining the possibility that these previously excluded energies would be reintegrated. Reclaim Finance calls on the EU Commission to exclude natural gas and nuclear [...]
In May 2020, Friends of the Earth France and Reclaim Finance published a report revealing that French banks and investors significantly support North American shale oil and gas. Entitled “The Paris Financial Center at the Bottom of the Well”, the report also gathers information about the climate, environmental, sanitary, [...]
In May 2020, Reclaim Finance publishes a report revealing that the European Central Bank’s corporate asset purchases significantly finances all fossil fuels. based on its study of the ECB’s list of corporate holdings (CSPP and PEPP), Reclaim Finance shows that quantitative easing strongly benefits to firms from the most [...]
The latest version of the most comprehensive report on fossil fuel financing by international banks, “Banking on Climate Change 2020,” was released today. The “Banking on Climate Change 2020” fossil fuel finance report is a collaboration between Reclaim Finance, Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International and [...]
