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Banking industry’s net zero alliance shuts down amid faltering climate commitments
The Guardian ^ | Fri 3 Oct 2025 09.33 EDT | Damien Gayle

Posted on 10/03/2025 7:25:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

NZBA had nearly 150 members but banks began leaving when Trump was re-elected on promise to ‘drill, baby, drill’

The global banking industry’s net zero target-setting group has announced it will shut down immediately, amid faltering climate commitments around the world.

The Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), which was rocked by a wave of departures after Donald Trump’s re-election, said its remaining members had “voted to transition from a member-based alliance and to establish its guidance as a framework”.

“As a result of this decision, NZBA will cease operations immediately,” a spokesperson said.

Sustainable investment campaigners offered mixed reactions to the move. Jeanne Martin, co-director of corporate engagement at the responsible investment group ShareAction, described it as “bitterly disappointing”.

She said: “Senior bankers need to be far more courageous in this decisive moment for all our futures and must use their influence to push up standards for accountability on climate if we are to stand any chance of making the clean energy transition happen.”

But Lucie Pinson, the director of Reclaim Finance, said she “won’t mourn” the demise of the NZBA. “Like other financial alliances of its kind, it brought little – if anything – to the climate, and was doomed to fail,” she said. “Its purpose was never to take real action, but to create the illusion of measures in order to ward off the risk of regulation.

“At least its demise brings clarity: the institutions genuinely committed to containing global warming will continue to act. But the massive reallocation of financial flows toward solutions cannot happen without intervention from policymakers and regulators. Their action is essential to limit climate change and the systemic risks it entails. For both, the priority remains ending the financing of fossil fuel expansion.”

On paper, the NZBA, which was convened by the UN Environment Programme finance initiative but led by...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: carbonpropaganda; climatehoax; fakescience; thethrillisgone
The global banking industry’s net zero target-setting group has announced it will shut down immediately...

That's a shame.

1 posted on 10/03/2025 7:25:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Net Zero is not science


2 posted on 10/03/2025 7:36:22 PM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Alex Newman Explains the Climate Change Con in Under Two Minutes Rumble video 1:33
3 posted on 10/03/2025 7:36:29 PM PDT by TigersEye (Terrorism has been institutionalized by the left. Ask no quarter. Give no quarter.)
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At least our government didn't create a Department of Net Zero like the Brits did. This is on Whitehall by Parliament. I was strolling by a couple weeks ago and fell to laughing when I saw this.

Every action the government is taking there to secure their energy supply has the exact opposite result. Their absurd Net Zero efforts are ENSURING scarce, unreliable, and unaffordable energy.


4 posted on 10/03/2025 7:44:34 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Marx Carnage is crying now.


5 posted on 10/03/2025 7:57:55 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (All we need is 177k signatures to get a referendum on freedom in Alberta!)
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The political perks and government money dried up, they mean.

Dried up? Global warming!


6 posted on 10/03/2025 8:30:02 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.”)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If you do stupid crap, you reap your rewards.


7 posted on 10/03/2025 8:42:42 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

WOW, what timing thanks for posting!


8 posted on 10/03/2025 8:50:38 PM PDT by existentially_kuffer
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give thanks to President Trump.


9 posted on 10/03/2025 11:07:49 PM PDT by MAGAthon ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Now Canadian Prime Minister Carney, who helped orchestrate the NZBA into existence, must be crying in his Cornflakes.


10 posted on 10/04/2025 1:53:09 AM PDT by HardyCanuck (Press Gangs)
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So is this the organization that sold the purported energy credits?


11 posted on 10/04/2025 3:20:36 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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