Beforehand, banks had built-in sustainable practices into their operations primarily by allocating funds to sustainable firms and initiatives. With rising shopper demand, banks are performing on their environmental impacts. We discover the information behind a number of banks who’ve taken initiative by buying carbon credit to offset their GHG emissions.
Utilizing the information from our Premium Plus dashboard, we ranked the highest 10 offsetters throughout the banking business, primarily based on their retired credit over the past decade. (Be aware that we’re solely capable of get info on transactions the place the retiring entity has made its participation publicly recognized.)
The highest 3 offsetting banks have all retired over 2,000,000 tCO2e previously 12 years.
HSBC
UK-headquartered HSBC has bought essentially the most credit, with over 2.5m tCO2e retired publicly since 2010. They’ve bought their credit primarily from Chinese language renewable vitality initiatives, and have made the overwhelming majority of their retirements in 2012. Beneath are the financial institution’s ten largest transactions:
NedBank
Subsequent in line is NedBank of South Africa which has offset over 2m carbon credit as a part of their 2010 dedication to carbon neutrality.
NedBank has bought credit from a variety of initiatives, all in Sub-Saharan Africa. Beneath are its ten largest retirements:
Barclays
The third largest offsetter within the banking sector is Barclays, having offset simply over 2m tCO2e as a part of their carbon impartial program. Listed below are its high ten retirements:
For extra information on the voluntary carbon markets, take a look at our dashboard right here or attain out to carbon@alliedcrowds.com.
