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Responsibilities of Banks to Mitigate Climate Change: A Study into Climate Change Best Practices Amongst Banks

June 14, 2006

SiRi Company network partner Dutch Sustainability Research (DSR) today published a report with best practice guidelines for commercial banks to mitigate climate change. The guidelines aim to provide a reference framework for banks in order to reduce direct CO2 emissions from operations and, more importantly to reduce their indirect CO2 emission caused by their clients' operations. The report was commissioned by Milieudefensie - Friends of the Earth Netherlands.

To download the full report, please visit www.siricompany.com/news.shtml

Stefano Gilardi

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