{"id":39976,"date":"2019-07-26T16:58:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T15:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/?p=39976"},"modified":"2019-07-26T17:16:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T16:16:49","slug":"european-investment-bank-moots-fossil-fuel-lending-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2019\/07\/26\/european-investment-bank-moots-fossil-fuel-lending-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"European Investment Bank moots fossil fuel lending ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The world&#8217;s largest development bank is mulling a ban on financing fossil fuel projects, in a move hailed by climate campaigners.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>European Investment Bank (EIB) revealed the strategic shift in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eib.org\/attachments\/draft-energy-lending-policy-26-07-19-en.pdf\">a draft on energy lending policy<\/a>\u00a0on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>If adopted by EU finance ministers on 10 September, the policy will pull the plug on finance for infrastructure dedicated to coal, oil and gas by the end of 2020. Instead, it will pivot to clean energy projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the result of several months of work and it\u2019s also a reflection of the views we have heard from hundreds of stakeholders across Europe as to what the priorities of the European Bank should be when it comes to supporting energy in the future,&#8221; said vice president Andrew McDowell in a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GUvpm7b0Cxs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The main proposals are clear: we want to increase our support for the energy transition in Europe, the decarbonization of the European economy. We want to support more energy efficiency and energy savings projects, we want to help further decarbonize energy supply, through more support for renewable energy. We want to support energy innovation, new technologies that will be necessary in the future to meet ambitious climate and energy commitments. And we need to support more the energy infrastructures of the future, particularly the electrification of the European economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The draft proposes some exemptions including production of biofuels and high-efficiency gas-fired combined heat and power plants.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2019\/07\/23\/weak-carbon-price-worse-no-carbon-price\/\"><strong>Comment:<\/strong> A weak carbon price is worse than no carbon price<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Environmental organisations, which have been calling for such a shift for years, erupted over the news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a crack of light in the darkness,\u201d\u00a0 Colin Roche, fossil free campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe said. \u201cWhile the EU and national governments are floundering as the planet burns, the EU\u2019s public bank has made the brave, correct and just proposal to stop funding fossil fuel projects. We are now urging the European Investment Bank\u2019s board to endorse this step forward, and ensure there are no loopholes for fossil fuel funding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The policy is something the EU could present at the climate action summit convened by UN chief Antonio Guterres in New York on 23 September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaying that their bank is aligning its energy lending with Paris [Agreement] by ruling out fossil-fuel funding, is pretty significant,\u201d Lisa Fischer, a policy advisor at think-tank E3G, told Climate Home News. \u201cIt will set the standard for others to follow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The initiative would also \u201cput a lot of pressure on the European Union to align its infrastructure priorities,\u201d Fischer said.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2019\/07\/22\/guterres-asks-countries-plan-carbon-neutrality-2050\/\"><strong>Guterres<\/strong> asks all countries to plan for carbon neutrality by 2050<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The proposed ban on funding natural gas may meet resistance, Fischer said. Having committed to end coal power by 2038, Germany is eyeing gas as a bridge fuel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know that there&#8217;s a disagreement between ministries in Germany, so that the environment ministry [wants] to exclude fossil fuels, but they&#8217;re not actually holding the pen,&#8221; Fischer said. &#8220;It&#8217;s the economy ministry that is writing the position and sending the finance ministry that will relay it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Romania has not given up on the dream of extracting gas in the Black Sea, despite a spate of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-romania-energy-offshore-analysis\/romanias-black-sea-gas-projects-hanging-by-a-thread-idUSKCN1RD2HS\">recent regulation<\/a> making that task harder. Another country rich in gas, Bulgaria, could also lobby against the proposal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Championed by French economist Pierre Larrouturou and top climate scientist Jean Jouzel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2019\/03\/06\/macron-puts-climate-bank-eu-election-agenda\/\">the idea of an EU bank for climate investments<\/a> has piled pressure on the EU&#8217;s lending arm in the past months. More than 600 political figures backed the initiative, with French president Emmanuel Macron,\u00a0 Spanish president Pedro Sanchez and the pope ranking among its most influential supporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s put a lot of tension on the EIB that wasn\u2019t there beforehand,&#8221; Fischer said. &#8220;The EIB came out saying: \u2018Hang on, we\u2019re the climate bank!\u2019 I think that set the standard and then it was about translating what that means.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year \u20ac16.2 billion euros, or 30% of the EIB&#8217;s lending, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eib.org\/en\/projects\/priorities\/climate-and-environment\/climate-action\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">went towards climate action<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>We\u2019ve changed our rules on republication. 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