Introducing Vancity's 2022 Annual Report: We're here to support you through challenging times. Discover how we're driving a transformed economy that prioritizes our planet and ensures equity for all. Visit vancity.com/AnnualReport to learn more.
 
Taking action on the climate crisis remains a top priority for Vancity. This year, we released our inaugural climate report, showcasing our progress in achieving net-zero emissions across our loans and mortgages by 2040. We're also meeting our commitments as part of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA). Our climate report includes transparent disclosures on managing climate risks and opportunities, aligning with the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), and comprehensive greenhouse gas emissions data and methodology.
 
Vancity's annual reporting goes beyond numbers, highlighting inspiring stories about our members and their communities.
 
We utilize our assets to create lasting value in communities. From providing essential services to newcomers in Canada to developing products and services that foster an equitable transition to a low-carbon economy, and directing financial capital towards underserved groups, Vancity is committed to making a difference.
 
Here are some of the report's highlights:
 

 
Vancity's values-based banking model aligns with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. Our annual reporting adheres to the International Integrated Reporting Framework, the Global Reporting Initiative Sustainability Reporting Standards, and relevant metrics of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB). This marks our third public report on our commitment to the UN Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB), and the first time our PRB Self-Assessment has been externally assured.

Dailycsr.com – 13 January 2017 – ANZ has published its “Corporate Sustainability Review” for the year of 2016, whereby providing information about its methods of “tackling its most material sustainability issues”.
 
Ethical Performance, however, provides a highlights of the above mentioned report, wherein it is mentioned that ANZ has “three focus areas” under its “Corporate Sustainability Framework”, while its achievements for the year of 2016 are aligned with its focus and can be separated, as mentioned below, by Ethical Performance:
Fair and responsible banking

 
Social and economic participation

 
Sustainable growth

 
Moreover, the sustainability review also reveals the management process of ANZ in tackling its “climate change” related “risks” as well as “opportunities”. According to Ethical Performance:
“This includes how ANZ assesses the climate risk of its customers, particularly those in emissions intensive industries, as well as how ANZ is supporting customers to transition to a low carbon economy”.
 
For availing the entire review report, kindly click on:
http://shareholder.anz.com/pages/annual-report-and-shareholder-review
 
 
 
 
References:
http://www.ethicalperformance.com/

Dailycsr.com – 27 September 2016 – The corporate sustainability report of NBAD for the year of 2015 has been published under the title of “Being a Good Corporate Citizen”, whereby the same provides the details of the progresses made by NBAD during the calendar year of 2015.
 
Mainly the report focuses on the fruitful implementations of the “corporate citizenship strategies” those were undertaken by the Bank in line of its “long term ambition” which is to be a leader among its peers in taking actions especially in those areas which “have global significance” as well as “local relevance”.
 
Among the rest NBAD possesses “two significant ambitions” which are related to the “future of energy” and “SME advocacy”, while the bank wants to continue to exhibit “strong performance” as a practitioner of responsible banking which involves its “core operations”. Moreover, the strategies undertaken by NBAD is in line with the “strategic plans” of UAE for generating “growth” besides diversifying the economy; yet retaining a “focus on decarbonising the economy and diversifying energy supplies”.
 
In fact, ReportAlert informs that the year of 2015 has been significant for NBAD in its progress of “sustainability initiatives”. Here are some of the highlights of the report, as mentioned by Ethical Perfomace:

 
 
 
 
 
References:
ethicalperformance.com