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As a climate-conscious consumer, it's important to understand that where you choose to store your money can have an outsized impact on your carbon footprint. That's because most of the time, your money is not just sitting idly in your bank account, but it is being used to create loans for projects that can either harm or benefit the planet.

The environmental impact of this can often be far greater than that of other climate actions you might take, so it's critical to prevent this factor from working against your overall efforts to secure a better future for the planet. To help you to align your money with your values, below we are curating a constantly-updated list of financial institutions that are dedicated to offering sustainable banking services. Below the list, you will find frequently asked questions to help guide your choice.

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Find and compare the service offerings of ethical and sustainable banks.

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We have made the headline results from our Multi-regional Input-Output model (MRIO) freely available, along with best practice guidance on its use in supply chain emissions assessments and on its integration with Life Cycle Analysis. We have done this to enable robust, transparent, practical and compatible company supply chain emissions reporting.

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In our paper, "GWP*: Applications & Misapplications," we focus on methane emissions' distinct role in global warming. Exploring CO 2 and methane differences, we caution against GWP* misuse. In the context of agriculture, we stress the need to consider land use and water footprints for improved sustainable land management and food systems.

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We prioritise the areas where we think we can have the most leverage. These include business transition, carbon reduction, carbon modelling, technology, research & education, communication, sustainable investment and food & land use.

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Small World Consulting | Sustainability Consultancy | Mike Berners-Lee | Bailrigg, Lancaster University, UK

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Small World Consulting exists as a response to the climate and ecological emergency. Leading scope 3 carbon accounting specialists and sustainability strategy consultancy based in the North West of England.

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Octopus customers pay less: Cheaper than price-cap prices, rewards for using less when the grid is stressed, and smart tariff savings for your home, car or battery

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1. Watch Sir David Attenborough's documentary Climate Change - The Facts (1 hour)

For non-UK learners, please see the link to the documentary on Vimeo here.

If you are short of time, there are shorter clips on YouTube.

2. Complete the personal Carbon Footprint Calculator (15 minutes).

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1. Explore Carbon Map (5 mins)

2. Watch How can business survive climate change? | The Economist (20mins) and COP26 Mia Mottley PM of Barbados and/or Vinisha Umashankar – Earthshot winner (both 5-6mins)

3. Read Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity' - BBC News and 10 Big Findings from the 2023 IPCC Report on Climate Change (WRI)

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Lighthouse Reading List

How Bad are Bananas?  - Mike Berners-Lee

There is No Planet B - Mike Berners-Lee

Drawdown - The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming - Paul Hawkin

The Future We Choose - The Stubborn Optimist’s Guide to the Climate Crisis – Christiana Figueres / Tom Rivett-Carnac

Net Positive - Paul Polman

You Can't Make Money From a Dead Planet: The Sustainable Method for Driving Profit - Mark Shayler

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231117 ClimatePartner - CCF - The History Channel - CCF 2022 - corrected - Green Energy London Office (2)

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Food facts and infographics from Fork Ranger

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Food facts and infographics from Fork Ranger

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Explore how to eat for the climate. Answer fun quizzes and unlock easy recipes to put knowledge into action.

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Calculate your environmental footprint and learn how you can reduce your impact with WWF's Footprint Calculator.

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Lighthouse is based on firm foundations. We have been guiding businesses from start-ups to household names for 25 years and along the way we have gained a crew of knowledgeable, resourceful, and insightful people, who we can rely on to give the best advice and support.

Emma, the founder of Lighthouse, loves to train people. She’s on a mission to train an army of individuals who can give us the best chance of minimising our future impact on the planet. Since 2021, Emma has led the team to deliver more than 90 courses and train more than 1000 learners.

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BBC Radio 4 - 39 Ways to Save the Planet

Outrage and Optimism

Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts

TED Climate

My Climate Diet

BBC World Service- The Climate Question

For What It’s Earth

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Ecosia uses the ad revenue from your searches to plant trees where they are needed the most. By searching with Ecosia, you're not only reforesting our planet, but you're also empowering the communities around our planting projects to build a better future for themselves. Give it a try!

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"Empowering young people is what I've been all about for so long, beginning our roots and shoots program, back in 1991, with 12 high school students. [...] Young people, such as those who are here today, such as all of you who took part in this competition."
Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, ClimateScience Olympiad Finals Ceremony, COP26 Glasgow.
"Empowering young people is what I've been all about for so long, beginning our roots and shoots program, back in 1991, with 12 high school students. [...] Young people, such as those who are here today, such as all of you who took part in this competition."
Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, ClimateScience Olympiad Finals Ceremony, COP26 Glasgow.

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Navigating the 1.5 Degrees Breach
Image credit: Photo by Pixabay. In 2023, the world witnessed an onslaught of extreme weather events, ranging from severe droughts and scorching heatwaves to devastating wildfires...

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Climate Action Tracker - Assessment of global progress against Paris Agreement

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Climate Action Tracker - Assessment of global progress against Paris Agreement

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We rate the EU's policies and action as "Almost sufficient". The upper bound of our policies and action emissions projection range is based on policies reported by member states as of March 2022, which would result in an emissions reduction of around 35% (excl. LULUCF) below 1990 by 2030. The bottom end of the range is based on policies adopted at the EU level, including the stronger binding renewable energy (42.5%) and energy efficiency targets, which would result in reducing emissions by 55% (excl. LULUCF). If the enhanced LULUCF sink is taken into consideration, net emissions in the EU would decrease by 60%, taking the EU beyond its emissions reduction target of "at least 55%". Consideration of the indicative renewable energy target (of a further 2.5%) for 2030 reduces emissions even further to 57% (excl. LULUCF) and 61% (incl. LULUCF).

