Banking Environment Initiative

Protect and Restore Nature

Our nature-related financial risks project, a joint venture with CISL’s Investment Leaders Group, is a collaboration between banks, asset managers and University of Cambridge academics to identify and assess the financial risks of nature loss.

In January 2021, the ‘Soft Commodities’ Compact concluded with the publication Banking Beyond Deforestation. This report shares lessons and includes a five-part action plan detailing how the banking industry can contribute to halting and reversing deforestation.

The Fintech Taskforce published a series of recommendations on the fundamental design questions related to how multinational companies, financial institutions and entrepreneurs should work together to harness fintech to help solve sustainability challenges in the real world. Trado, a technology pilot exploring data for benefits in supply chains, put the Taskforce recommendations into practice. 

Decarbonise the Global Economy

Bank 2030: how banks can accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy charted a roadmap for the banking sector to develop a forward-looking and strategic approach.

Let’s Discuss Climate: The essential guide to bank-client engagement is a practical five-step guide for client-facing staff to enhance climate-related dialogue with corporate clients and accelerate climate action.

With a focus on the second phase in the guide, Leadership strategies for client engagement: Advancing climate-related assessments is designed to support the financial sector to improve the way they assess clients’ net zero plans.

Most recently, an online guide to financial support for SMEs looking to decarbonise was created for inclusion on the SME Climate Hub.

Meet the team