Wells Fargo and Citigroup Vote to Keep Financing Fossil Fuels
The three banks have rejected shareholder resolutions to make their lending practices consistent with climate targets.
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The three banks have rejected shareholder resolutions to make their lending practices consistent with climate targets.
Today, in an open letter to Vanguard CEO Tim Buckley, over 100 organizations representing over 6 million people called on the world’s second-largest asset manager to enact the visionary financial leadership that is needed to meet the scale and urgency of the climate crisis. The letter comes with the launch of Vanguard S.O.S.
A CNN article over the weekend cited left-wing climate reports and activists active in pressuring the financial sector to abandon fossil fuel projects.
State GOP lawmakers are pushing bills to blacklist financial institutions that make net-zero pledges, but a new report shows that banks’ promises don’t match their balance sheets.
The commission issued a 500-plus-page proposed rule Monday that would mandate corporate disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions.