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RBC provides representation and input to a number of industry,
community and professional organizations with environmental
mandates including:
Canadian Business for Social Responsibility
Conference Board of Canada
Environmental Bankers Association
United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative
Equator Principles Financial Institutions (EPFIs)
We are committed to working with all material stakeholders
to help manage our environmental risks, pursue business opportunities
and minimize the impact of our operations.
Canadian Business for Social Responsibility
Canadian Business for Social Responsibility is a business-led, non-profit corporate social responsibility consultancy and peer-to-peer learning organization that provides its members with counsel and customized advisory services and aims to improve performance, while contributing to a better world.
Conference Board of Canada
The Conference Board of Canada is a not-for-profit Canadian organization that takes a business-like approach to its operations, while acting as specialists in economic trends, as well as organizational performance and public policy issues. Among other groups within the Conference Board of Canada, RBC is a member of the Business Council for Sustainability, a cross-industry network, which assists organizations in exchanging insights and experiences, while discovering practices in environmental management and corporate sustainability.
Environmental Bankers Association
(EBA)
The Environmental Bankers Associationis a non-profit trade association, established in 1994 in response to heightened sensitivity to environmental risk management issues. The EBA represents the financial services industry, including bank and non-bank financial institutions, insurers, and those who provide services to them.
United Nations Environmental Program Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)
The UNEP FI is a unique global partnership between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the private financial sector. Through regional activities, comprehensive work programmes, training programmes and research, UNEP FI carries out its mission to identify, promote, and realize the adoption of best environmental and sustainability practice at all levels of financial institution operations.
Equator Principles Financial Institutions (EPFIs)
The Equator
Principles (EPs) are a voluntary set of standards for
determining, assessing and managing social and environmental
risk in project finance. Equator Principles Financial Institutions
(EPFIs) commit to not providing loans to projects where the
borrower will not or is unable to comply with their respective
social and environmental policies and procedures that implement
the EPs.
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