The focus on the link between our financial system and the climate crisis is growing ever stronger as a new report published this week by portfolio.earth reveals. Bankrolling Extinction, provides new evidence exposing the world’s largest investment banks have invested more than £1.9 trillion in activity linked to the destruction of ecosystems and wildlife in 2019 alone. This is on top of the £158 billion in financing for fossil fuels Barclays and HSBC have provided since the Paris Agreement was signed.
— source portfolio.earth, positivemoney.org | 2020/10