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Sierra Club Joins 100+ Advocacy Groups in Demanding Banks, Insurance Companies & Private Equity Firms End Backing of LNG

Letter to major global financial firms follows dramatic change in U.S. policy on the LNG sector

Bank of America Rolls Back Restrictions on Financing for Coal, Arctic Oil and Gas

World’s fourth biggest fossil fuel funder weakens exclusions for highly destructive, risky projects

Sierra Club Applauds NYC Comptroller for Shareholder Resolutions Calling on Banks to Report Their Energy-Supply Financing Ratios

Proposals filed at JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, RBC

New Report: The Hidden Risk in State Pensions: Analyzing State Pensions’ Responses to the Climate Crisis in Proxy Voting

Analysis reveals pensions failing to protect beneficiaries from climate-related financial risk

Financial Stability Oversight Council Annual Report Addresses Climate-Related Financial Risk

Council recommends continued state, federal agency coordination on identifying and assessing risk

Sierra Club Joins 67 Organizations in Calling on Banks to End Financing of Metallurgical Coal

Banks risk stranded assets, climate catastrophe in steel lending without exclusions

Memo on Finance Day at COP 28: US Banks, US Regulatory Agencies, and GFANZ

Monday, December 4, is Finance Day at COP 28

New Standards Set the Baseline for Bank Reporting on Emissions from Capital Markets Activities

Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) publishes long-awaited methodology on banks’ disclosures of facilitated emissions, but what’s most needed is stronger targets for reducing those emissions

New Climate Report from JPMorgan Chase is a Mixed Bag on Disclosures, Emissions Reduction Targets

World’s biggest funder of fossil fuels improves quality of emissions disclosures, but makes concerning changes to energy sector emissions reduction targets

Advocacy Groups Call GFANZ's Proposed Method for Measuring Transition Finance 'Fatally Flawed'

Financial alliance publishes paper on how financial institutions can measure decarbonization

30+ Advocacy Groups Write Letter to House Leadership in Opposition to Anti-ESG Bills

Bills would 'threaten workers’ retirement security and our financial system'

FSOC Establishes Guidelines on Nonbank Financial Institutions, Analytic Framework to Identify Financial Stability Risks

New guidelines will help avoid financial crises from under-supervised firms and activities