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Global banking giants sign up to climate principles
businessgreen.com - 12/5/2008
Global banking giants sign up to climate principles
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Tom Young, BusinessGreen , Monday 1 December 2008 at 10:49:00 Crédit Agricole, HSBC, Munich Re, Standard Chartered and Swiss Re first firms to sign up to standards that could see them refuse financing to projects that fail to disclose carbon emissions Carbon intensive projects could be ...
The Climate Principles
theclimategroup.org - 12/3/2008
The Climate Principles
— theclimategroup.org — The Climate Principles A Framework for the Finance Sector The Climate Principles provide a voluntary framework to... guide the finance sector in tackling the challenge of climate change. The Climate Principles address the management of operational ... (more) The Climate Principles
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unglobalcompact.org - 12/2/2008
The ten principles of the UN Global Compact
— unglobalcompact.org — The Ten Principles The UN Global Compact's ten principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the... environment and anti-corruption enjoy universal consensus and are derived from: The Global Compact asks companies to embrace, support and enact, within ... (more) The ten principles of the UN Global Compact

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Banks Launch The Climate Principles, Again
environmentalleader.com - 12/4/2008
Banks Launch The Climate Principles, Again
— environmentalleader.com — Credit Agricole, HSBC, Munich Re, Standard Chartered and Swiss Re have joined with The Climate Group to... launch a new code, dubbed “The Climate Principles,” to guide best practices for financial institutions to deal with climate ... (more) Banks Launch The Climate Principles, Again
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Can bankers save the world?
BusinessGreen Blog — ... That is what is so exciting and potentially revolutionary about the launch this week of the climate principles, a set of guidelines requiring financial institutions to consider the carbon impact of their investment decisions. ...

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