Our reports
Managing inflation by supercharging a clean energy transition
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 [...]
2022 Scorecard on asset managers, fossil fuels and climate change
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 [...]
Banking on Climate Chaos Report 2022
The report, co-authored by Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club, and Urgewald, is the most comprehensive global analysis on fossil fuel banking to date. It reveals that the world’s B-biggest banks continued to pour billions into fossil fuel expansion in 2021. [...]
Amundi’s growth is a threat to the climate
By acquiring Lyxor in early January, Amundi continues its meteoric growth. But this means that an increasing portion of its assets will escape any climate-related restrictions and that Amundi is leaving the door open for new investments in companies with expansion plans in coal and more broadly in the [...]
European coal companies do not comply with net-zero pledges
Limited Utility: The European energy companies failing on net zero commitments report published in January 2022 by Europe Beyond Coal and think tank Ember, and endorsed by ten other organisations including Reclaim Finance. The report finds that the business plans of European coal companies do not contain the intermediate [...]
How to Exit Coal: 10 criteria for coal phase-out plans
The finance sector can play a critical role in accelerating the coal phase out. While more and more financial institutions are now calling on coal companies to adopt phase out plans, they need to go beyond vaguely worded requests and take action to ensure that these plans are robust, [...]
Below the radar: how central banks are investing unsustainably
A report by Reclaim Finance analyzes the investment policies of G20 and Eurosystem central banks, revealing that these major financial trend-setters are lagging behind when it comes to investing sustainably and considering the impact of their investments on climate. This report comes while central banks are increasingly vocal on [...]
Making the net-zero alliances work for the climate
Reclaim Finance published a comprehensive report at COP26 in Glasgow revealing the extensive shortcomings in the finance sector’s rapidly growing “net-zero” alliances. If these shortcomings are not fixed, the alliances will very likely fall far short of their ambitious but necessary goal of halving the emissions from the clients [...]
Spreading the fossil fuel pandemic: ECB’s Covid asset purchases are supporting oil and gas expansion
A new research by Reclaim Finance reveals that ECB’s exceptional purchases of corporate bonds amid the Covid-crisis benefited to European oil and gas majors, in spite of the fact that these companies are planning a massive increase in fossil fuel production at odds with EU climate goals and the [...]
Out with Science, In with Lobbyists: Gas, Nuclear and the EU Taxonomy
On July 22nd 2021, Reclaim Finance published a report – Out with Science, In with Lobbyists: Gas, Nuclear and the EU Taxonomy – that exposes the lobbying from the fossil gas and nuclear industry to feature in the EU’s influential sustainable taxonomy. The report uncovers a multimillion euro lobbying [...]
