The financial services industry has considerable impact on the
environment, directly through the consumption of energy and other
resources, and indirectly through supply chains, and through the
provision of finance for, or investment in, businesses or
projects.
Indirect impacts arise in the way banks conceive, design and
deliver their core business products and services, for example, in
fund management, underwriting, claims handling and purchasing. And
direct impacts arise in the following activities: property
management, energy and water use, paper use, waste management and
travel and transport. Within each impact area, businesses should be
responsible for gathering and monitoring their environmental
performance and incorporating this within their corporate social
responsibility reports.
Mott MacDonald helps both the private sector and international
development banks ensure they properly identify, prioritise and
manage environmental risks, apply their policies in a manner
sensitive to local cultures and circumstances, and promote in their
full range of activities, environmental and sustainable
development.
Our expertise in finance includes:
Recent projects include:
- Providing lenders' construction and pre-construction due
diligence for power plant projects worldwide, including, India,
China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the UK
- Environmental and technical reviews for the lender for 'energy
from waste plant' project, UK
- Developing and undertaking an environmental screening procedure
the World Bank, to ensure that projects applying for funding comply
with local and Bank environmental regulations
- Providing Lender's technical and environmental advise for a
water and wastewater concession, Bulgaria
- Undertaking a lender's environmental due diligence study for a
loan for water projects, Philippines
