NGO’en Reclaim Finance er ude med en hård kritik af Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) nye retningslinjer for finansielle institutioner. Ifølge Reclaim Finance indebærer SBTi-retningslinjerne, at finansielle virksomheder i praksis kan få godkendt deres netto-nul klimamål, samtidig med at de finansierer fossil ekspansion.
Reclaim Finance fastslår, at hvis SBTi fastholder retningslinjerne, vil de opgive deres “videnskabsbaserede” ambitioner og opfordrer derfor SBTi til at sikre, at finansielle institutioner ikke kan få klimamål godkendt, samtidig med at de støtter fossil ekspansion.
Paul Schreiber, Senior Policy Advisor hos Reclaim Finance, udtaler: “It is quite shocking to see the Science-based target initiative cave in to pressure from financial institutions. By going back on their decision to get their decarbonization targets validated by the initiative, banks recently signaled they would do anything to avoid binding criteria that would force them to restrict their support to fossil fuel companies. But the fact that powerful financial institutions are unfaithful to their own climate commitments should not have driven the SBTi to give up on the mountain of scientific evidence that underpins the need to immediately end fossil fuel development. Without a swift review, the standard can no longer claim to be “science-based”.
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