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Central banks are primarily tasked with managing Inflation and play a supervisory role, looking to ensure the stability of the banking system. Many also have other objectives, for example the Bank of England has a role in achieving net zero.  While the need for central banks to consider [...]

French utility ENGIE will hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on the 26th of April 2023. ENGIE is the largest independent electricity producer worldwide, and is also one of the most emitting utilities in Europe, ranking first in terms of gas power related emissions in 2021 in Europe. Ahead [...]

The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, launched in April 2021, states that it is “committed to accelerating and mainstreaming the decarbonization of the world economy and reaching net zero emissions by 2050.” A key early step in decarbonizing the world economy, as has been repeatedly emphasized in policy [...]

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 [...]