Teaching Bankers about Climate Change: Scientific American Podcast

The British bank partnered with the Earthwatch Institute and other environmental groups in 2007 to teach bank employees climate science. Their field study is the largest ever about climate change's long-term influence on forests.

Despite the $100 million price tag for the training, the goal is to save money...

Flashback: Barclays and HSBC: making the case for climate action by big banks - ClimateChangeCorp.com

The opportunities for banks from climate change are huge, according to HSBC, one of the world’s biggest banks.

“We can finance a wholesale shift to a low carbon economy”, Jon Williams, head of sustainable development for the bank, told the summit. “Climate change can be tackled at minimal economic cost if we do it today”.