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HSBC, Standard Chartered and Barclays provide $12bn in fossil fuel financing in 2021

HSBC, Standard Chartered and Barclays have supported a combined $12 billion in fossil fuel financing in the first six months of 2021, which campaigners said undermines the climate pledges made by the lenders ahead of the COP26 climate summit in the country later this year.

Six banks launch steel sector decarbonisation working group

Nature-based solutions carbon credit market Climate Impact X launched

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".

News round-up: BlackRock, Eurazeo, CBL, COP26 and Standard Chartered

Standard Chartered signs up to Poseidon Principles

People Moves 8 January: HSBC, EcoSecurities, Standard Chartered, Posaidon, GAM, CBRE Global Investors, ODDO BHF, Hannon Armstrong, Sustainalytics

CCCA banks to publish principles for low-carbon portfolio alignment

The Collective Commitment to Climate Action (CCCA) is to publish agreed principles and guidance for assessing portfolio alignment, and setting and reporting on alignment targets, by the end of Q1 2021.

EU 'brown' taxonomy proposals split financial sector

Etihad Airways issues 'world's first transition sukuk'

United Arab Emirates (UAE)-owned Etihad Airways has issued a five-year $600 million sustainability-linked 'transition' sukuk, believed to be the first of its kind in the world and the first sustainability-linked bond in the airline industry.