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Articles by Adele Shraiman
Federal regulators approve final principles for climate-related financial risk management for large financial institutions
WASHINGTON - On Tuesday, three major federal financial regulators — the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) — announced their interagency guidance on principles for climate-related risk management for large financial institutions. This is the first intervention from U.S. regulators intended to protect the financial system from climate-related risks.
Green Central Banking
The six largest Wall Street banks, under fire for being among the world’s biggest funders of fossil fuels, are making commitments to align their financing with the goal of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050.
One silver lining in otherwise disappointing shareholder season at big US banks
Home › Partner news › By: Sierra Club Contact: By Jessye Waxman and Adele Shraiman, Sierra Club Activists rally outside the San Francisco headquarters of Wells Fargo during the bank's annual meeting in April 2023.
Big banks are breaking their promise to fund a green energy transition
For years, banks have argued that to drive the energy transition, they need to preserve relationships with major energy companies. They insist that continuing to finance fossil fuel companies is not contradictory to their climate commitments. But in...
Despite their climate commitments, the world’s biggest banks are still pouring billions into fossil fuels
In the seven years since the Paris Agreement was signed, companies and governments around the world have pledged to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and help drive the transition to a more sustainable economy. Banks too, have joined in – most major global banks have now committed to reaching net-zero financed emissions by 2050. But despite making headlines with splashy new climate pledges, the world’s biggest banks are carrying on with business as usual.
As peak hurricane season looms, banks bolster cozy relationship with fossil fuel industry
Over the past several decades, the oil and gas industry promised to bring economic prosperity to the Gulf Coast. Instead, it brought financial instability and increasing climate disasters, and forced local communities to pay the price. As a result of the fossil fuel industry’s pollution, people living in the Gulf Coast face a growing number of climate-driven natural disasters like hurricanes and flooding.
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