Sustainability Conference in Seoul
10 December 2011 - Prizma Blog
Prizma’s Bill Kennedy was recently invited to participate at the 6th Sustainability Management Conference in Seoul, Korea. The focus of the event, sponsored by the Korean Standards Association and the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, was an examination of the IFC Performance Standards, the Equator Principles and OECD’s Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and the way in which companies and banks have been responding to them. Read More.
Non-compliance with equator principles: Constraint to obtaining finance for energy projects
8 December 2011 - Business Day Online, Ayodele Oni
The Equator Principles represent a credit risk management framework for determining, assessing and managing environmental and social risk for transactions requiring Project Finance. Project finance on the other hand, is a means of funding in which the lender or financier looks primarily to the revenues generated a project, as opposed to the balance sheet, both as the source of repayment and as security for the exposure. Project Finance, plays an important role in financing energy projects and infrastructural development throughout the world. This financing method, is usually for large, complex and expensive installations, infrastructure and structures and would include, for example, power plants, chemical processing plants, mines, transportation infrastructure such as trains and telecommunications infrastructure. Read More.
Putting some bite into the Equator Principles
29 November 2011 - Project Finance Magazine
There has been persistent scepticism about the Equator Principles’ ability to encourage best practice at participating banks. But evidence from the mining industry is that they are changing sponsor behaviour. By Christopher Langdon and Claudia O’Brien, partners, Latham & Watkins. Since 2003, Equator Principles financial institutions, most of them major banks, have provided about 85% of the world’s project finance capacity. These institutions provide financing only to projects that comply with the Equator Principles, a voluntary set of guidelines designed to ensure large projects are financed in socially and environmentally responsible ways. Read More.
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