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2025-01-06

Bank.Green Receives $250,000 Grant from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation to Scale Watchtower, a Tool for Climate Accountability

Bank.Green has received a $250,000 grant from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation to scale Watchtower, an AI-powered tool that exposes gaps between banks' climate pledges and their actual financing. Watchtower helps journalists, researchers, and advocates hold financial institutions accountable by tracking policy changes and flagging potential greenwashing.

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2024-11-01

Bank.Green's New Report Highlights Widespread Climate Failures Across US Banking Sector

Bank.Green's latest report reveals alarming gaps in transparency and climate accountability among the 90 largest US banks. With the majority of institutions rated poorly on climate policies and accountability, the findings highlight widespread fossil fuel financing and raise concerns about greenwashing in the sector.

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2024-04-22

Bank.Green Releases Groundbreaking Climate Performance Rankings for UK Banks

Bank.Green’s latest report ranks 103 UK banks on their climate performance, revealing unexpected leaders and highlighting institutions lagging behind in decarbonization. The findings call attention to banks' fossil fuel financing and transparency, empowering consumers to make sustainable banking choices.

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2021-04-05

Bank.Green launches website, campaign sounding alarm on banks funding fossil fuels

Launched today, campaign group Bank.Green’s inaugural Money Movement campaign sounds the alarm on the banking industry’s climate-destroying activities while offering ordinary people a way to investigate their banks.

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2021-10-29

Bank.Green launches COP26 campaign empowering consumers to switch from banks financing foissil fuels

As the world looks to Glasgow and COP26, new campaign group Bank.Green is seizing the moment with its “Swap for COP” campaign, encouraging bank customers to move their money away from banks that continue to finance fossil fuels on Nov 15.

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2022-02-09

Bank.Green announces the Fossil Free Banking Alliance

Today, sustainable banking campaign group Bank.Green is announcing its latest initiative, the Fossil Free Banking Alliance. The alliance will help climate-conscious individuals to more easily move their money away from banks that finance the fossil fuels industry: any retail bank that is a member of this growing group has been Fossil Free Certified by Bank.Green.

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