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Auping launches bedzzzy, a fully circular mattress
The separate components from which mattresses are made are so tightly meshed that they are almost impossible to separate and reuse. This is why more and more mattresses end up in landfills every day. Auping sees this as a tremendous waste. The company has launched a fully circular mattress, in the form of a flexible sleep subscription. “Sustainable choices should be available to everyone".
Principles for Responsible Investment driving sustainable investment
ABN AMRO has been committed to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) since 2006. Supported by the United Nations, the PRI are an international initiative to improve the sustainability of investment. At the annual PRI meeting in Paris last September, the bank announced that sustainable investments have doubled over the past two years.
Circl Academy: teaching sustainability in theory and putting it into practice
ABN AMRO’s sustainability strategy and ambitions enjoy enthusiastic support from the bank’s employees. The Circl Academy was recently set up to further improve the general level of understanding of sustainability.
Quantifying improvements in sustainability with Impact Based Banking
For ABN AMRO to help clients on the road to a sustainable future, it’s vital that the sustainability measures can be quantified. That’s why the bank has formed a partnership with sustainability platform Ecochain, called Impact Based Banking.
Problem debt: awareness and help
A third of the households in the Netherlands struggle to get by. More than 1.3 million households have difficulty paying their bills. While most of these issues are kept behind closed doors, problem debt in fact represents a big problem for society. ABN AMRO offers an app, financial awareness reports and Financial Grip Coaches to help prevent and overcome debt problems.
Impact Banking helps ‘smallholder farmers’ to improve
Around the world some 500 million ‘smallholder farmers’ struggle to get by. Many of them do business, directly or indirectly, with large commodities companies that are clients of ABN AMRO. To help them, the bank has joined forces with clients and non-profit organisations to provide loans to this vulnerable group.