Top Aussie banks slow lending to carbon-intensive projects
Aug 14 (Reuters) -Leading Australian banks are stepping up efforts to reduce their carbon footprint and align with global climate goals by slowing lending to carbon-intensive projects.
The country's biggest lender, Commonwealth Bank of Australia CBA.AX, plans to reduce emissions associated with its loans or investments to zero by 2030 for thermal coal mining customers, it said on Wednesday.
National Australia Bank NAB.AX, the country's top business lender, said on Wednesday it will not finance new-to-bank thermal coal mining customers or new thermal coal mining projects.
Australia's ruling Labor Party aims to have 82% of the country's power coming from renewables by 2030, up from around 40% now and also seeks to reduce carbon emissions by 43% from 2005 levels. For the long term, the party envisions a mostly-renewable energy system anchored by batteries and flexible gas generation.
National Australia Bank, which as of September 2023 had no corporate lending to thermal coal mining customers or project finance for thermal coal mining assets, intends to hold this stance into the future.
The lender has also announced a dozen decarbonisation targets, including for the power generation, thermal coal and oil and gas sectors, and said it is increasing financing to renewable-powered generation.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia flagged the challenges Australia is facing in replacing aging coal-fired power stations with renewables as large-scale renewable energy and transmission projects take longer to become operational.
"Despite coal-fired power generation becoming less commercially attractive, some planned coal-fired retirements are being delayed to maintain reliable power to Australia's electricity grid," CBA said.
Reporting by Echha Jain in Bengaluru; Editing by Mrigank Dhaniwala
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