Finance

Rural families in Bangladesh spend almost two billion dollars a year on preventing climate related disasters and repairing the damage.

Major high street banks among investors driving billions of dollars into companies involved in deforestation.

Nearly £150 billion invested in fossil fuels by UK banks since Paris Agreement.

Investment services are going unaccounted for in the fight against climate crisis, but with awareness comes action.

Profit should not come at any price, particularly investments with a long time horizon, such as your pension.

Barclays is one of the largest investors in fossil fuels, and has £15.6 billion of assets in oil, gas and coal extradition globally.

Government 'green finance strategy' includes £5 million green home finance fund.

It’s time banks start to act responsibly and in the long-term interests of their customers.

Pervasive mismanagement contributed to the near collapse of The Co-operative Bank.

Insurers need to properly assess climate risks and divest from fossil fuels.

We must shift the terms of the climate debate from 'science and denial' to 'rights and power'.

Indigenous Environmental Network's lawsuit blocked construction of Keystone XL.

People power can be the antidote to negative populism.

Financial industries and regulators must consider the ethics of investments, particularly when it comes to climate change.

Five of Europe’s biggest climate offenders continue to enjoy billions of euros in public funds, according to a Bankwatch report

The banks' support for fossil fuel extraction and climate breakdown could instigate the next crash with unprecedented costs for innocent people ten years on from the 2008 financial crisis.

There is a crisis in affordable and efficient homes. We need to develop a model which ensures fair access, minimum impact, and long-term financial and environmental security. BRUCE DAVIS reports

Reforms should be made to the Bank of England’s mandate to make climate stability a core purpose, according to a new report. CATHERINE EARLY reports

London-listed copper giant Antofagasta has been entangled in scandals in Chile involving water depletion, dangers to local communities, corruption of national politics and environmental contamination, write Ali Maeve & Liam Barrington-Bush. Yet the London Stock Exchange remains silent. Following the company's AGM last week, a new London Mining Network report puts their actions and operations into the spotlight.

Ecuador is the latest country to tear up 'free trade' agreements that have so far cost the country $21 billion in damages awarded to foreign companies by 'corporate courts', and yielded next to nothing in return, writes Nick Dearden. So the outgoing President Correa did the only sensible thing: in one of his final executive acts this month, he scrapped 16 toxic trade and investment treaties.

Ecological farming has taken root in the UK, writes Phil Moore: drawing inspiration from the past while employing the latest ideas and techniques from organic, no-dig, permaculture, agroecology and agroforestry methods. But with agricultural fields selling for up to £10,000 an acre, there's a big difficultly for many would-be eco-farmers: access to land. Now, with public support, that's a problem the Ecological Land Cooperative is determined to solve.

Natural disasters like flood and drought have cost the Australian government more than A$12 billion since 2009, write Tayanah O'Donnel & Josephine Mummery, with even harsher weather events predicted for coming decades. Clearly, it's just the time for Australia to eliminate funding for research on adapting to climate change.

Between 2011 and 2016 the UK's export finance agency UKEF provided £109m to underwrite exports of equipment to coal mines in Russia, writes Lawrence Carter - despite the agency's commitment not to support 'investment in dirty fossil-fuel energy production'. And that's just a fraction of the £6.9 billion UKEF has lavished on the corrupt, polluting sector since 2000, while it was meant to be backing the clean energy technologies of the future.

The mighty Asian Development Bank is celebrating its 50th birthday this week in Yokohama, Japan, writes Hemantha Withanage. But the victims of ADB's $3 billion coal funding have little to be glad of - whether local communities impacted by mines and power stations, or people everywhere suffering climate change. ADB must stop financing coal now!