{"id":2661,"date":"2008-08-11T11:18:43","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T10:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/11\/banking-on-sustainability\/"},"modified":"2008-08-15T14:42:12","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T13:42:12","slug":"banking-on-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2008\/08\/11\/banking-on-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Banking on Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soxfirst.com\/50226711\/citigroup1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"080811_citigroup.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/080811_citigroup.jpg\" title=\"080811_citigroup.jpg\" alt=\"080811_citigroup.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> The past decade has seen a radical shift from viewing banks as far-removed from social and environmental impacts, to recognizing banks as the fulcrum of financing, and thus a key lever for achieving sustainability.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csrwire.com\/News\/1880.html\" target=\"_blank\">2003 launch of the Equator Principles<\/a> and the granting of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csrwire.com\/News\/6564.html\" target=\"_blank\">2006 Nobel Peace Prize to microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus<\/a> cemented this link.  Now, banking best practice is shifting from minimizing negative impacts to advancing positive change.For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csrwire.com\/News\/12785.html\" target=\"_blank\">Citi is partnering with Ashoka, a nonprofit that supports social entrepreneurship, to launch the Changemakers Competition.  The award program seeks to identify innovative finance projects that promote economic and social justice<\/a>. Image source : soxfirst.com &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csrwire.com\/LastAlert.html\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">News selected by Covalence | Region: <\/span><st1:place><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Global<\/span><\/st1:place><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> | Company: <\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=7\">Citigroup<\/a><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> | Source: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/law\/article3919567.ece\" target=\"_blank\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Csr newswire<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past decade has seen a radical shift from viewing banks as far-removed from social and environmental impacts, to recognizing banks as the fulcrum of financing, and thus a key lever for achieving sustainability. The 2003 launch of the Equator Principles and the granting of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize to microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-2661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-citigroup","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}