Italy central bank to spurn firms that don't go green
By Trend
The Bank of Italy plans to adopt investment criteria which reward companies that take action on climate change, joining other central banks, commercial banks and fund managers in ratcheting up pressure on boardrooms to go green, reports Trend citing to Reuters
The criteria will apply by end-June to the Italian central bank’s roughly 8 billion euros ($8.9 billion) in shareholdings and later be extended to its 1 billion euros in corporate bond holdings, the bank said in a statement posted on its web site.
The criteria exclude firms that do not adopt U.N. principles on human rights, labor, the environment and anti-corruption.
The Bank of Italy is a member of the Network for Greening the Financial System, a global financial group which treats climate change as a threat to financial stability.
An independent adviser will help the Bank of Italy to spot the best-in-class companies in terms of environmental, social and governance standards, the bank said.
The central bank did not give a timeframe for when the new investment criteria would apply to corporate bond holdings.
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