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Crowdfunding
Restoring religious heritage, which can be centuries old, is a costly procedure. But it is a very important priority, residents of towns and villages have stated. How do you go about gathering the required money? By using crowdfunding.
Interview with Floris Lyppens: Long-term investment in sustainable society and a good life
Offshore wind farms will become an important source of stable and sustainable energy for prosperous and densely populated parts of the world. Floris Lyppens is Head of Structured Debt at ABN AMRO, and one of his projects is to work together with a team of specialists to finance maritime wind power projects. Below, he explains how this new market works.
This is what we learned from the sustainable makeover of our headquarters
As from this summer, ABN AMRO's head office on Gustav Mahlerlaan in Amsterdam is officially among the top sustainable buildings in the Netherlands. The facility management team's efforts have been rewarded with a BREEAM Excellent certificate.
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Seasoned investors are worldly wise enough to know how society ticks, so why don't we get them to join our governments and charities in tackling society’s problems? With this question in mind, the first Social Impact Bond was launched five years ago. The purpose was to finance a reintegration programme for the jail of Peterborough in the UK. Social Impact Bonds have huge potential. Plenty of reason for ABN AMRO to be a trendsetter in the Netherlands.
Interview with Rutger Schuur
ABN AMRO is going all out to speed up the process of making its property portfolio sustainable. The ambitious goal is to be crowned 'most sustainable real estate bank of the Netherlands' by 2017. How, exactly? We asked Head of Real Estate & Public Sector Clients Rutger Schuur.
Human rights issues are much closer to home than we think
Can a bank prevent the violation of human rights? Yes, to a much greater degree than done so far, says sustainable banker and corporate activist Maria Anne van Dijk. ABN AMRO is organising its second International Human Rights Conference on 9 December.