New Report: Despite ‘Net Zero’ Rhetoric, World’s Biggest Banks Continued to Pour Billions into Fossil Fuel Expansion in 2021

March 30, 2022By Oil Change InternationalBlog Post, Featured, News, Press Releases 1 Comment

Released today, the 13th annual Banking on Climate Chaos report, the most comprehensive global analysis on fossil fuel banking to date, underscores the stark disparity between public climate commitments being made by the world’s largest banks, versus the reality of their largely business-as-usual financing to the fossil fuel industry.

Locked Out of a Just Transition: Fossil Fuel Financing in Africa

March 3, 2022By Oil Change InternationalFeatured, Reports, Stopping Carbon Lock-In

Between 2016, following the adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement, and June 2021, public and private financial institutions poured at least $132 billion in lending and underwriting into 964 gas, oil and coal projects in West, East, Central and Southern Africa. The vast majority of this finance came from financial institutions based outside Africa, both commercial banks and public institutions such as development banks and Export Credit Agencies.

New Report: At least $132 billion in finance for fossil fuels is locking Africa out of a Just Transition

March 3, 2022By Oil Change InternationalFeatured, Press Releases

Between 2016, following the adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement, and June 2021, public and private financial institutions poured at least $132 billion in lending and underwriting into 964 gas, oil and coal projects in West, East, Central and Southern Africa. The vast majority of this finance came from financial institutions based outside Africa, both commercial banks and public finance institutions like development banks and export credit agencies.

Fracking Fiasco: New report names Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase as main players funding U.S. shale bust

September 24, 2020By Oil Change InternationalBlog Post, Featured, Press Releases, Stopping Carbon Lock-In

A new report by Oil Change International and Rainforest Action Network (RAN) shows how major banks have continued pouring money into fracking companies in recent years despite numerous warnings that the sector was financially unsustainable — on top of the well-documented environmental, health and climate impacts of the industry.