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  • HSBC aims to cut financed emissions from oil & gas by 34% by 2030

    22 February 2022

    HSBC has announced emissions reductions targets for 2030 covering pollution financed by its lending activities, which include a 34% cut in oil and gas emissions as well as 75% in the power and utilities sector.

  • HSBC appoints group chief sustainability officer

    17 February 2021

    HSBC has recruited PwC global climate change lead, Celine Herweijer, who will join the UK-based banking group as its chief sustainability officer in July.

  • COP19 to lay foundations for new global climate deal

    11 November 2013

    The climate negotiations that kicked off today in Warsaw are expected to play a crucial role in laying the foundations for a new global agreement in Paris in two years' time.