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Equator News Coverage

China to bring in green loan benchmark, 25 January, 2008

A Question of Principles, Infrastructure Magazine, by Kimberley Gaskin, June 2007

Citigroup to scale up its green spending,The Financial Times, 8 May 2007.

Leaders challenge 'business as usual', Guardian, 6 November 2006

Financial Sector Responsibility

Building a better world (for investors and whales), The Banker, 3 July 2006

Update on the Equator Principles - 2006 Revision, Allens Arthur Robinson, August 2006

The Miami Herald July 31, 2006.

Building sustainability into syndication, Project Finance - July/August 2006

For Citigroup, Greening Starts With Listening

For people and planet, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 April 2006

Conservation You Can Bank On (Christopher Wright) (PDF - 91k)

'A New Environment', Legal Week 2 February 2006 (Paul Watchman and Charles July of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) (PDF - 2572k)

'Banks Business and Human Rights' (2006) 2 JIBFL 46 (Paul Watchman of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) (PDF - 59k)

Polluters Clean Up Act to Attract Lenders, The Moscow Times, 12 October 2005

The Equator Principles - guidelines for responsible project financing, Focus, Allens Arthur Robinson, August 2005 (PDF - 122k)

Corporate Green, Washington Post, 11 May 2005

Taking The Earth Into Account, Time Europe, 9 May 2005

Principles in Question, The Banker, March 2005 (PDF - 97k)

Banking on the future, Euromoney Syndicated Lending Handbook 2005, December 2004 (PDF - 38k)

A Matter of Principles, Global Finance, January 2005

Principle Finance, Euromoney, October 2004

Putting principles into practice, Environmental Finance, June 2004

'Greening' of financial sector gathering speed, Financial Times, 4 June 2004

"Equator - Risk and Sustainability," from Project Finance International, 2004 Yearbook. (PDF - 429k)

NGOs Bring Bank Scrutiny Back on Track, Ethical Corporation Online, 2 May 2004

Banks contest ban proposed for coal and oil extraction, Financial Times, 5 April 2004

A Matter of Principal, Project Finance, 3 March 2004

The Equator Principles: a milestone or just good PR?, Global Agenda, 26 January 2004

Mizuho To Adopt Environmental Standards In Project Financing, CNNfn, 26 October 2003

Dexia adhère aux "Equator principles", La Tribune, 22 September 2003 (in French)

Western Banks Set Standards for Eco-Friendly Lending. Japanese Banks Far Behind. NGO Keeping Close Watch, Nikkei, 5 September 2003

A point of principle, Global Finance, July 2003

Equator Principles — Why Indian Banks Too Should be Guided by Them, The Hindu, 25 July 2003

Project finance — Standards for Lending, Financial Mail, 25 July 2003

Financiers must meet criteria, Business Day, 14 July 2003

Banks agree new loan guidelines, Ethical Performance, July 2003

Principled finance?, Project Finance, June 2003 Cover Story

Banks club together to turn their notes green, The Age, 22 June 2003

Nikkei Financial Daily, 11 June 2003 (in Japanese - PDF)

Banks' green pledge earns mixed response, swissinfo, 10 June 2003

Greening the banks, The Economist, 7-13 June 2003

Leading banks sign up to project finance principles, Environmental Finance, 6 June 2003

Bancos adotam princípios de responsabilidade social, Valor Econômico, 5 June 2003 (in Portuguese)

Zehn Banken werden zu Umweltschützern, Die Tageszeitung, 5 June 2003 (in German)

Major Banks Endorse Equator Principles, The Peninsula, Qatar, 5 June 2003

The 'Equator Principles' adopted by leading banks, The Times of India, 5 June 2003

Westpac's principles, Australian Financial Review, 5 June 2003

Loan rules with an eye on nature, International Herald Tribune, 5 June 2003

10 global banks endorse socially responsible "Equator Principles", Agence France Presse, 5 June 2003

"THE FLIP SIDE", CNN, 4 June 2003 (transcript)

IFC Head's Remarks at Equator Principles Press Conference, 4 June 2003

Banks sign up for responsible lending accord, Financial Times, 4 June 2003

Banks Accept Environmental Rules, The Wall Street Journal, 4 June 2003

Banks in drive for project principles, Financial Times, 9 April 2003

Four banks adopt IFC agreement, Financial Times, 7 April 2003

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Citigroup to scale up its green spending

The Financial Times, 8 May 2007
By David Wighton

Citigroup will on Tuesday commit to providing $50bn (?25bn) to environmental projects during the next decade in Wall Street’s boldest statement of the business risks and opportunities presented by climate change.

The world’s largest financial services group will commit to increase 10-fold to $10bn its planned investment to reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions.

It has also begun to advise borrowers about how to make their projects more environmentally sustainable to reduce their risk from future environmental regulation.

Citigroup’s initiative comes as Wall Street scrambles to capitalise on opportunities in areas such as alternative energy, energy efficiency and carbon emissions trading.

Bank of America recently announced a $20bn initiative to support growth of environmentally sustainable business activity. Lehman Brothers has set up a climate change council headed by a senior banker, Theodore Roosevelt IV, to lead its effort to address challenges of global warming.

Citigroup will also warn of the difficulties companies face because of uncertainty about future environmental regulations.

Chuck Prince, chief executive, will call for global and US frameworks for reducing greenhouse gas emissions “to bring certainty to the markets and achieve a level playing field”.

Citigroup was one of the banks that led development of the Equator Principles, a voluntary set of guidelines for assessing the environmental and social impact of projects. It has extended that approach to provide risk assessments to clients in greenhouse gas-intensive sectors.

As part of the group-wide plan, Citigroup’s markets and banking group expects to invest in and to finance more than $30bn in clean energy and alternative technology during the next 10 years, with current commitments already approaching $7.5bn.

Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2007


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Institutions Which Have Adopted the Equator Principles

ABN AMRO Bank, N.V.
ANZ
Banco Bradesco
Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay
Banco do Brasil
Banco Galicia
Banco Itaú
BankMuscat
Bank of America
BMO Financial Group
BTMU
Barclays plc
BBVA
BES Group
Calyon
Caja Navarra
CIBC
CIFI
Citigroup Inc.
CORPBANCA
Credit Suisse Group
Dexia Group
Dresdner Bank
E+Co
EKF
Export Development Canada
Financial Bank
FMO
Fortis
HBOS
HSBC Group
HypoVereinsbank
ING Group
Intesa Sanpaolo
JPMorgan Chase
KBC
KfW IPEX-Bank
la Caixa
Lloyds TSB
Manulife
MCC
Mizuho Corporate Bank
Millennium bcp
National Australia Bank
Nordea
Nedbank Group
Rabobank Group
Royal Bank of Canada
Scotiabank
SEB
Societe Generale
Standard Chartered Bank
SMBC
TD Bank Financial Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland
Unibanco
Wachovia
Wells Fargo
WestLB AG
Westpac Banking Corporation

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