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Sustainable lending

At Standard Chartered, our Group Environmental and Social Risk Policy governs our approach to integrating environmental considerations into all our lending decisions.

Since the policy was established in 1997, we have factored risks such as climate change, impacts on biodiversity, deforestation, air and water pollution into our lending decisions.

We have also adopted the Equator Principles, reinforcing our commitment to provide loans only to those project sponsors who can demonstrate, to our satisfaction, the ability and willingness to undergo comprehensive scrutiny to ensure they are working in a socially responsible way and applying sound environmental management techniques.

We are currently developing position statements for sectors and issues perceived to be sensitive in the context of sustainable development. These statements will set out the international standards to which customers borrowing from Standard Chartered are encouraged to operate.

• Find out more about the Equator Principles
• Read our Group Environmental and Social Risk Policy (PDF, 15KB)