
银行自2020年以来向导致热带森林砍伐和生态系统破坏的企业贷款高达5950亿美元,环保组织联盟委托的研究于周三显示。
Banks have lent as much as $595 billion since 2020 to companies that contribute to tropical deforestation and ecosystem destruction, research commissioned by a coalition of environmental groups showed on Wednesday.
森林与金融联盟在其年度《生物多样性崩溃中的银行》报告中称,银行在2020年至2025年期间向“高风险”农业商品企业贷款共计3510亿美元,向矿业公司贷款另计2440亿美元。
The Forests & Finance coalition said in its annual Banking on Biodiversity Collapse report that banks lent a total of $351 billion to "high-risk" agricultural commodity firms and another $244 billion to mining companies from 2020 to 2025.
“这些行业是南美洲、东南亚以及中非和西非热带森林流域森林砍伐、土地退化和社区冲突的主要驱动力,”报告称。
"These sectors are the primary drivers of deforestation, land degradation and community conflict across the tropical forest basins of South America, Southeast Asia and Central and West Africa," it said.
“发放最高风险信贷的银行仍未具备足够的保障措施来缓解严重环境和社会危害的风险,”报告称。
Banks "issuing the most high-risk credit still do not have adequate safeguards to mitigate the risks of serious environmental and social harm," it said.
在热带森林资源丰富的国家运营的矿业公司的年度贷款和承销额从2016年的237亿美元增加到2025年的367亿美元,增长55%,锂和镍融资增长最为显著。
Annual lending and underwriting to mining companies operating in tropical-forest-rich countries rose 55% between 2016 and 2025, from $23.7 billion to $36.7 billion, with the biggest increases in lithium and nickel financing.
农业商品的年度森林风险融资自2016年以来也加速增长71%,从379亿美元增至647亿美元,其中牛肉行业融资增长超过50%,大豆增长137%,纸浆和造纸增长157%。
Annual forest-risk financing for agricultural commodities has also accelerated by 71% since 2016, from $37.9 billion to $64.7 billion, with beef industry financing up more than 50%, soy up 137% and pulp and paper up 157%.
银行自2020年以来向印度尼西亚的纸浆和棕榈油行业提供了671亿美元贷款,显著导致森林砍伐和泥炭排水,使加里曼丹和苏门答腊等地区更易发生火灾和洪水,报告称。
Banks have provided $67.1 billion to Indonesia's pulp and palm oil sectors since 2020, contributing significantly to deforestation and peat drainage, and making areas like Kalimantan and Sumatra more vulnerable to fires and floods, it said.
印度尼西亚厄尔尼诺现象加剧的11年来最严重野火季节产生的霾导致新加坡和马来西亚呼吸系统疾病激增,空气质量剧烈下降。
Haze from Indonesia's most intense El Niño-fueled wildfire season in 11 years has caused a spike in respiratory illnesses and a dramatic decline in air quality in Singapore and Malaysia.
全球生物多样性新一轮谈判将于10月19日在亚美尼亚首都叶里温启动,届时将进行“盘点”,以显示各国在实现2030年保护目标方面仍然落后甚远。
A new round of talks on global biodiversity is set to get underway in Yerevan, Armenia, on October 19, with a "stocktake" set to show that countries remain way behind on achieving their 2030 conservation targets.