The European Investment Bank (EIB), the lending arm of the EU, has vowed to close a loophole that allows it to lend money to oil and gas firms despite a ban on financing fossil fuel projects.
The EIB, the world’s largest multilateral bank, which is active in 160 countries, announced in 2019 it was phasing out lending to fossil fuel projectswithin two years, as it sought to become a “climate bank”.
Although the move was welcomed as a victory for the climate movement, campaign groups said the bank had failed to close several loopholes.
Now the lender has acted to close one inconsistency with the bloc’s climate goals.
From 2022 onwards, the EIB will stop lending to polluting companies that want to finance low-carbon projects. This would mean,
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