In late 2022 and early 2023, the EU amended its key climate regulations, adopting stronger targets including:

Increasing the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) emissions reduction target from 43% to 62% below 2005 levels by 2030.

Increasing the emissions reduction target in the Effort Sharing Regulation from 30% to 40% below 2005 levels by 2030.

Strengthening its renewable energy target from a 32% share [of total energy] to 42.5% by 2030, with an additional 2.5% "indicative" target.

Cutting its final energy demand from 846 Mtoe to 763 Mtoe in 2030.

Expanding the size of its land sector sink target from 225 MtCO₂e to 310 MtCO₂e.

From 2027 onwards, a parallel scheme will be established under the EU ETS to cover buildings and transport.

Member states still need to adopt policies implementing these targets. In their National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs), they have to propose their national targets for the share of renewable energy and energy consumption that would result in at least the targets agreed in the respective directive for the EU as a whole. Drafts of these plans are to be submitted by the end of June 2023.

Along with the major policy changes, the EU has also simplified permitting procedures for investments in renewable energy, batteries, and electricity grid development. While the impact of these measures will only be visible in the coming years, already in 2022 investment in renewables increased significantly, especially for solar energy and heat pumps. However, while the installed capacity in wind energy - both offshore and onshore - has also increased, a significant drop in new investments indicates a temporary slowdown in the sector. As a result of the accelerated deployment of renewable energy and energy savings, driven to a large degree by high energy prices, the expected return to coal, especially during the winter 2022/2023, did not materialise.

In the case of the majority of low-carbon technologies, especially solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries, the EU is to a large degree dependent on imports from other countries. This has the potential to exacerbate bottlenecks if trade flows are interrupted. To mitigate this challenge, the Commission proposed the Net Zero Industry Act in March 2023, which sets the goal of covering at least 40% of selected low carbon technologies with domestic manufacturing. This is a step in the right direction as it will increase the supply of products necessary to meet EU's emissions reduction goals and decrease their costs due to economies of scale.

NOTE: We have modified our data projections for the EU to reflect policy developments, essentially incorporating what our November 2022 update showed as planned policies, which have since been adopted. We have not updated our historical emissions to reflect the latest inventory data. We will update our projections for the EU fully later this year after the publication of the "Trends and Projections" by the European Environment Agency in Q4 of 2023.

The full policies and action analysis can be found here.

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Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

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Carbon dioxide (CO ₂) is an important heat-trapping gas, also known as a greenhouse gas, that comes from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels (such as coal, oil, and natural gas), from wildfires, and natural processes like volcanic eruptions. The first graph shows atmospheric CO ₂ levels measured by NOAA at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii, since 1958. The second graph shows CO ₂ levels during Earth's last three glacial cycles, as captured by air bubbles trapped in ice sheets and glaciers.

Since the onset of industrial times in the 18th century, human activities have raised atmospheric CO ₂ by 50% - meaning the amount of CO ₂ is now 150% of its value in 1750. This human-induced rise is greater than the natural increase observed at the end of the last ice age 20,000 years ago.

The animated map shows how the historical changes in global carbon dioxide over time. Note the colors change as the amount of CO ₂ rises from 365 parts per million (ppm) in 2002 to over 420 ppm currently. It's important to understand that "parts per million" refers to the number of carbon dioxide molecules per million molecules of dry air. These measurements are from the mid-troposphere, the layer of Earth's atmosphere that is 8 to 12 kilometers (about 5 to 7 miles) above the ground. This data provides insights into the significant rise in atmospheric CO2 concentrations, highlighting the impact of human activities on Earth's climate.

CO₂ Through the Seasons

A closer look at the carbon dioxide measurements at Mauna Loa shows a series of wiggles in the data. Although total CO ₂ is increasing each year, there is also a short-term cycle visible within the larger trend.

This annual rise and fall of CO ₂ levels is caused by seasonal cycles in photosynthesis on a massive scale. In Northern Hemisphere spring, plants come to life and draw in CO ₂ to fuel their growth. This begins the process of lowering the amount of CO ₂ in the atmosphere. In northern autumn, plant growth stops or slows down, and the whole process reverses itself. Much of the plant matter decomposes, releasing CO ₂ back to the atmosphere.

A similar but less intense pattern repeats in the Southern Hemisphere in opposite seasons. Spring growth starts in September and winter decomposition begins in March, so CO ₂ records in the Southern Hemisphere show the opposite pattern of that seen in Mauna Loa. However, because there is a lot more land and vegetation in the Northern Hemisphere than the southern, the global seasonal cycle more closely aligns with the northern pattern.

See the cycle in action in the visualization Watching Earth Breathe: The Seasonal Vegetation Cycle and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide.

This boom-and-bust cycle of plant growth gives the graph of CO ₂ a sawtooth pattern of ups and downs from year to year. At a larger scale, the upward climb of the trend line over the decades is caused by CO ₂ emissions, primarily from burning fossil fuels. Thus, the data illustrate both natural factors and human additions of CO ₂.

Learn more:

NASA's Climate Kids: Why is Carbon Important?

Missions That Observe CO₂
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-3)

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Carbon Dioxide Concentration | NASA Global Climate Change

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Vital Signs of the Planet: Global Climate Change and Global Warming. Current news and data streams about global warming and climate change from NASA.

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A+E Networks Carbon Literacy for Business- Session 1

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1. A+E Networks Carbon Literacy for Business- Session 1 PDF

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A+E Networks Carbon Literacy for Business - Session 2

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2. A+E Networks Carbon Literacy for Business - Session 2

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Slide references for Carbon Literacy for Business Course- Sessions 1 & 2

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Slide references for Carbon Literacy for Business Course- Sessions 1 & 2