
General | January 26, 2023
Financing 1.5°C: Six Trends to Watch in 2023
We expect six key trends to inform financial institutions’ climate strategy design, implementation, and reporting this year.
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Browse The HubWe expect six key trends to inform financial institutions’ climate strategy design, implementation, and reporting this year.
The Climate AIR Toolbox helps financial institutions identify and access the different types of tools, frameworks, and platforms available to measure and report their climate-related alignment, impact, and risk.
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Green steel financing commitments offer a replicable model for climate-aligned finance
How financial institutions can help building decarbonization technologies reach key tipping points.
Six international banks have agreed to measure and publicly disclose the carbon intensity of their steel lending portfolios, in an attempt to push an industry reliant on highly polluting coal towards net-zero emissions.
Six leading banks — Citi, Crédit Agricole CIB, ING, Societe Generale, Standard Chartered, and UniCredit — will measure and disclose their steel-related loan emissions via the Sustainable STEEL Principles (SSP), the first climate-aligned finance agreement for the steel industry.
The Sustainable STEEL Principles (SSP) are the turnkey solution for measuring and disclosing the alignment of steel lending portfolios with 1.5°C climate targets.
The Inflation Reduction Act provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to move us toward a net-zero real estate sector. Financial institutions have the opportunity and the obligation to proactively lead the way to equitably decarbonize the built environment.
How would a climate-aligned finance framework for aviation help decarbonize the sector? The Center's aviation lead Jolene Verheije joined a panel of aviation finance experts to discuss climate alignment
Leading lenders to the global aluminum sector — Citi, ING, and Societe Generale — are working together with RMI to develop a climate-aligned finance framework to help reduce the industry’s hard-to-abate emissions.
Talk about headwinds: the paradox of the aviation sector is that few industries have worked so hard to reduce their environmental impact and yet have so much left to do.
Lucy Kessler, manager at RMI's Center for Climate-Aligned Finance, joined a finance-focused panel discussion at CRU's Steel Decarbonisation Strategies conference on April 28, 2022.