Recommended reading
Project financing
- The dos and don’ts of sustainable banking: a BankTrack manual
- ( J.W. van Gelder / BankTrack , 2006)
- Aimed at the banking community, this manual provides an overview of actions these institutions can take to become more sustainable. Its starting point is the Collevecchio Declaration. This declaration...
- Shaping the future of sustainable finance: moving from paper promises to performance
- ( WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature , 2006)
- This report evaluates how the various commercial and investment banks are responding to their commitments to sustainable development. In order to do so this report reviews the publicly available envir...
- Where do you draw the line?: research into the financial links between five bank groups and companies that abuse human rights
- ( Netwerk Vlaanderen , 2005)
- This paper explores the financial links between banks and companies which abuse human rights. In order to do so, it draws on the example of five major bank groups, which dominate the Belgian financial...
- Unproven principles: the Equator Principles at year two
- ( M. Chan-Fishel / BankTrack , 2005)
- This review measures whether the benefits of the Equator Principles (EPs) are being realised. In 2003 ten private financial institutions launched the EPs, a set of guidelines for managing social and ...
- Financing pulp mills: an appraisal of risk assessment and safeguard procedures
- ( M. Spek / Center for International Forestry Research , 2006)
- This study examines how international investors and lenders assess the nancial risks and social and environmental impacts associated with pulp mills. It argues that despite the large amounts of capit...
