A growing number of companies are joining the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) – 57 financial institutions from all over the world are now partners, representing 3.5 trillion US dollars in total assets. ABN AMRO is one of the founders of PCAF and a member of the international steering committee.
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There’s something fishy about many products in our shops because human rights are violated during production. A non-living wage and child labour are but two examples. We want to help combat such practices by carefully selecting the parties we do business with and by helping companies improve.
The holidays are just around the corner, traditionally a time when we consume more. Can you resist the temptation of the holiday sales? More and more people are aware of the impact of their buying behaviour and are willing to become conscious consumers.
ABN AMRO is at the top of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Transparency Benchmark 2019. With a fourth place, ABN AMRO is, similar to 2017, one of the leading groups of most transparent organizations in the field of social reporting in the Netherlands and we once again won the prize for the greatest innovation in reporting for our Impact Report.
A world without waste in which we use and re-use stuff and resources as long as we can – it’s the key to a sustainable future. And it calls for a dramatically different approach by manufacturers and consumers, and a change in the way banks look at finance requests.
On 29 October, ABN AMRO won the Computable Award in the category ICT Project of the Year 2019 for Large Businesses. Computable announced 21 winners, with the bank’s initiative for tracking down human trafficking receiving the highest average final score.
Do you ever buy dirt-cheap clothes? More often than not, this has been made possible by exploitation and environmental pollution. Selma van der Graaf (ABN AMRO) checked out the true cost of honest clothes and gives us tips on how to dress sustainably.
And we do mean going all out, as most Dutch people say they think it’s important to make their homes sustainable but do little more than taking very minor steps. Recognise this? It’s worth your while to take big strides, as it boosts even the price of your home!
In London, ABN AMRO received a Finance for the Future Award in the category 'Communicating Integrated Thinking'. The awards are an initiative of Finance for the Future, founded by The Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S) and ICAEW. A4S was established by HRH The Prince of Wales in 2004. Its aim is to make sustainable business business as usual.
Did you know that a pair of jeans is in fact 33 euros too cheap? A whole host of hidden costs aren’t passed on in its price, including pollution and labour exploitation. ABN AMRO is taking action to address this.
ABN AMRO, Rabobank and BNP Paribas team up with Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG), IDH, and USAID to support smallholder coffee farmers in Kenya, Honduras and Mexico.
