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New York pension demand tougher climate emissions rules from banks

by Segun Ogunlade January 26, 2023
written by Segun Ogunlade January 26, 2023
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Top Wall Street banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co and Bank of America will be required to set stricter 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets for portfolio companies according to the new shareholder resolutions by New York City’s top pension official.

Investors’ climate commitments would be tested if the advisory proposals come to a vote at bank shareholder meetings this spring, after setbacks in 2022 when calls for more dramatic cuts in fossil fuel financing put forward by other climate activists won slim support.

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, who filed the new resolutions this year, said he aims to put up measures that have a strong chance of winning majority support. Many investors “want to see companies’ net-zero commitments be made real,” Lander said in an interview.

Read also: Study says enacting net-zero policies will reduce the death rate in UK

Although few big investors have embraced calls to divest from the fossil fuel sector amid rising energy prices, New York City’s funds have been among the most aggressive in pushing energy companies away from fossil fuels and Republican officials in states including Texas and Florida have sought to deny business to certain financial companies over their treatment of fossil fuel producers.

The new resolutions will require banks to commit to reducing emissions in their energy lending and underwriting, following in the example of Citigroup (C.N) which puts regulations in place for emissions across its energy loan portfolio to drop 29% by 2030 from 2020.

Currently, the other three banks have goals to reduce the “emissions intensity” of their financing, a measure of emissions relative to output that climate activists say does not go far enough.

The banks’ role in cutting global emissions is part of a debate about their obligations as members of the Net Zero Banking Alliance, a United Nations-backed effort to encourage decarbonization and to reach net-zero emissions from banks’ lending and investment portfolios by 2050 to limit the rise of global temperatures.

Story was adapted from Reuters.

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