Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

New research reveals that banks are doing little to finance a low-carbon future, while investing trillions in multinational oil companies, some of which have doubled their profits in the last year. During that timeframe, the banks continued to pour $2.3 billion in 2016 and $34.5 billion in 2016 and $34.5 org, on his website.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 26, 2021

Despite net-zero pledges, banks used $750 billion to finance fossil fuels in 2020. Net-zero commitments may have ricocheted across banking sector over the last 18 months, but big banks' attestations of climate concern did not stop many from expanding financing for the world's top fossil fuel firms during the pandemic year.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 24, 2022

In the pursuit of its net-zero 2050 goal, Canada needs a rigorous strategy to require banks and other key financial system players, including Crown corporations, to fully align their operations with the country’s international climate commitments. Matt Price, co-founder of Investors for Paris Compliance.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Harder but not impossible: COVID-19 and the Sustainable Development Goals. In 2015, the world, acting through the United Nations, set in place a system of 17 very ambitious goals to guide humanity’s development toward sustainability through 2030. Sustainable Development Goals, also known as the Global Goals, over the past few years.

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3BL Media

APRIL 23, 2025

April 23, 2025 /3BL/ A $1 million gift from KeyBank Foundation will support recruitment, retention, and workforce development initiatives at Albany Medical Center. Funds will be used to develop the LEAP programLeading Employees to Advancement and em(P)owerment. ALBANY, N.Y., Albany Medical Centers LEAP program does just this.

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3BL Media

MAY 14, 2025

The year marked a strategic reset under new CEO Wellington Holbrook, reaffirming Vancitys commitment to delivering modern, people-centered banking rooted in equity, inclusion, and climate action. Key initiatives included rolling out long-requested service upgrades and streamlining operations for greater efficiency. of Vancitys $36.0B

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Renew Economy

AUGUST 28, 2024

New Zealand Green Investment Finance commits $NZ78 million to support the development of five projects being developed by Far North Solar Farm. The post New Zealand green bank backs five solar farms with a total capacity of more than 1GW appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The federal Competition Bureau’s decision to investigate charges of misleading advertising against the Royal Bank of Canada is a sign that federal regulators are paying closer attention to the climate crisis and its causes, says the environmental law charity that filed the case.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2025

Computers & peripherals mfg $366,926 12% 728:1 50% 76% 0% C 1.5C, SBTi 80 52 Investec Ltd Sandton, South Africa Banks $2,308,452 6% 48:1 58% 4% N.A. C NZIA, NZAO 82 Bank of Montreal Montreal, Canada Banks $1,670,219 8% 61:1 46% 7% N.A. Banks $2,854,401 8% 46:1 50% 4% N.A. Banks $303,387 9% 152:1 33% 3% N.A.

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Renew Economy

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Australian banks are in the box seat to develop and advocate for new, inventive measures that green up the nation’s single largest asset class, the housing market. The post Big banks take on greening of Australia’s $10 trillion housing stock appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 13, 2025

The venture is a joint partnership between Six Nations of the Grand River Development Corporation (SNGRDC), Mississaugas of the Credit Business Corporation, NRStore Inc., Oneida is held up as a model for partnerships that prioritize Indigenous involvement in clean energy development. Aecon Concessions and Northland Power Inc.,

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 13, 2025

For decades, policymakers and energy planners have operated under a simple assumption: modern development requires a national power grid. In Kenya , off-grid solar is fuelling the continents mobile banking revolution, enabling people to power their phones and participate in the digital economy. Its a market-driven revolution.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 15, 2024

Wading into this hot-button arena is an institution that has generally kept quiet on this front: a new paper by the World Bank lays out a roadmap for how the world can substantially reduce the emissions from food systems partly by redirecting the subsidies given to the meat and dairy industries.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 31, 2023

At Investors for Paris Compliance, we just reviewed our major banks' net zero progress to assess whether they may have it covered. Unfortunately, this isn’t what the banks mean. Moreover, Canada is developing a taxonomy to categorize which investments are sustainable and which aren’t.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 17, 2025

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Paris-based financial services group Societe Generale announced the launch of a new clean energy financing initiative, aimed at unlocking as 8 billion in investments to support manufacturers across the wind energy supply chain in Europe.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 3, 2024

Last month there was a rare meeting, where the chief executives of Canada’s five largest banks testified before Parliament about their climate commitments. Policymakers confronted the banks’ credibility on their stated climate targets. Canada should follow suit.

