Through their lending, investing, and underwriting practices, financial institutions play a critical role shaping our collective future. As a company with sustainability commitments that can only be met within a world that accelerates to net zero, we are motivated to ensure our financial partners are helping drive decarbonization and a just transition. 

We want to send a clear demand signal, as customers and partners of financial institutions, that while still meeting our business’ core financial needs, we are eager to explore options for better products from financial institutions with better performance.

Buyers’ Principles for Responsible Finance

Better Products:

  1. Increase the flow of our capital to businesses, technologies, and projects that accelerate measurable, real world decarbonization.

  2. Limit the flow of our capital to the main drivers of climate change and environmental harm.

Better Performance:

  1. Align their businesses more closely to our own sustainability and social objectives.

  2. Leverage their influence with key stakeholders to accelerate the decarbonization and climate adaptation of the global economy.

  3. Ensure a just transition that creates a more equitable, healthy and environmentally sustainable economy for all. 

  4. Disclose their performance transparently and are implementing credible transition plans for meeting their targets. 

Let’s connect 1-1

If you’re an influential climate leader inside a company and you need any sort of help or advice, just reach out. Helping you helps the planet, and that’s what we’re here for, no strings attached. And wherever you sit, if you see a high-stakes climate moment that needs (or will soon need) company support in order to turn that exciting theory of change into reality, find a time to bring us up to speed on it so we can help.

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