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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jasper Jolly

Mark Carney denies big banks threatened to quit climate finance group

Mark Carney
Mark Carney is now UN special envoy on climate action and finance, as well as founder and leader of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

The former Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, has denied that big banks threatened to leave the climate finance group he leads after it was forced to soften a previous promise to stop financing all coal projects.

Carney said that big US banks had not indicated “any intention” to leave the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), a body Carney set up to aid the transition to an economy with net zero carbon emissions.

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