Last Rated in Apr 2025
Your bank has room for improvement on climate responsibility.
Banque Van Breda lends only to small businesses and entrepreneurs and it has a policy of not lending to the fossil fuel industry.
We'd like to encourage the bank to start lending to renewable energy companies and projects and to introduce "green" products for retail (individual) customers, such as loans to buy electric vehicles.
We'd also like to see the bank measure greenhouse gas emissions enabled by its lending and set science-based climate targets over those emissions.
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