Climate Safe Lending Pathway
Our Strategy: Pathway to Climate Safe Lending
The Pathway to Climate Safe Lending is five progressive levels of positive climate performance which lead to total bank balance sheet decarbonization:
Taking Responsibility for Climate Risk
Being Accountable for Climate Impact
Stopping the Flow to Fossil Fuels
Decarbonizing Economies and Balance Sheets
Financing Innovation for a Sustainable Future
The pathway is not a sequence. Rather these are the essential parts of a journey for banks aiming to align with keeping well below a 2 degree rise in global temperatures.
Banks can play a critical role in leading the transition to a net-zero carbon economy. We provide a strategic framework lending institutions can use to assess their climate impact and set targets as part their journey along the Climate Safe Lending Pathway.