Financial
Times' Sustainable Banking Award. Launched in late 2005,
it has attracted the attention of leading international banks and
will help benchmark best practices.
WestPac Bank (Australia) Sustainability Report.
Award-winning, and the author is also the in-coming chairman of the
United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative.
There are over
90 financial services firms following the Sustainability
Reporting Guidelines from the Global Reporting Initiative.
Banks on the
Dow Jones Sustainability Index
- open the Sectors report for the current listings. All the
listed banks publish their sustainability reports online.
Sustainability Benchmarking of European Banks and Financial Service
Organizations. Inquires into the extent
to which they have integrated sustainability into their policies,
strategies, products, services and processes. Proposes five
models of action. O. Weber, 2005. 15 pp.
Who Cares Wins
- Connecting Financial
Markets to a Changing World.
Recommendations by the financial industry to better integrate
environmental, social and governance issues in analysis, asset
management and securities brokerage. United
Nations Global Compact. 2003. 58 pp.
“Who Cares Wins”: One Year On.
A
Review of the Integration of Environmental, Social and Governance
Value Drivers in Asset Management, Financial Research and Investment
Processes. International Finance
Corporation. 2005. 27 pp.
Sustainability in Finance - Banking on the Planet.
Marcel Jeucken, 2001. 318 pp.
Sustainable Banking: The Greening of
Finance. GreenLeaf Publishing, 2001.
480 pp.
United
Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative. Over 160
institutions including banks, insurers and fund managers work with
UNEP to understand the impacts of environmental and social
considerations on financial performance.
UNEPFI North America Task Force brochure. The UN
also provides a full online training package on
Financing Cleaner Production.
Principles for Responsible Investment.
A project of the United Nations Secretary-General via the UN
Global Compact and the UN Environment Programme,
2005. 18 pp.
Sustainability Finance: A Study of Best
Practices, Standards and Trends in Corporate Social Responsibility
tries to pull together the
emerging best practice innovations, to profile best practice CSR
leaders in finance and to have CSR thought leaders in finance
identify some of the trends in CSR. C. Strandberg,
2005. 93 pp.
The Future of Sustainable Finance: Thought Leaders Study. Interviews
with thought leaders in the finance sector around the world for
their views on the future of CSR and
sustainable finance by 2015. C. Strandberg,
2005.
44 pp.
Cleaner Production: Institutions Promoting Investment and
Financing. Global directory of financing
sources for clean technologies and products. United Nations Environment Programme, 2000. 29 pp.
The Changing Landscape of Liability A Director’s Guide to Trends in
Corporate Environmental, Social and Economic Liability.
SustainAbility, 2004. 48 pp.
The "Equator Principles": An Industry Approach for Financial
Institutions in Determining, Assessing and Managing Environmental
and Social Risk in Project Financing.
2004 Sustainability Report.
International Finance Corporation,
World Bank Group 64 pp.
Technical Guidance
Measuring Sustainability: A Framework for
Private Sector Investments.
International Finance Corporation, 2003. 34 pp.
Sustainability Reporting
Guidelines - Financial Services Sector
Supplements.
Environmental Management in Banks, Savings Banks and Insurance
Companies.
German Federal Ministry for Environment. 2001. 39 pp.
Diagnostic Tool: Sustainability Management at Banks and Insurance
Companies. Targets
managers and units responsible for
sustainability management at corporate level at banks and insurance
companies. Author and date unknown
(post-2000). 6 pp.
Pollution Prevention and Profitability:
A Primer for Lenders.
Northeast
Waste Management Officials' Association.
EPI-Finance 2000: Environmental
Performance Indicators for the Financial Industry.
This report is a workbook for the financial industry to better
communicate and benchmark its environmental performance using a
common set of management and operational performance indicators that
are relevant for the sector. E2 Management Consulting AG.
2000. 43 pp.
Guidelines on Environmental Management and Reporting for the
Financial Services Sector: A practical
toolkit. The
Forge Group UK, 2001. 102 pp.
SIGMA Sustainability Accounting Guide.
This guide brings together
many different approaches to using monetized information for
sustainability. UK Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.
2003. 57 pp.
The Equator Principles: An Industry Approach for Financial
Institutions in Determining, Assessing and managing environmental
and social risk in project financing. 9 pp. http://www.equator-principles.com/
Environmental Credit Risk Factors in the Pan-European Banking Sector.
Includes detailed explanation of environmental credit risk
assessment procedures and best practices of leading banks.
ISIS Asset Management. 2002.
Green Mortgages and Responsible
Property Investment
The
Green Building Finance Consortium is a new USA organization
working on methods to
better valuation methods for green buildings.
"Responsible
Property Investment" and "Is
There a Future for Socially Responsible Property Investments?"
Pivo, 2005. Here is a good
overview of RPI.
Field Guide
to Green Homes & Green Mortgages. and a
similar article.
HUD
Energy Efficient Mortgages Program and
Fannie Mae's EEM program
A mortgage lender's page on
energy efficient
mortgage products.
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