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Irish-based banks invest almost €6bn in climate-harming industries in poorer countries (www.independent.ie)
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[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since they are US banks, they would just move the financing to the US, which is no problem as most of it is already fairly US centric. That is also true for all large EU banks. They all are also in the US and other countries.

The other big problem is that the EU still uses fossil fuels, so cutting it is not possible without causing supply problems, if not done right.

[–] Lugh@futurology.today 1 points 1 year ago

Since they are US banks, they would just move the financing to the US

No, they are in Ireland because the EU requires some of their operations to physically be located in the EU, to have access to the EU single market.