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Ending fossil fuel investments is 'good economics', EU's lending arm says

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FILE PHOTO: Smoke and steam billows from Belchatow Power Station, Europe's largest coal-fired power plant operated by PGE Group, near Belchatow

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Ending investments in the fossil fuel projects responsible for planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions is "good economics", the head of the European Investment Bank (EIB) said on Thursday.

"This is not only a question of political wishful thinking, but also a good economics," EIB President Werner Hoyer told a green finance summit organised by the French government on Thursday.

The EIB last year rewrote its energy lending rules to stop funding unabated fossil fuel power plants from the end of 2021, with certain exemptions.

Hoyer said continuing to finance fossil fuel infrastructure could see banks end up with stranded assets.

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"It's a question of economic rationality, not to embrace something that you know you'll have to write off in 15 or 20 years, but you have on the balance sheet for 40 years," Hoyer said, adding that he hoped public and private institutions can "close ranks" around the issue.

(Reporting by Kate Abnett; editing by Simon Jessop)