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Sustainable Banking

How Going Green Will Help Banks Stay in the Black

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Banks face growing pressure from shareholders and customers to take more action on sustainability. While transitioning to a greener business model will be challenging, banks have a plethora of strategies to choose from.

Executive Summary

Banks face growing pressure from consumers and shareholders to make sustainability a higher priority. That’s a challenge for an industry that, for example, has financed $3.8 trillion for fossil fuel clients since the 2015 Paris Agreement. Banks may consider finding a way to balance a shift toward sustainability with sustaining their profits.

Key Question: Why should banks start taking action on sustainability today?

KEY STAT: Younger consumers, who rate climate change as a much greater threat than their older peers do, are far more likely to use ESG investment tools and choose or switch banks according to their ethics or “purpose.”

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Table of Contents

  1. Executive Summary
  2. Do or Die: It’s Banks’ Sustainability Moment
  3. Banks Need a Sustainability Strategy—Now
  1. How Can Banks Act Now on Sustainability?
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authors

Maria Elm

Contributors

Caitlin Cahalan
Researcher, Financial Services
Daniel Ramirez
Researcher, Financial Services
Daniel Van Dyke
VP, Content
Tiffani Montez
Principal Analyst, Banking
Tyler Brown
Senior Analyst