Is your bank investing billions into oil & gas?
The major UK banks have put into fossil fuel since 2016:
£367.25 Billion
Source: Banking on Climate Chaos
The world's 60 biggest banks are financing fossil fuel expansion 50x more than the fossil fuel companies.
(For every £1 that BP invests in fossil fuel expansion, the banks are putting in £50).
Source: Bill McKibben, Wall Street Journal, 17th September 2019
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Your company's choice of bank has a huge impact
The financed emissions from your bank and pension could be larger than the entire supply chain combined.
Source: The Carbon Bankroll report, 2022
It's a similar story for SMEs.
Source: ONS & BEIS, 2022
Banks continue to invest in areas that don't align to our values
Barclays
Invested £6.7bn to JBS - the world's biggest butcher
Natwest
Named in relation to funding cluster munitions & nuclear weapons
HSBC
Facing human rights scandals
Sources:
Barclays funding JBS: A ROTTEN BUSINESS, How Barclays became the go-to bank for JBS, one of the world's most destructive meat corporations, 2022
Natwest funding weapons: Ethical Consumer, April 2023
HSBC human rights: The Guardian, Feb 2021
But it doesn't have to be that way.
Introducing MotherTree
Where values meet value for your business
Your company can make a real difference when it comes to carbon emissions:
Live your values
Inspire your customers
Reduce carbon emissions
With MotherTree you get Clarity, Confidence & Control on the key actions your business can take to reduce CO2, align to your values and even unlock higher revenue.
All while saving you time, money and the planet.
Backed by experts
Mike Berners-Lee
Mike Berners-Lee is a leading expert in carbon footprinting. He is the director and principal consultant at Small World Consulting and author of several best selling books including How Bad are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything.
Endorsements
Lizzie Rivera
Founder and Chief Purpose Officer at Live Frankly
"To understand if a company is serious about its commitment to sustainability, a good place to start is if it’s putting its money where its values are. Where a business banks is a crucial decision – this report clearly shows how it’s one of the biggest carbon choices it can make. So, before you read that long glossy ‘impact’ report, quickly check who a business banks with to get a sense of how seriously they’re taking sustainability. Follow the money: it couldn’t be more simple or more important."
The MotherTree Method
Requirement meeting to understand where you currently are and the key action areas
Based on your bespoke report on where you currently are, we will review where the business currently is and prioritise the big financed emissions changes
MotherTree runs the switch process on your behalf, taking care of everything
Impact for a typical UK business
Shift
£400,000+
into the green economy
Save
75 tCO2
Save
£6,500
per year*
* Only covers current and savings accounts. This number is bigger when we factor in investment, insurance and energy
About us
MotherTree was founded by Dan Sherrard-Smith and Craig Wallington after they discovered the huge carbon emissions impact their own banks were having.
Craig Wallington
COO and Founder
Extensive experience working to drive change with large organisations: 7+ years at Bain & Company working with clients to change their business to achieve a range of objectives.
Dan Sherrard-Smith
CEO and Founder
Track record of successful switching: On the founding team of the UK's largest autoswitching site - Look After My Bills - switching energy for over 800k households and saving the UK public £127m.
