Civista Bank
Last Rated in May 2025
Your bank has room for improvement on climate responsibility.
Civista has not been transparent about its lending activities, so we cannot rule out that it finances the fossil fuel industry. However, as it only had $317m of commercial lending at the end of 2024, we think this is unlikely.
We'd like to see Civista take climate responsibility seriously by:
- Putting in place a fossil fuel exclusion policy
- Measuring greenhouse gas emissions enabled by its lending
- Setting science-based emissions reduction targets
- Introducing green consumer products (e.g. preferential rates on loans to buy EVs)
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