{"id":21962,"date":"2022-06-02T09:43:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T07:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reclaimfinance.org\/site\/?p=21962"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:26:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T11:26:07","slug":"gfanz-must-tighten-the-screw-on-fossil-fuel-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reclaimfinance.org\/site\/en\/2022\/06\/02\/gfanz-must-tighten-the-screw-on-fossil-fuel-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"GFANZ must tighten the screw on fossil fuel expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1216.8px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--body_typography-color); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--body_typography-font-size); font-style: var(--body_typography-font-style,normal); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\"><b style=\"color: #8ac56b;\">Pressure on the fossil fuel industry to stop developing new projects and to start to phase out the production of coal, oil and gas is steadily increasing. On May 18, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres <span style=\"color: #8ac56b;\"><u><a style=\"color: #8ac56b;\" href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/news\/antonio-guterres-time-to-jump-start-the-renewable-energy-transition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated unequivocally<\/a><\/u><\/span> that \u201cFossil fuels are a dead end \u2014 environmentally and economically. [\u2026] We must end fossil fuel pollution and accelerate the renewable energy transition, before we incinerate our only home.\u201d Global finance, and especially the leadership of the Glasgow Financial Alliance on Net Zero (GFANZ), needs to follow Guterres\u2019 lead, stop waffling on fossil fuels and send a clear message to the industry that its days are numbered. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guterres used strong words, but he is only stating the obvious, a reality that has been underlined again and again in recent years by scientific and policy bodies. The recent <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Working Group III report<\/span><\/a><\/u><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change&rsquo;s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) shows that <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">keeping warming under 1.5\u00b0C will require cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 50% between 2019 and 2030, and overall greenhouse gas emissions by 45%<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> (1). The IPCC is also clear that there is no conceivable path for achieving these reductions without a rapid transition away from fossil fuels to a renewable-powered, energy- and materials-efficient economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first step on the road away from fossil fuels must logically start by stopping the industry\u2019s <span data-contrast=\"auto\">climaticidal urges<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> to dig and suck ever more carbon out of the earth. This logical step entered the lexicon of mainstream energy economics one year ago, when in May 2021 the International Energy Agency (IEA) famously announced that <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">there is no room in even their <\/span><\/b><u><a href=\"https:\/\/reclaimfinance.org\/site\/en\/2021\/05\/18\/iea-stops-investments-in-fossil-fuel-supply-but-still-bets-on-false-solutions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">relatively fossil-friendly<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/u><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> net-zero pathway for new investments that expand supplies of coal, oil and fossil gas<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"--awb-text-color:#59bc6d;--awb-margin-bottom:15px;--awb-font-size:16px;\"><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-left fusion-no-large-visibility fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-small-visibility\"><div class=\"title-sep sep- sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#3e3e3e;\"><\/div><\/div><span class=\"awb-title-spacer fusion-no-large-visibility fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-small-visibility\"><\/span><h1 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;font-size:1em;--fontSize:16;--minFontSize:16;line-height:1.4;\">One Earth, one message: no fossil expansion<\/h1><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-right\"><div class=\"title-sep sep- sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#3e3e3e;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The IEA\u2019s message was emphasized again in early May this year in <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/guest-post-how-12-key-industries-can-cut-emissions-in-line-with-1-5c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">a report by<\/span><\/a><\/u><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) laying out industry-specific 1.5\u00b0C pathways for use by financial institutions in setting sectoral targets. This analysis is based on the UTS\u2019 One Earth Climate Model and was prepared for the <\/span><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unepfi.org\/net-zero-alliance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">UN-Convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance<\/span><\/a><\/u><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> (AOA). It shows that staying within the 1.5\u00b0C carbon budget without relying on unrealistic assumptions about the use of huge amounts of carbon capture technology will require immediate and steep cuts in emissions from the fossil fuel industry and all other carbon-intensive economic sectors. <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The UTS emphasizes that industry, finance and governments must all push for an \u201cimmediate cessation of investments in new oil, coal and gas projects.\u201d<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> G\u00fcnther Thallinger, the chair of the GFANZ-affiliated AOA, and a senior executive with insurance giant Allianz, <\/span><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uts.edu.au\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-05\/2622%20UTS%20Limit%20Global%20Warming%20report%20mr%2005b_UPLOAD.