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Banks with $29trn in assets pledge to set 2050 'net zero' targets

A group of banks with about $28.5 trillion in assets has joined a UN-convened 'Net Zero Banking Alliance', and in doing so pledged to "align operational and attributable emissions from their portfolios with pathways to net-zero by 2050 or sooner".

Investor group urges banks to set enhanced net zero targets

News round-up: GRI, SASB standards 'complementary', BoA boosts ESG financing target, Impax reaches assets milestone ... and more

Bank of America boosts environmental financing initiative to $1trn

Winners revealed in Environmental Finance's Bond Awards 2021

News round-up: TCFD, John Kerry, Legal and General, Church of England, and more

RAN fossil fuel investigation shows massive continued financing from banks

Global banks supply $800m a day to plastics supply chain

The amount of money that banks have pumped into the global plastics supply chain has been tracked in a new report

News Round Up: State Street, Bank of America, CFA Institute, and more

PCAF launches standard for global emissions

The Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) has launched a methodology which intends to enable banks to measure and disclose the emissions associated with their financed activities.