ING BSK targets: PLN 5.3 billion for ecodesign by 2023, carbon neutrality by 2030
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ING Bank Slaski will allocate PLN 5.3bn to finance ecological projects until the end of 2023 and is committed to achieving climate neutrality by 2030, according to the bank’s new Environmental Declaration announced Thursday. As Joanna Erdman, the bank’s vice president, emphasized in an interview with ISBnews, the bank counts, among other things, on strengthening its market position in issuing green bonds for businesses and local governments and in promoting electromobility.
“This document is a signal that we take seriously the environmental goals and actions supporting the environment that are taken by us and by our clients. It proves that, in particular, the fight against climate change - because the Environmental Declaration 2021 focuses on precisely the climate crisis - is important to us, that we participate in it very strongly, that we do more and more in this area, and that we will support our clients in the transformation processes,” Erdman said in an interview with ISBnews.
In the new Declaration, ING Bank Śląski ensures that by the end of 2023 it will allocate PLN 4.5 billion in the corporate area to finance renewable energy sources (RES) and pro-environmental projects.
The Bank also declared that by the end of 2023 it will allocate PLN 500 million to support local government units in investing in pro-environmental projects (the “Green Municipality/Self-Government” project).
Among possible forms of cooperation she mentioned risk transfer related to e.g. energy investment, financing of hybrid or ecological fleet, as well as e.g. solar installations on the roofs of municipal administration buildings. An important role is to be played by organizing the issue of green bonds.
