Imagine a world where, instead of financing fossil fuels and deforestation, banks invest in climate-positive solutions, such as sustainable agriculture, electric vehicle networks, and renewable energy initiatives.
Check out these five fossil-free banking services doing just that and switch today!
Posts by Bank.Green
Learn how to take action at bankfornature.org 💚
Take Action: Stop Funding Factory Farms
Banks don’t just fund fossil fuels. Many also finance industrial animal agriculture, a major driver of deforestation, biodiversity loss, water pollution and climate emissions. 🌍
#ClimateAction #ClimateFinance #ProtectNature #BankingOnChange
Share this post so others see where their money really goes, and how easy it is to choose better. Find a fossil-free bank at www.bank.green. 💸
HSBC provided $192.2 billion to fossil fuel firms from 2016-2023, contributing $5.3 billion in 2023 alone. Despite its net-zero pledge, they have moved backwards on climate commitments. 🌡️
#ClimateAction #ClimateFinance #FossilFuels #BankingOnChange
Triodos Bank makes sure your money is invested in ethical and sustainable ways. They uphold high standards of transparency and fund a wide range of innovative social, cultural, and environmental projects.🏅
How green is your bank?💚
The question isn’t whether your money is used, but how. 🌡️
Demand better from your bank and help us shift money away from fossil fuels by joining our cause at www.bank.green. 💚
What is the link between my bank account and climate change? 💸🌍
When your money goes into a bank, they use deposits to fund investments, too often including backing fossil fuel projects. 🛢️
#ClimateAction #ClimateFinance #FossilFuels #BankingOnChange
We love it when one of the frontrunners in sustainable banking raises the bar 👏
Triodos Bank has launched its first combined Climate and Nature Strategy, aiming for real impact by 2030.
Curious to find out how your bank is supporting the planet? Visit Bank.Green
See where your money goes and find a fossil-free bank with bank.green. 💸
Bank of America is one of the world’s biggest fossil fuel funders. Since the Paris Agreement, they have poured $333 billion into fossil fuels. Despite making a net-zero pledge in 2021, they remain the largest coal mining financier in North America, backing $1.5 billion in 2023.🛢️
Charity Bank was set up in order to provide funding to charities and social enterprises, so there is zero chance your savings deposit would be funding climate chaos!
It is a company whose mission is to care as much about the planet and the people. 🫂
How green is your bank?💚
If you’d like to keep your bank accountable about their involvement in the climate crisis, you can start by calling them! We’ll walk you through raising your concerns in our post 💚
#ClimateFinance #ClimateAction #BeTheChange #SustainableBanking
Calling Your Bank Is a Climate Action 📣
Banks track complaints, so calls signal reputational risk and demand for fossil-free banking, impacting real decisions.
We'll share how to make this call soon 💚
#ClimateAction #ClimateFinance #FossilFree #BankingOnChange
🌟Climate finance is the lifeblood of climate action🌟
Another quote for our Voices of Change series from Executive Secretary to the UNFCCC, Simon Stiell. 🔊
💚 To read the full quote and more, see here: buff.ly/O8xxW5g
#ClimateFinance #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange
💚 Excerpts from Grist's “How Chevron played the long game in Venezuela” by Lois Parshley: buff.ly/W8I70Do
As leaders chase “tremendous wealth” beneath Venezuela’s soil, the environmental reality is ignored. Extra-heavy crude can emit up to 4× more CO₂ and relies on aging, leak-prone infrastructure. With falling public royalties, local communities pay the price. 🛢️🌡️
🌎 THE PLANETARY COST OF UNLOCKING VENEZUELA’S OIL
Venezuela’s crisis can’t be solved by oil alone, especially not at the expense of a stable planet. 🌿
#ClimateNews #BigOil #ClimateFinance #ClimateCrisis
Walden Mutual Bank prides itself on being the first bank to be fully approved by the FDIC in 50 years. Serving individuals, businesses and nonprofits, your deposit would be used to effect positive, lasting change in local food ecosystems. 🧑🌾
How green is your bank? 💚
At Bank.Green, we believe banks aren’t being challenged enough by their customers. Collective pressure can push them to divest from damaging projects and invest in sustainable alternatives.
Join us and demand better from your bank: bank.green 🌍
Who’s behind Bank.Green? 💚
We’re a group of volunteers united by the belief that banks must change quickly. While people work on solutions to the climate crisis, our money still flows into industries that harm the planet.
#BankGreen #ClimateAction #EthicalFinance #FossilFreeFinance #PeoplePower
So you’ve learned that your bank is financing the fossil fuel industry🔥💰🔥 and you don’t wish to support that. But you’re busy, and the idea of bank switching makes your head hurt. Not to worry! It’s truly not that difficult. And you don’t have to do it all in one day.
🌟Climate Finance is not charity- it’s smart economics🌟
Starting our Voices of Change 🔊 series with a quote from Executive Secretary to the UNFCCC, Simon Stiell.
💚To read the full quote and more, go to unfccc.int/news/climate...
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange
Learn more here: buff.ly/yFTjNlc
People deserve a voice in systems shaping their lives, including finance.
With the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation (@pjmfdn.bsky.social), Bank.Green is building Watchtower, an AI tool enabling public scrutiny of banks’ climate commitments.
#PJMFImpact2025 #AIForPublicPurpose
While you’ve been saving money for a house, JPMorgan Chase has been using your savings to provide financial support to its fossil fuel friends. In the 8 years since the Paris Agreement, this bank has funneled $431 billion into coal, oil, and gas, rapidly accelerating the climate crisis. 🔥
For more information:
Blog: buff.ly/2qBmaN6
Press Release: buff.ly/D25qZEs