How Sustainability Will Change The Banking Sector

March 1, 2022 EcoVadis EN

A carbon footprint measures the number of greenhouse gases produced in a human's day-to-day activities. Therefore, reducing it improves the sustainability of the environment to a great extent, while increasing it has opposite effects. Sustainability greatly affects all sectors, including the banking sector. Banks are now adopting sustainability principles that will change the financial sector and its future long-term strategy.

Net zero emission refers to the efforts of eliminating all man-made greenhouse gases from the Earth's atmosphere, to reduce its net climate balance. The banking sector has adopted these reduction techniques in an attempt to curb carbon emissions from their operations, and from companies they have financed. Furthermore, many others have joined the financial sector in pledging net zero emissions by 2050.


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