Measuring environmental performance of banks: Evidence from Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) reporting banks

Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences

 
 
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Title Measuring environmental performance of banks: Evidence from Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) reporting banks
 
Creator Bimha, Alfred Nhamo, Godwell
 
Subject Environmental Management Performance; Sustainability; Stakeholders; Carbon Disclosure; Banks
Description The need to measure the environmental performance of banks stems from the important role they occupy in the financial system as intermediator between savers and borrowers. Moreover, the growth in environmentally friendly business has created a need for banks to reconsider their business models. Potential investors are now looking for companies with green operations credentials. This study embarked on measuring and investigating banks, by country of origin, that are performing well in implementing their own environmental policies. Using the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) questionnaire answers, the study constructed an Environmental Management Performance (EMP) scoring index that was compared to the banks
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2017-06-06
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion —
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/jef.v10i1.3
 
Source Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences; Vol 10, No 1 (2017); 26-46 2312-2803 1995-7076
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2017 Alfred Bimha, Godwell Nhamo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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