Banks Set Emissions Standard for US Power Sector
Date: 05-Feb-08
Country: US
Citigroup Inc, JP Morgan Chase & Co and Morgan Stanley will form "The Carbon Principles," climate change guidelines for advisors and lenders to power companies in the United States.
The banks developed the principles in consultation with environmental organizations and power companies, including American Electric Power Co, the nation's largest consumer of coal, and Southern Co, the largest utility company in the coal-heavy Southeast.
Financing of projects with high carbon dioxide-emitting technologies will be evalulated using a new framework that factors in the potential carbon risks, they said.
(Reporting by Lisa Lee; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn and Derek Caney)
