Six high-street banks given `red´ 警告 over eco 政策s, Which? 明らかにする／漏らすs
Six of the UK’s biggest high-street banks have been placed in a “red” 警告 部類 by 消費者 支持する／優勝者 Which? over their 化石 燃料 投資s and かかわり合いs to 取り組むing 気候 change.
JP Morgan Chase, Santander, Barclays, HSBC, NatWest Group and Lloyds Banking Group were exposed for having too weak green 信任状.
Just three of the UK’s 13 主要な 経常収支 providers earned the Which? Eco Provider badge に引き続いて the 分析 with 非，不，無-利益（をあげる） 研究 会社／堅い 埋め立てる 財政／金融.
Those in the “green” 部類 were 全国的な Building Society, The Co-operative Bank, and Triodos Bank UK.
All three were 設立する to have no （危険などに）さらす to 化石 燃料s in their banking activities.
消費者s wanting to make more 維持できる choices “might want to consider switching banks,” Which? said.
The 分析?covered the banks’ 環境の 政策s, 声明s on 農業の 商品／必需品s such as beef, soy and palm oil, transparency levels, and 的s to 減ずる their （危険などに）さらす to 化石 燃料s.
全世界の banking 巨大（な） JP Morgan Chase was given the lowest total 得点する／非難する／２０ for 肯定的な 環境の 衝撃, at just 16%.
The bank 与える／捧げるd around 434 billion US dollars (£357 billion) in 化石 燃料 財政／金融ing between 2016 and 2022, によれば data sourced for the 分析.
JP Morgan said it was 的ing 1 一兆 dollars (£820 billion) for green 率先s by 2030 to help its （弁護士の）依頼人s 速度(を上げる） up their 移行 to low 炭素 生産（高）.
“As one of the world’s largest 財政上の 会・原則s, we 供給する 財政／金融ing across the energy 部門: supporting energy 安全, helping （弁護士の）依頼人s 加速する their low 炭素 移行 and 増加するing clean energy 財政／金融ing with a 的 of 1 一兆 dollars for green 率先s by 2030,” a spokesperson said.
“In 2021 and 2022, we 財政／金融d or 容易にするd more than 175 billion dollars (£144 billion) に向かって our 的.”
JP Morgan received the lowest 得点する／非難する／２０ from Which? for its 全体にわたる green 信任状 (Yui Mok/PA)
Spanish bank Santander received the second-lowest total 得点する／非難する／２０ of 23%.
Its 化石 燃料 財政／金融ing was far lower, at around 51 billion US dollars (£42 billion) for the same period, but it was 率d 貧しく for its 姿勢 on 化石 燃料s and 農業の 商品／必需品s.
The bank said it had 始める，決める 放出／発行 削減 的s for 2030 across a 範囲 of s ectors within its 貸付金 調書をとる／予約する, such as oil and gas, steel and 航空.
多国籍の banking 巨大（な）s HSBC and Barclays were also red-率d by the 消費者 group.
Barclays is Europe’s biggest 化石 燃料 financier, and it 得点する／非難する／２０d lowly on its coal, oil and gas 政策s.
However, it was the only bank identified by Which? to 始める，決める 2025 的s for 力／強力にする and energy, and it has 供給するd more than £87 billion of green 財政／金融 since 2018.
Barclays said many oil and gas companies are “批判的な” to the 移行 to a low-炭素 商売／仕事 model, and that it can “make the greatest difference by working with 顧客s and （弁護士の）依頼人s” as they change and modernise.
“Where companies are unwilling to 減ずる their 放出／発行s 一貫した with 国祭的な 受託するd pathways, they may find it difficult to 接近 財政／金融ing, 含むing from Barclays,” a spokesperson said.
HSBC received a two-星／主役にする 率ing for its coal, oil and gas 政策s, and is one of the UK’s biggest 化石 燃料 支援者s. However, the bank has 誓約（する）d to stop 供給するing new 財政／金融 for new oil and gas fields.
It 追加するd that its 逮捕する 無 的s are “特に ambitious given our 規模 and 足跡, and we have made good 進歩”.
British banks NatWest and Lloyds received 全体にわたる 得点する／非難する／２０s of 40% and 43% それぞれ, having いっそう少なく 関与 in 財政／金融ing the 化石 燃料 産業 and setting ambitious 的s to 減ずる 放出／発行s.
Lloyds said it was 活発に working with oil and gas （弁護士の）依頼人s to help them 設立する 信頼できる 移行 計画（する）s by the end of 2023, 追加するing: “We know time is 批判的な”.
NatWest said oil and gas accounts for just 0.7% of its balance sheet, and 誓約（する）d to stop 財政／金融ing coal in the UK by October next year and globally by 2030.
全国的な Building Society was one of the three 会社／堅いs given an Eco Provider badge by Which? (マイク Egerton/PA)
一方／合間, building society 全国的な said it was “delighted” to be recognised as a good choice for people looking for a greener provider, and said it has “committed to playing our part in the 移行 to a 逮捕する-無 未来”.
The Co-op Bank, which 始める，決めるs high 倫理的な 基準s for the 商売／仕事, 強調する／ストレスd that it 保留するs 財政／金融 to any 商売／仕事 whose activity 与える／捧げるs to 化石 燃料 extraction or 生産／産物.
Which? 設立する that Triodos 辞退するs to 投資する in 化石 燃料 事業／計画（する）s, and 焦点（を合わせる）s its lending on renewable energy.
“We also go beyon d 除外 and 活発に look for 肯定的な 衝撃… 配達するing 肯定的な change for people and 惑星,” Bevis ワットs, Triodos’s 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある said.
Sam Richardson, 副 editor of Which? Money, said: “消費者s 捜し出すing to make more 維持できる choices might want to consider switching banks if they are uncomfortable with their money 存在 投資するd in the 化石 燃料 産業 and other 事業／計画（する）s which could be 損失ing to the 環境.
“By choosing one of Which?’s three Eco Providers, 顧客s can feel 確信して that their bank has impressive green 信任状 and steers （疑いを）晴らす of 投資するing money in coal, oil or gas.”
