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Insights from green banking: What keeps customers from switching banks?

March 1, 2021 by ديان أوسجود ، دكتوراه. Leave a Comment

Bank with solar panel on roof
Where you bank can lead to a greener, more just world.

ESG may be all the rage, but what about retail banking?

The deposits you make at your retail bank for personal and business accounts sustain the bank’s ability to make loans and investments. Loans and investment fuel growth. Put simply, a bank’s capital can flow towards fossil fuels or renewable energy, towards local business loans or financing environmentally damaging projects.

Imagine if all retail banks required environmental impact assessments for loan applications. Or committed a certain percentage of loans and investments for renewable energy projects.

Certainly, this is a vision all climate-concerned citizens can support, and the opportunity to influence banking as citizens is large. Most U.S. households (93 percent) have a checking or savings account while only 52 percent own stock …

To continue, read my guest blog on GreenBiz.

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About ديان أوسجود ، دكتوراه.

A sustainability pioneer. Founder of Osgood Consulting. I help companies such as Virgin, DuPont and Dow build profits with purpose and material ESG performance.

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