Leading banks in Europe 2020, by fossil fuel policy score

Despite growing pressure on governments and banks to focus energy financing towards greener paths, some of the world's biggest banks have continued to increase their financing into companies active in the fossil fuel life cycle. In a 2021 report released by the Rainforest Action Network (ran.org), 60 of the world's largest banks put approximately 3.8 trillion U.S. dollars into financing fossil fuel companies between 2016 and 2020.The bank policy score looks at how well each of the banks included have climate policies in alignment of the Paris Agreement. Banks were scored out of 200 on their policies to both end the financing of fossil fuel expansion and the phasing out overall of fossil fuel financing. Even the Italian banking giant Unicredit, whose bank policy score was higher than any of the other European banks included, was far below aligning with the goals set in the Paris Agreement. The total value of financing to fossil fuel companies by 17 of Europe's largest banks in 2020 came to nearly 190 billion U.S. dollars.

尽管全球范围内对政府和银行施加压力，要求将能源融资重点转向绿色路径，但世界上一些最大的银行仍持续增加对活跃于化石燃料生命周期公司的融资。在2021年雨林行动网络（ran.org）发布的报告中，全球60家最大银行在2016年至2020年期间，大约投入了3.8万亿美元用于化石燃料公司的融资。银行政策评分考察了每家银行在气候政策方面与《巴黎协定》的契合程度。银行的政策得分满分为200分，评分标准包括终止化石燃料扩张的融资以及逐步淘汰整体化石燃料融资。即便是意大利银行业巨头UniCredit，其银行政策评分高于所有其他欧洲银行，但与《巴黎协定》设定的目标相比，仍相去甚远。2020年，欧洲17家最大银行对化石燃料公司的融资总额接近1900亿美元。