Banks Should Not Exit Polluting Industries, but Help the Transition

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We tend to interpret the economic impacts of climate change in terms of droughts, heat waves or low river levels, but the real question is much broader: how will energy production, infrastructure, agriculture, real estate and transport change in the coming decades? The role of banks in this process goes far beyond providing loans for individual investments. Through financing decisions, they can accelerate the spread of working technologies, help…