Ecoefficiency Guide to Banking Services
The Ecoefficiency Guide to Banking Services is intended to provide Latin American commercial bankers with analysis criteria and implementation tools in order to more effectively manage environmental and social risks in their banks' internal operations as well as in their external relations, products and services.
This guide is based on the findings and experience of leading Swiss and international banks. The experience show that ecoefficiency definition of the concept is not only good environmental/social practice, but it also reduces operational costs and provides for strategic competitive advantage in the globalized financial markets.
This guide is an adaptation of the UNEP guidelines to environmental management in financial institutions. The UNEP Financial Institutions Initiative on the Environment made these guidelines available to banks across the world through the Initiative's web site.
In addition, the Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development (CLACDS) has duplicated them it with permission from UNEP to make them available to the entire Latin American financial sector.Ecoefficiency concerns many areas of banking. This guide has therefore been designed for the following departments and areas of concern:
