About the Climate Safe Lending Network

Who We Are:

The Climate Safe Lending Network is an international multi-stakeholder collaborative dedicated to accelerating the decarbonization of the banking sector to secure a climate-safe world. The Network brings together senior leaders and changemakers within banks, NGOs, academics, investors, businesses, and policy experts to collectively explore how they can play their optimum role in accelerating change.


Founding Members:

 
 

Design Team:

  • Fran Boait, Executive Director, Positive Money

  • Lauren Compere, Director, Shareholder Engagement, Boston Common Asset Management

  • Ivan Frishberg, Director of Impact Policy, Sustainability Banking, Amalgamated Bank

  • Alisa Gravitz, CEO/President, Green America

  • Lydia Hascott, Head of Intrapreneurship, The Finance Innovation Lab

  • Leslie Harroun, Executive in Residence & Senior Fellow for Strategic Initiatives, The Democracy Collaborative

  • Tjeerd Krumpelman, Global Head of Advisory, Reporting & Engagement, ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

What we’re working on

Transforming the global banking system to align with the goal of decarbonizing the banking sector for a climate-safe world.

 

Why we’re working toward this goal

Banks have an outsized impact on our planet’s climate. Bank lending is a significant source of finance for fossil fuel development and is responsible for the massive allocation of credit to climate-damaging projects across the globe.

 

How we are approaching this problem

Influencing and enabling banks and bank stakeholders along progressive levels of climate performance leading to total bank decarbonization. 

Our Goal: By 2025, international bank lending is consistent with staying well below a 1.5°C global temperature increase.