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Magulu ochita zanyengo adadzudzula Bank of America powonetsa "chimodzi mwazitsanzo zoyipa kwambiri zakutsuka kobiriwira kwamakampani" Lachinayi pomwe banki idatulutsa zolinga zanyengo za 2030 - ndikuyika mapulani awo ochepetsa kutulutsa mpweya wa kaboni m'malo mochepetsa kutulutsa kwawo kwathunthu.
Ndi CEO Brian Moynihan kudzinenera banki ikufuna "kuthandiza kuonetsetsa kusintha kwachilungamo, kokhazikika ku tsogolo lokhazikika lomwe tonse tikufuna," bankiyo idalengeza kuti ichepetsa mphamvu ya mpweya wake m'malo motulutsa mpweya wokwanira.
"Zolinga za Bank of America-zokha, zomwe zimatsalira kumbuyo kwa US ndi machitidwe abwino kwambiri padziko lonse lapansi, zimatsimikizira kuchedwa kwa nyengo, pamene nthawi yatsala pang'ono kuchepetsa mpweya wokwanira mu 2030."
Kuchuluka kwa mpweya kumatanthawuza kuchuluka kwa mpweya womwe umayesedwa ndi gawo lina, pomwe lonjezo lochepetsa kutulutsa kokwanira lingafunike Bank of America kuchepetsa kuchuluka kwa mpweya womwe ikutumiza mumlengalenga pakapita nthawi.
"Pogwiritsa ntchito mphamvu za carbon intensity metrics, Bank of America yakhazikitsa momwe mpweya wotenthetsera mpweya upitirire kukwera mpaka 2030 ndipo ikadanenabe kuti yakwaniritsa zolinga zake zanyengo," atero Alec Connon, co- mtsogoleri wa Stop the Money Pipeline Coalition.
Bankiyi idalengeza lonjezo lake pasanathe milungu iwiri pambuyo pa Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) anamasulidwa lipoti lake laposachedwa kwambiri pazovuta zanyengo, kubwereza machenjezo am'mbuyomu akuti kupitilirabe kutulutsa mafuta otsalira - omwe Bank of America adapereka. osachepera $232 biliyoni pazachuma kuyambira 2016โadzayika cholinga cha mgwirizano wanyengo wa Paris chochepetsa kutentha kwapadziko lonse mpaka 1.5ยฐC komwe sikungafikeko.
"M'chilengezo chamasiku ano, Bank of America ikuwonetsa 'mbiri yake ya utsogoleri wanyengo'-ndikuvumbulutsa zolinga za mpweya wa 2030 zomwe ndizovuta kwambiri, zomwe zimagwirizana kwathunthu ndi kukwera kwa mpweya wokwanira komanso kuwonjezereka kwamafuta, makamaka kufutukuka kwa gasi, โ atero a Jason Opeรฑa Disterhoft, wolimbikitsa zanyengo komanso mphamvu wa Rainforest Action Network.
"Zolinga za Bank of America-zokha, zomwe zimatsalira kumbuyo kwa US ndi machitidwe abwino padziko lonse lapansi, zimatsimikizira kuchedwa kwa nyengo, pamene nthawi ikutha kuti achepetse mpweya wokwanira ndi theka pofika chaka cha 2030," anawonjezera.
Bank of America ikumana ndi mavoti pamsonkhano wa omwe akugawana nawo pa Epulo 26, pomwe ena mwamabizinesi ake akupempha banki kuti ipereke malamulo owonetsetsa kuti kubwereketsa ndi kulemba kwake sikumathandizira ntchito zamafuta.
Connon adati akuyembekeza kuti osunga ndalama ku bankiyo "awona kubwerezaku ndikuvota mokomera kusintha kwanyengo."
"Monga anzawo ambiri, Bank of America ikuyesera kuyika malonjezo osamveka bwino komanso njira zowerengera ndalama ngati zochitika zenizeni zanyengo," adatero Ben Cushing, woyang'anira kampeni ku Sierra Club Fossil-Free Finance. "Sayansi ikuwonekeratu kuti kupeza mpweya wokwanira ndi zero pofika chaka cha 2050 kumatanthauza kuyimitsa ndalama zowonjezera mafuta oyaka."
"Kuchepetsa kuchulukitsitsa kwa mpweya komanso kukulitsa ndalama zogulira mafuta opangira mafuta komanso kutulutsa mpweya wokwanira sikukwanira kukwaniritsa cholingacho ndikuthandizira tsogolo lokhazikika lanyengo," adawonjezera.
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