Global leaders have made a number of ambitious climate pledges, but it hasn’t quite ushered in the death of coal just yet. Since 2019, commercial banks have dumped as much as $1.5 trillion into the coal industry. financial firms from just six countries are responsible for more than 80% of coal financing and investment. As the global green energy transition has gained traction, the movement away from fossil fuels and toward renewable and low-carbon energy sources has been marked by ups and downs and wide gaps between rhetoric and practice. Public and private leaders of policy and industry alike have been (relatively) quick to make climate pledges and align themselves on the side of decarbonization, but actual action plans and concrete steps toward […]