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Climate Finance
State of Green Banks 2020: A Global Movement in the Making
While the attention of the world is on a rapid and sustainable COVID recovery, increasing climate change risks continue to loom large. Recovery will require investments that create jobs and ensure not only immediate green recovery, but also long-term sustainable development. We need ready solutions that promote local development of…
Banks and Climate Action: Taking Stock of Recent Commitments
Recent months have seen major moves on climate action by some of the world’s largest private banks, including JPMorgan Chase, HSBC, and Morgan Stanley. What sets this latest wave of climate pledges by financial institutions apart from past announcements? Building on previous commitments that increase green investments or restrict financing…
Real Change in the Real Economy: Decarbonizing Industry
If the global community has been tackling climate change for over 30 years, why is the pace of progress still so slow?
The Map Is Not the Territory: New Routes to a 1.5°C Future
Explorers use maps intensively, but they take the information recorded in the charts they use with a few grains of salt, knowing that the map is not the territory. After all, sometimes maps present a consensus view of reality that is disastrously wrong. For more than 100 years, beginning…
JPMorgan Chase Commits to Climate-Aligned Finance
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) commends JPMorgan Chase for announcing today that it will shape its core business to align with the Paris Agreement on climate change.