Purchases by banks, airlines, industrial heavyweights and other businesses fell for the first time last year, according to Bloomberg Green's analysis of data in three public registries covering more than 260,000 transactions since 2010. Yet corporate buyers increased purchases of offsets derived from a particularly controversial source — wind, hydro and solar projects.

Banks are taking too long to treat climate and environmental risks as a material threat that can impact their finances, according to the ECB.

The JPMorgan Chase chief says Texas risks undermining its business-friendly reputation with laws designed to punish Wall Street banks for policies that limit work with the gun and fossil-fuel industries.

The move shows Texas governments, major issuers of municipal bonds, are wary of working with banks that state Attorney General Ken Paxton put under review last week in connection with their climate change policies.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office said it's reviewing whether 10 financial companies, including Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase, violate a state law that punishes firms for restricting their work with the oil-and-gas industry because of climate-change concerns.

Far more than most people, financial services professionals ought to understand the compounding crisis of climate change.

The biggest U.S. bank is selling green bonds for the first time in over two years as sales of the debt accelerate at a record pace. 

The goal is to reflect the increasing threat to financial stability that regulators now see from ESG factors such as climate change and inequality.

Long-term business profit is inextricably tied to sustainability. The head of the U.K.'s Chartered Banker Institute explains that financial services leaders have a special responsibility to understand and communicate that fact.

Goldman Sachs Group Chief Executive Officer David Solomon defended the need to support traditional energy companies, batting away demands from climate activists to abandon their clients in that sector.

Protesters who were arrested after blocking the entrances to big-bank offices in New York say they'll keep pushing for action on climate change. "I think the intensity of protests will only grow from what it has been over the last week," one activist said.

The $223 billion-asset bank said it will train its commercial bankers to work with clients to develop decarbonization transition plans. It also committed to reaching carbon neutrality within 12 years.

The former U.S. vice president turned climate crusader says Big Oil and the banks backing it still have huge financial incentives to stick with fossil fuels, even though their decision to do so is the leading cause of the climate crisis.

North American and Chinese banks fared worst in the study, with the Transition Pathway Initiative Global Climate Transition Centre finding that lenders based in Europe and Japan "are far ahead" of others when it comes to taking action on climate change.

Kevin Meyersburg, who is white, says in a lawsuit that the Wall Street investment bank terminated his employment and replaced him with a Black woman who is less qualified for the position. Morgan Stanley declined to comment.

The Attorney General's office found the firm complies with a 2021 state law banning contracts with companies that "discriminate" against the firearm industry.

Most financial firms are failing to see how the natural world impacts their business, but they're about to wise up — quickly. 

Software can help banks move computing workloads to geographic regions where clean energy is available.

The state treasurer's revisions, which shrank the list to six financial firms from 13, includes Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo.