Laptop Battery Citigroup, the worlds largest financial institution, announced
Thursday that it is adopting a corporate policy to carefully
evaluate requests for project financing that could adversely affect
the environment.
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Thinkpad It also bans funding for illegal logging operations and commits
Citigroup to invest in sustainable forestry and renewable
energy.
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demonstrations by the Rainforest Action Network, a group whose
latest campaign targets Ford Motor for lobbying against higher
fuel-efficiency standards for vehicles.
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Laptop Computers Se Hogue, global finance campaign director for the San
Francisco-based environmental group, said Citi is
the first American bank to adopt such a comprehensive policy.
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the financial
services sector ... and perhaps
in the corporate sector, because of the potential ripple
effects, Hogue said.
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Desktop Computer She spoke in a joint announcement with Pam Flaherty, head of
global
community relations and
environmental affairs for
Citigroup.
Notebooks Flaherty said the new initiative builds on voluntary guidelines
that 18 global financial institutions have signed since last June.
The principles require the banks to adopt procedures to evaluate
the social and environmental impacts of
infrastructure projects that they finance.
Lenovo What weve done is moved beyond that, building on it and making
it more comprehensive, Flaherty said.
Renewable energy incentives
Hard Drive The bank said the new policys main points
are:
Travelstar --Putting in place additional screening of financing requests
for projects Citigroup determines could adversely impact a critical
natural habitat. Included will be a
ban on lending for commercial logging in primary, tropical
forests.
--Refusing loans to companies engaged in illegal logging.
--Developing a program to invest in sustainable forestry and
renewable energy, including financing for solar panels, residential
wind turbines and fuel
cells.
--Reporting greenhouse emissions gasses linked to global warming
from power projects in its portfolio.
Gateway Flaherty said the policy had been discussed companywide and with
clients to ensure cooperation. Citigroup has operations in 100
countries.
Laptop Parts The Rainforest Action Network described Citigroup as "the first
multinational bank to prohibit investment in any extractive
industry (e.g. oil and gas, mining, logging) in primary tropical
forest and place severe restrictions on destructive investment in
all endangered ecosystems worldwide."
Software Of note, it added, is "the finance industry's first illegal
logging policy, requiring documentation of legality prior to
investment in any logging or logging-related projects."
Hard Drives It is not the first time Citigroup has changed its policies
after public protests.
Electronics The bank adopted reforms to eliminate practices that took
advantage of low-income borrowers after community groups bitterly
protested its 2000 purchase of Associates First Capital Corp.,
which specialized in loans to high-risk borrowers. Associates was
later merger into CitiFinancial.
Canon Citigroup's new policy is online at
www.citigroup.com/citigroup/environment/initiatives.htm.
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