The Coal Policy Tool: A Tool for Quitting Coal

(Bank Track, Paris, 6 May 2020) Reclaim Finance has published the most accurate analysis tool ever released regarding policies adopted by French financial players in the coal sector. The aim is twofold: to facilitate the comparison between policies on the same public criteria and to allow clients, media and other stakeholders to assess the gap between existing practices and the objective of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. At the moment, only five French financial players have a robust coal phase-out policy. At least 40 French financial institutions, which belong to 25 financial groups, now have policies restricting their financial services to the thermal coal sector. These numbers are expected to increase following the commitment made in July 2019 by the Paris financial centre that all French financial players must adopt a coal phase-out policy by mid-2020.