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3BL Media

APRIL 25, 2025

CLEVELAND, April 25, 2025 /3BL/ KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment (CDLI) provided $ 23.3 CLEVELAND, April 25, 2025 /3BL/ KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment (CDLI) provided $ 23.3 The sponsor and developer, HVN Development also provided loans in the amount of $2.4

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

CLEVELAND, February 18, 2025 /3BL/ KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment (CDLI) provided a $27 million construction loan and arranged a $14.4 Seaver Rickert from KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment and Leslie Meyers from Keys Commercial Mortgage Group arranged the financing.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 21, 2023

The 67-year-old accountant is a trailblazer: after three and a half decades in financial management (including 11 years as chief executive officer at the First Nations Finance Authority), Daniels became the first First Nations person appointed to the Bank of Canada’s board of directors in January. Directors have no input into monetary policy.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Tokyo-based banking and financial services company Mizuho Bank and Temasek-owned decarbonization solutions-focused investment platform GenZero announced today a new partnership aimed at developing transition credits to help fund the acceleration of the early retirement of coal-fired power plants.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 16, 2025

Energy and automation digital solutions provider Schneider Electric and the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) announced today a new partnership, with Schneider Electric becoming the first global sustainability consultants to join the PCAF accredited partnership program, aimed at supporting banks and investors to measure and report (..)

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Almost 10 years ago, an article in this magazine called for more SME funding, revealing that only 1 percent of overseas development aid goes toward supporting them. However, developing that model and giving it the time to test, iterate, and scale requires long-term, patient capital.

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Global Renewable News

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Highlights EBRD lends 18 million to support construction of a sustainable office building in Vilnius Investment promotes urban regeneration of the city State-of-the-art building to target BR.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

We can support the development of female entrepreneurs using accelerators and incubators and recruiting more women into the tech and banking sectors.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 19, 2022

London-based HSBC Holdings says it will cease financing for the development of new oil and gas fields in order to tackle climate change while carving out its Canadian unit from the policy change. Price says it’s disappointing that Canadian banks have failed to do the same as HSBC with a halt to financing for new oil and gas fields.

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GreenBiz

JULY 9, 2020

The Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is banking on banks to get us over the carbon-neutral finish line by 2050. . It's important that the tools we develop be as practical and commercial as possible. "We It's important that the tools we develop be as practical and commercial as possible." . Thu, 07/09/2020 - 00:01.

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Renew Economy

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

French renewables and battery developer says it has raised more than $1.1bn in new debt finance for its Australian assets, including the four-hour battery being built in Western Australia. billion in finance as green bank backs its first four hour battery appeared first on RenewEconomy. The post Neoen lands $1.1

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

November 9, 2023 /3BL/ - Today, Truist Foundation announced a $250,000 grant to UnidosUS , the nation's largest Latine civil rights organization, to support its workforce development goal of transforming the workforce ecosystem to ensure Latines have access to quality jobs with clear pathways to prosperity. TAMPA, Fla., and Durham, N.C.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

by Casey Lozar, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis' Center for Indian Country Development Imagine financial institutions across Indian Country focusing on goals rooted in social impact investing. These institutions exist, yet many people remain unfamiliar with them.

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ESG Today

MAY 2, 2025

The Bank of England (BoE) announced today a series of proposals strengthening its expectations for banks and insurers management of climate-related risks, after finding that while improvements in this area have been made over the past few years, progress is uneven and more needs to be done.

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3BL Media

MAY 13, 2025

The Farm to Farmer program offers dedicated support for farmer collectives through all stages of formation and organizational development, working through the funding and land acquisition process and bringing together networks of like-minded individuals. To learn more, visit KeyBank Heritage Center.

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3BL Media

MARCH 31, 2025

The Small Business Catalyst Fund helps small and micro business owners obtain working capital when traditional lending is not an option by connecting them with potential capital options offered by trusted Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs). Fifth Third Bank, National Association is a federally chartered institution.

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3BL Media

MARCH 4, 2025

Bank company blog In 2013, to avoid monitoring by his manager, a truck driver at a New Jersey engineering firm purchased an illegal $50 GPS jammer that plugged into his vehicles cigarette lighter. Bank Business Access Advisor , and fellow Inland Empire native, Heli Castaneda. Originally published on U.S. Over the past two years, U.S.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 2, 2022

Developed countries now project that they won’t meet that pledge until 2023 – three years late and still woefully short of the real need. I have worked closely with developing countries seeking help to deal with climate change. First, many of these banks have not ambitiously incorporated climate change into their programming.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

But what makes this development – which includes 12 deeply affordable apartments to be operated by a local non-profit – unusual is that it is hooked into a geo-exchange system. The State of Massachusetts last year established a Community Climate Bank to fund low-carbon projects aimed at affordable rental housing agencies. In the U.K.,

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

This week in ESG news: Canada to require oil & gas industry to slash emissions; California’s climate reporting law survives legal challenge; Mizuho invests in climate solutions provider Pollination; new clean energy deals signed by H&M, Meta, Saint-Gobain; incoming EU finance Commissioner calls for sustainable investment labels, reduced SFDR (..)

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Global Renewable News

MAY 25, 2025

Highlights European Investment Bank is the largest lender by far to Batyk 2 and Batyk 3 offshore wind farms developed by Norway's Equinor and Poland's Polenergia. The two large-sca.

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