Addressing the climate crisis means following the money. And increasingly the money leads us to one place: the corporate bond market. The bond market has become a safe haven for dirty fossil fuel companies to fund their expansion. Every time investors buy fossil fuel debt they are helping a new coal plant, a new oil and gas pipeline come on line. It's the fuel that drives the expansionary system. It needs to be put out.
The Toxic Bonds initiative is a resource for civil society and media. It exists to help track - and stop - the trillions of dollars of risky debt that is financing the climate crisis. To limit global warming to 1.5 degrees there is no room for new fossil fuel projects. The course of action therefore is clear: financial institutions must deny debt to expansionary fossil fuel companies.
The Toxic Bonds initiative has identified 30 of the top corporations using the bond market to obtain finance to expand coal, oil and gas. Find out more about the Dirty 30 here ➔
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KEPCO needs bonds to keep expanding coal and gas. Investors could stop them.
If we push some of the world's most influential investors TIAA, abrdn and PIMCO to stop buying KEPCO´s bonds it will give them no choice but to speed up the transition to clean energy.
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SumOfUs calls on Banks and Investors: Get Out of Adani
Adani's on a coal mine expansion rampage, with 17 coal mines in the Asia-Pacific region. It will spell certain climate catastrophe. Tell banks, investors, asset managers and pension fund managers to stop financing and supporting Adani.
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The investors who responded on KEPCO
Toxic Bonds
04 Jan 2023
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5 key takeaways from the Toxic Bonds - Launch Webinar
SumOfUs
20 May 2022
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How banks are breaking their Net Zero pledges to finance climate chaos
Read the new report on from Toxic Bonds and the Bank on our Future campaigns
Toxic Bonds & Bank on our Future
12 Jul 2022
Global Oil and Gas Exit List
GOGEL is a database of information on the largest and most controversial oil & gas companies.
Urgewald
30 Nov 2021
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