Nobody wants to admit to caring about the climate anymore, and yet clean tech financing is booming, making a mint for investors. Trump is betting the future on a shrinking pot. The smart money is going green.
Nobody wants to admit to caring about the climate anymore, and yet clean tech financing is booming, making a mint for investors. Trump is betting the future on a shrinking pot. The smart money is going green.
“Climate and money are too often divorced in our imaginations, the assumption being that you can’t make money or properly run an economy and keep the climate from imploding at the same time. People who actually handle money for a living could tell you otherwise.
“Debt-financing fees for fossil-fuel projects dropped to the second-lowest total during a four-year stretch in which green bonds have consistently been a bigger money maker for banks than oil, gas and coal debt.”
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From Bloomberg (gift link above):
“Climate and money are too often divorced in our imaginations, the assumption being that you can’t make money or properly run an economy and keep the climate from imploding at the same time. People who actually handle money for a living could tell you otherwise.
“Banks, for example, [made more money](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-02/banks-notch-higher-fees-from-green-bonds-than-fossil-fuel-debt?srnd=undefined&sref=ZtdQlmKR) last year securing loans and bonds for clean-energy projects than they did for fossil fuels, Bloomberg’s Tim Quinson reported last week.
“Debt-financing fees for fossil-fuel projects dropped to the second-lowest total during a four-year stretch in which green bonds have consistently been a bigger money maker for banks than oil, gas and coal debt.”