Aligning Your Company’s Banking & Sustainability
Are you interested in engaging with your bank to better understand their environmental impact, but you do not where to start? The “Aligning Your Company’s Banking with Its Sustainability Goals” guide is here to help.
We designed this guide to help your company conduct a qualitative assessment of the climate performance and trajectory of its bank(s). By using this guide, your company can collect critical information about its banking partners’ climate planning, financial exposure to fossil fuels, and environmental impact—data that is needed to ensure your company’s financial management and services align with its financial and sustainability goals. The questions outlined in the guide also provide companies the opportunity to engage with their bank(s) as a supply chain partner and advocate for banks to adopt important climate policies and best practices.
The questions below are designed to collect essential information about your bank’s:
• Climate goals and progress
• Use of client deposits
• Future climate commitments and credibility
• Climate risk management
• Bank climate governance and accountability