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How sustainable investment works at ABN AMRO
How sustainable are ABN AMRO’s investment services? As sustainable as each individual investor wants them to be, says Global Head of Investment Services & Sustainability Solange Rouschop. ‘We give investors the knowledge to make a considered decision within a wide range of choices.’
Why social entrepreneurship will be booming in 2016
Employment at social enterprises increased by 36 per cent between 2013 and 2015. Their turnover was up 24 per cent during the same period, and the signs for 2016 are even more favourable. Here are three reasons why social entrepreneurship is set to show further growth in 2016. And five ways in which ABN AMRO will contribute to this - for example, by investing in BeeBox’s ‘healthy food’ boxes.
An Alkmaar bank branch is the prime sustainable business case
One of the two goals of the Green Quest last year was to make a mid-sized ABN AMRO bank branch in Alkmaar energy and carbon neutral. Now, though, those horizons have been expanded: if all Dutch offices were to copy this business case, fifty per cent of the Dutch ‘Energy Agreement for Sustainable Growth’, would be met.
’Grieg Green offers a sustainable alternative for shipbreaking
In 2014, three out of four obsolete ships were demolished on the beaches of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, under inhumane and highly polluting conditions. Grieg Green helps ship owners break down their ships to the last nuts and bolts. Anette Berg, head of ABN AMRO’s Maritime Norway department, explains why ABN AMRO is financing and supporting this project.
Banks are also 'changemakers'
Featuring top speakers and an international audience, the second Human Rights Conference focused on a pressing issue: How can the bank use its influence to defend human rights? Watch the compilation of the main messages of speakers, including Kailash Satyarti, founder of the Global March against Child Labour.
Moving to a circular economy - what we are going to do
Starting this year the three major Dutch banks are going to accelerate the move to a circular economy. What are ABN AMRO’s plans? We start with the most pressing issue for business: how to organise production chains in a circular manner. Our new Circular Economy Guide walks them through this process in fourteen key questions and answers.