'Dirty little secret': Finance sector revealed as one of UK's biggest contributors to climate change

The new research points towards finance as one of the UK's largest contributors to climate change and supports calls for regulation to be introduced across the sector to bring it into line with Paris Agreement targets.  UK banks and asset managers financed carbon emissions that were 1.8 times the annual net emissions of the UK as a whole, the report reveals, placing UK finance at the same level as oil and gas extraction, coal mining, aviation and transport, high-carbon sector. Greenpeace UK's executive director John Sauven, said: "Finance is the UK's dirty little secret. Banks and inv...