Tuesday, 17 May 2016

Climate change: Australia's big banks urged to reject new loans for coal projects

Exclusive: Market Forces says halt to refinancing existing loans would also test banks’ support for 2C warming target

Australia’s big four banks could act on their stated ambition to help achieve a 2C warming target simply by giving no new loans to coal projects, analysis by financial activists Market Forces reveals.

Such a move – including a halt to refinancing existing loans – would virtually empty the banks’ loan book of the $8bn they are lending to coal in just five years.

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