{"id":1698,"date":"2007-06-09T16:43:22","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T15:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/09\/climate-change-not-with-my-money\/"},"modified":"2007-12-20T13:45:12","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T12:45:12","slug":"climate-change-not-with-my-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2007\/06\/09\/climate-change-not-with-my-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change? Not with my money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.milieudefensie.nl\/klimaat\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"070611_klimaat.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/070611_klimaat.jpg\" title=\"070611_klimaat.jpg\" alt=\"070611_klimaat.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Investments by Dutch banks cause more than three times the CO2 emissions that the Netherlands emits annually. The banks invest over twenty times more in projects that harm the climate such as oil extraction and coal-fired plants, than in projects for climate friendly renewable energy.  ABN AMRO is the worst  performing Dutch bank with the biggest climate impact. These are the findings of a Friends of the Earth Netherlands (Milieudefensie) report published today. With the slogan \u201cClimate Change? Not with my money!\u201d, the environmental organisation is calling on consumers to switch to a climate friendly bank. Milieudefensie has launched the website, www.nietmetmijngeld.nl (\u201cnot with my money\u201d), calling for climate conscious banking. \u201cBanks have an enormous climate impact. Their investments in fossil fuels cause 594 million tonnes of greenhouse gas CO2 emissions. This is more than three times the amount that the Netherlands emits in a year, \u201c says Donald Pols of Friends of the Earth Netherlands.  \u201cThe 6.9 billion euros that banks invest in renewable energy are peanuts compared to the 118 billion euros that they invest in fossil fuels.\u201d The banks are not very open about the impact of their investments on the climate. Milieudefensie&#8217;s report is the first overview to date comparing these investments. Image source: milieudefensie.nl<\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| Country: <\/span>Netherlands <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| Company: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=6\"><span name=\"intelliTxt\" id=\"intelliTXT\"><\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=5\"><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><\/span><\/a><span class=\"LinkBluePgtMedium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=7\">ABN AMRO<\/a>, Triodos Bank, ASN Bank<\/span> <span name=\"intelliTxt\" id=\"intelliTXT\"><\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| <\/span>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milieudefensie.nl\/klimaat\" target=\"_blank\">Milieudefensie \/ Banktrack<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investments by Dutch banks cause more than three times the CO2 emissions that the Netherlands emits annually. The banks invest over twenty times more in projects that harm the climate such as oil extraction and coal-fired plants, than in projects for climate friendly renewable energy. ABN AMRO is the worst performing Dutch bank with the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-abn-amro","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}