The BEI participates in the UN Climate Summit
15 December 2014
23 September 2014 – September saw world leaders, business and civil society convene for the UN Climate Summit in New York.
BEI-CUFE Seminar in China: Greening Banking Services, Beijing
15 December 2014
17 September 2014 – This half-day seminar, co-hosted with Beijing’s Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE), brought together representatives from regional and international banks and the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), as well as Chinese banking regulator, the CRBC, and leading food manufacturer and trader, COFCO.
BEI-BNI Seminar in Indonesia: Greening Banking Services, Jakarta
15 December 2014
15 September 2014 – The purpose of this half-day seminar, hosted in partnership with Bank Negara Indonesia, was to explore whether there is value inherent in the BEI and Indonesian banking industry collaborating to ‘green’ banking services.
BEI plenary session at the GTR Asia Trade Finance Week, Singapore
15 December 2014
09 September 2014 – During the most highly rated session of the week, the BEI presented its work on sustainable trade finance work at the largest trade finance conference in the world.
The 'Soft Commodities' Compact between the CGF and BEI continues to build momentum
15 December 2014
8 July 2014 – The current group of eight adopting banks comprises BEI members Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Lloyds Banking Group, Santander and Westpac as well as BNP Paribas, RBS and UBS, who are not BEI members.
The BEI-CGF Soft Commodities Compact is released
15 December 2014
2 April 2014 – The ‘Soft Commodities’ Compact, a unique, client-led initiative that aims to mobilise the banking industry as a whole to contribute to transforming soft commodity supply chains – and therefore help clients achieve zero net deforestation by 2020 – is now available.
University of Cambridge research investigates bank regulation
15 December 2014
24 January 2014 – A new research project as been established to investigate whether financial sector regulation in its current form could actually be increasing financial sector risk by failing to take adequate account of both positive and negative environmental externalities that affect financial stability.
15 December 2014
4 December 2013 – Represented by Jeremy Wilson, Vice Chairman of Corporate Banking at Barclays and Chair of the BEI’s Working Group, the BEI joined Chief Executives of Consumer Goods Forum companies Unilever, Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Royal Ahold & Co, SC Johnson, Walmart and Cargill to brief the Obama Administration on how BEI banks and CGF companies are working together to drive deforestation out of supply chains.
Presenting a model for incentivising the trade of sustainably produced commodities
15 December 2014
September 2013 – The organisers of GTR’s Asia Trade Finance Week – the largest trade finance conference for companies, trading houses, banks and insurers in Asia – asked the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and the banks of the Banking Environment Initiative to present the concept we have been developing for a ‘Sustainable Shipment’ model that would offer financial incentives for the trade of sustainably produced commodities, including agricultural commodities like palm oil, soy, timber products and beef.
Banking Environment Initiative Forum 2014 Conference Report
4 December 2014
September 2014 – Barclays Chief Executive Antony Jenkins led a group of representatives of global banks meeting in Hong Kong on June 24, 2014 to explore ways that banks can work with companies to promote sustainable means of production, starting with agricultural commodities.