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">welcomed the UTS report<\/span><\/a><\/u><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and noted that investors should assess the companies they own against these pathways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More support for the end of fossil fuel expansion comes from an <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unep.org\/news-and-stories\/statements\/climate-responsible-finance-moral-imperative-towards-children\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">inter-denominational statement<\/span><\/a><\/u><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> on \u201cclimate-responsible finance\u201d published by the UN on May 9. <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The statement calls on financial services providers \u201cto take urgent and effective action to transition out of fossil fuel financing\u201d including by \u201cending all financing towards any new oil and gas projects exploration and extraction projects.\u201d <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The statement was <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">signed by the leaders of Christian, Muslim and Jewish organizations, as well as Eric Usher, the director of the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-2 fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"--awb-text-color:#59bc6d;--awb-margin-bottom:15px;--awb-font-size:16px;\"><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-left fusion-no-large-visibility fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-small-visibility\"><div class=\"title-sep sep- sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#3e3e3e;\"><\/div><\/div><span class=\"awb-title-spacer fusion-no-large-visibility fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-small-visibility\"><\/span><h1 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;font-size:1em;--fontSize:16;--minFontSize:16;line-height:1.4;\">Carbon bombs to blow up the 1.5\u00b0C budget<\/h1><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-right\"><div class=\"title-sep sep- sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#3e3e3e;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4\"><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A recent study in the journal <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0301421522001756?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Energy Policy<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/u><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> shows that in 2020 <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">fossil fuel companies were planning to start production at 93 new coal mines and 76 <\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">gigantic oil and gas projects that would each result in at least a billion tonnes of CO2\u202femissions over their lifetimes.<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> The potential emissions from these 169 new \u201ccarbon bombs\u201d are estimated as 419 billion tonnes: 5% higher than the IPCC\u2019s estimate of the total CO2 that can be released between 2020 and 2050 to have a 67% chance of keeping warming under 1.5\u00b0C.\u00a0 The head of the IEA, Fatih Birol, <\/span><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/may\/12\/oil-gas-mega-projects-climate-iea-fatih-birol-carbon-bombs-global-energy-crisis-fossil-fuel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">responded<\/span><\/a><\/u><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> to a piece in the<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Guardian <\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">on the carbon bombs report by saying that such projects \u201care not the solution to our urgent energy security needs and they will lock in fossil fuel use.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Governments and industry must play their role in stopping this fossil expansionism madness. But so must finance, and especially those financial institutions which by signing up to the Glasgow Financial Alliance on Net Zero (GFANZ) have committed to aligning with 1.5\u00b0C and to <u><a href=\"https:\/\/reclaimfinance.org\/site\/en\/2022\/02\/02\/time-for-financial-institutions-to-show-urgency-on-halving-emissions-by-2030\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">halving their financed emissions<\/span><\/a><\/u><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> by 2030. Yet sadly there is little sign \u2014 beyond some <\/span><u><a href=\"https:\/\/reclaimfinance.org\/site\/en\/2022\/01\/25\/new-aoa-target-setting-protocol-increased-ambition-but-a-missed-opportunity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">encouraging early moves<\/span><\/a><\/u><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> from the AOA \u2014 that GFANZ is prepared to grasp the nettle and show leadership in opposing fossil fuel expansion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indeed, some GFANZ leaders seem keener to talk about why more fossil fuels are needed than to make serious efforts to pressure the industry to face the cruel but unavoidable math of carbon-budget reality. In response to a shareholder question at their May 2022 annual meeting, Jane Fraser, CEO of Citigroup \u2014\u202fthe world\u2019s second largest banker of fossil fuels and a founder member of the GFANZ-affiliated Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) \u2014 <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/10\/climate\/banks-shareholders-climate-action.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">protested that<\/span><\/a><\/u><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> \u201cit\u2019s not feasible [&#8230;] to shut down the fossil fuel economy overnight.\u201d The previous month Bill Winters, the CEO of Standard Chartered and the chair of the NZBA\u2019s Steering CEO <\/span><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/04\/27\/ridiculous-to-think-we-can-stop-fossil-fuel-production-immediately-ceo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">claimed<\/span><\/a><\/u><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> it is \u201c<\/span><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/04\/27\/ridiculous-to-think-we-can-stop-fossil-fuel-production-immediately-ceo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ridiculous and naive<\/span><\/a><\/u><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d to think we can stop fossil fuels immediately.