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• 96% of upstream oil and gas companies are still expanding their operations
• GOGEL is the first tool that makes it possible to systematically assess whether companies are in line with the IEA’s Net Zero Emissions scenario
• LNG terminals under development would more than double global LNG export capacity

After the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) now also held its annual meeting on October 26th – 27th, 2022.

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) now also held its annual meeting. We demand that the democratically elected governments of AIIB shareholders must aggressively uphold a values-driven foreign policy, which is also committed to climate protection.

• 46% of companies on the GCEL still developing new coal assets 
• New coal projects could increase thermal coal production by 37% 
• Less than 3% of GCEL companies have announced timely coal exit dates

• The first global compilation of companies arming warring states
• Between 2015 and 2020, states involved in the wars in Libya, Yemen, and the Kashmir conflict received the most arms deliveries
• Politicians and the finance industry must act: The arms industry needs stronger regulation and should not be classified as social or sustainable

Today, Allianz, currently one of the world's biggest oil and gas insurers, committed to stop insuring and investing in new oil and gas fields, new oil power plants, new midstream oil infrastructure, and practices relating to the Arctic as of January 2023, and will not renew existing contracts for such projects as of July 1, 2023.