Lagarde puts green policy top of agenda in ECB bond buying

President wants central bank to ‘explore every avenue’ in fight against climate change

Christine Lagarde during a video interview with the Financial Times. She said the ECB ‘has to look at all the business lines and the operations in which we are engaged in order to tackle climate change’ © Financial Times

Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, has opened the door to using its €2.8tn asset purchase scheme to pursue green objectives, promising to examine changes to all of its operations in the fight against climate change.

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