{"id":2893,"date":"2008-12-02T11:16:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T10:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/02\/the-climate-principles-finance-leaders-launch-first-global-climate-change-framework\/"},"modified":"2008-12-04T11:27:45","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T10:27:45","slug":"the-climate-principles-finance-leaders-launch-first-global-climate-change-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2008\/12\/02\/the-climate-principles-finance-leaders-launch-first-global-climate-change-framework\/","title":{"rendered":"The Climate Principles: Finance leaders launch first global climate change framework"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theclimategroup.org\/news_and_events\/climate_principles_for_global_finance_sector\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"081204_climateprinciples.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/081204_climateprinciples.jpg\" title=\"081204_climateprinciples.jpg\" alt=\"081204_climateprinciples.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><span lang=\"EN-GB\">A group of major international financial institutions has joined with The Climate Group to launch a new code to guide best practice across the sector to deal with the risks and opportunities of climate change.<o:p><\/o:p> The new code, titled The Climate Principles, is the first comprehensive industry framework for the sector\u2019s response to climate change and has been adopted by Cr\u00e9dit Agricole, HSBC, Munich Re, Standard Chartered and Swiss Re. <o:p><\/o:p>The Climate Principles will not only guide operational greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction commitments, but also provide strategic direction across the full range of financial products and services including research, asset management, retail banking, corporate banking, insurance and re-insurance, investment banking and project finance. It is intended to align with, and build on, existing initiatives to ensure a consistent and effective sectoral approach to addressing climate change. Image source: &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theclimategroup.org\/news_and_events\/climate_principles_for_global_finance_sector\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">News selected by Covalence <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| Country: <\/span>Global<span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"> | Company:<\/span> <span lang=\"EN-GB\">Cr\u00e9dit Agricole<\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=7\">HSBC<\/a>, <span lang=\"EN-GB\">Munich Re, Standard Chartered and Swiss Re<\/span> <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"> | <\/span>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theclimategroup.org\/news_and_events\/climate_principles_for_global_finance_sector\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Climate Group<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of major international financial institutions has joined with The Climate Group to launch a new code to guide best practice across the sector to deal with the risks and opportunities of climate change. The new code, titled The Climate Principles, is the first comprehensive industry framework for the sector\u2019s response to climate change&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":[239,73,237,238,220],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-2893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crdit-agricole","tag-hsbc","tag-munich-re","tag-standard-chartered","tag-swiss-re","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893","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=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}