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These statements, and similar ones from other financial CEOs involved in GFANZ such as BlackRock\u2019s <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/01\/18\/blackrock-ceo-larry-finks-support-for-fossil-fuels-criticized.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Larry Fink<\/span><\/a><\/u><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, can only be seen as <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">deliberate efforts to misrepresent the demands of campaigners and the findings of scientists, and to conflate the call to \u201cend expansion and phase out fossil production in the coming decades\u201d with a demand to \u201csend in UN shock troops to cut off all global fossil fuel supply lines tomorrow.\u201d<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-3 fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"--awb-text-color:#59bc6d;--awb-margin-bottom:15px;--awb-font-size:16px;\"><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-left fusion-no-large-visibility fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-small-visibility\"><div class=\"title-sep sep- sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#3e3e3e;\"><\/div><\/div><span class=\"awb-title-spacer fusion-no-large-visibility fusion-no-medium-visibility fusion-no-small-visibility\"><\/span><h1 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;font-size:1em;--fontSize:16;--minFontSize:16;line-height:1.4;\">An end to expansion; a start to shrinkage<\/h1><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-right\"><div class=\"title-sep sep- sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#3e3e3e;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-5\"><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mark Carney, the co-chair of GFANZ and the UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance,\u00a0 has probably done more than anyone else from inside finance to ring the bell on the urgency of climate action. Yet from his recent statements (see <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-04-24\/mark-carney-goes-after-critics-of-banks-climate-record?sref=tEHt46mu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">here<\/span><\/a><\/u><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and <\/span><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.environmental-finance.com\/content\/news\/carney-some-fossil-fuel-investment-justified.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">here<\/span><\/a><\/u><span data-contrast=\"auto\">), Carney seems more focused on stressing that banks need to continue their high levels of fossil financing than he is to drive home the message that the funding of new carbon bombs needs to stop. <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Carney even argues that carbon emissions will have to increase \u201cin some cases for a defined period\u201d; hardly consistent with the IPCC\u2019s message on the urgent need to start steep emission cuts.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6\"><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--body_typography-color); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--body_typography-font-size); font-style: var(--body_typography-font-style,normal); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\"><b style=\"color: #8ac56b;\">Financial Times deputy editor Patrick Jenkins <span style=\"color: #8ac56b;\"><u><a style=\"color: #8ac56b;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/217b6462-f977-4075-a236-ef96fac91505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rightly notes<\/a><\/u><\/span> that Carney \u201cstraddles two horses these days\u201d in calling for both rapid decarbonization and further fossil fuel investments. As Jenkins says, the shift to green energy cannot be completed immediately. But Carney and the other influential players within GFANZ need to be frank that the shift must be rapid and must necessarily mean turning fossil fuel expansion into shrinkage. They must make it clear to the fossil fuel companies \u2014 and their political backers \u2014\u202fthat the game is up and their long-time financial enablers are no longer going to be around for them unless they radically change their ways. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px;width:100%;max-width:100%;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1216.8px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:10px;--awb-padding-right:10px;--awb-padding-bottom:0px;--awb-padding-left:10px;--awb-overflow:hidden;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-border-color:#fffffff;--awb-border-top:1px;--awb-border-right:1px;--awb-border-bottom:1px;--awb-border-left:1px;--awb-border-style:solid;--awb-border-radius:10px 10px 10px 10px;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\"><p><b><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><u>Notes<\/u><\/span><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li data-leveltext=\"(%1)\" data-font=\"Calibri\" data-listid=\"2\" data-list-defn-props=\"{\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><span data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\">These <\/span><span data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\">figures<\/span><span data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\"> are the <\/span><span data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\">median emission reductions from the \u201cC1\u201d <\/span><span data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\">immediate action, no or limited overshoot 1.5\u00b0C<\/span><span data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\"> pathways<\/span><span data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\"> (See IPCC AR6 WG3 <\/span><span data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\">Table TS.2)<\/span><span data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\">.<\/span><\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":21997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[],"acteurs_financiers":[2452],"thematique":[2423],"webinar_type":[],"programme":[],"class_list":["post-21962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog_en","acteurs_financiers-gfanz-en","thematique-fossil-fuels"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>GFANZ must tighten the screw on fossil fuel expansion - Reclaim Finance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Global finance, and especially the leadership of the GFANZ, needs to stop waffling on fossil fuels and send a clear message to the 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