Standard Chartered's 2007 eco claims

Dan Ilett

Dan Ilett

Greenbang has found this wicked little site called ReportAlert.

Today it published details of Standard Chartered’s 2007 sustainability report.

The company claims to have:

Empowering 1.2 million people in Asia and Africa, by disbursing microfinance loans worth US$170m through 41 partners in 13 countries,

Committing $8-10bn to finance renewable energy and clean technology projects in Asia, Africa and the Middle East by 2012,

Generating over 1 million pledges for the Greatest Race on Earth: Race for a Living Planet that have the potential to save 3 billion litres of water,

Reducing paper use by 20% per full time employee (2006–7).

Again though, you’ve got to ask – in two years’ time will anyone be publishing this stuff? Or will it be the norm to do it?

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