Monday, 18 June 2007

Green Banks


A roll of honour from a chart at my conference today from a section of a presentation talking about banks seizing the sustainability agenda:

Bank of America
Barclaycard
Citibank
Co-operative Financial Services
HSBC
HBOS
More Than
Norwich Union
Norwich and Peterborough
Wachovia
Westpac
Wells Fargo

This was one I hadnt seen/covered & looks very impressive
http://www.wachovia.com/file/ClimateChange.pdf

The highlight of the day was someone from Co-op bank listing what they do in corporate governance, community & employee engagement, & sustainability. They are as he pointed out since the regime change at the Body Shop prob the only company which also mounts campaigns (eg their cluster bomb campaign a few years back). Inspiring stuff :J

3 comments:

fran said...

Another one that is proactive and willing to tackle difficult issues is the Dutch bank Rabobank

www.rabobank.com/content/about_us/corporate_social_responsibility/

I find the case studies under sustainability reporting especially heartening

Freya said...

Hi John, assume you've seen this but just in case...

http://www.climatecounts.org/pdf/CCScorecardReport-App6-07.pdf

John Grant said...

Thx Fran, and another one from Holland is ABN - also their Banco Real subsidiary in Brazil (which audits small businesses for sustainability, before they award a loan or similar)

Yes Freya, i had seen it was coming but not this actual report - there's a week of blogging in here already

:J