
001
CREATE SHORT-TERM REDUCTION TARGETS
Present short-term fossil fuel financing reduction targets and implementation plans that cover all of their financial services.
Many banks are making vague net zero commitments for 2050, but every year counts – and 2050 is too late. Banks should be setting clear targets to phase out fossil fuels and cut the emissions they finance, across all their lines of business: investments, bonds, and lending.

002
STOP FUNDING NEW FOSSIL FUELS
Integrate the findings of the IEA Net Zero scenario into their climate strategies, including a ban on financing new fossil fuel projects or financing companies expanding fossil fuel production.
The International Energy Agency’s 2021 Net Zero Emissions Scenario states that to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, there’s no room for further fossil fuel development. Banks need to align this scenario with their climate strategies, and rule out reliance on discredited offsetting and other unproven carbon dioxide removal schemes.

003
IMMEDIATELY PHASE OUT ALL COAL
Immediately phase out financing of thermal coal companies, including utilities without short-term plans to shut coal, and make a plan to phase out oil and gas financing.
Coal is on its way out. Its dirty extraction is on a downward trend, but banks should be stamping it out a lot faster. The bigger danger is oil and gas extraction, which banks are still financing across the world. That's why, together, we're pushing banks to scrap all fossil fuel funding.

004
PROTECT INDIGENOUS RIGHTS AND BIODIVERSITY
Ensure the free, prior, and informed consent of Indigenous communities and their lands in all financing activities.
Indigenous peoples have long lived in harmony with their lands, but many fossil fuel projects are threatening the land and way of life. Banks must only fund clean energy activities that respect Indigenous rights to free, prior, and informed consent.