Agricultural Bank of China

Assessment year: 2018

Total score 
0 out of 5
Awareness, understanding and intent 
0 out of 5
Commodity 
0 out of 5
Scope 
0 out of 5
Implementation, monitoring and reporting 
0 out of 5

Assessment year: 2017

Total score 
0 out of 5
Awareness, understanding and intent 
0 out of 5
Commodity 
0 out of 5
Scope 
0 out of 5
Implementation, monitoring and reporting 
0 out of 5

Assessment year: 2016

Total score 
1 out of 5
Overall forest policy 
2 out of 5
Policy strength 
0 out of 5
Reporting and transparency 
0 out of 5

Assessment year: 2015

Total score 
1 out of 5
Overall forest policy 
1 out of 5
Policy strength 
0 out of 5
Reporting and transparency 
1 out of 5

Assessment year: 2014

Total score 
1 out of 5
Overall forest policy 
1 out of 5
Policy strength 
0 out of 5
Reporting and transparency 
1 out of 5
Financial institution type 
Bank
HQ 
China

Collective commitments

Banking Environment Initiative member
No
New York Declaration on Forests signatory
No

150 Financial institutions

Investors and lenders need to adopt and implement environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria that ensure their investments are not funding deforestation. For analysis of how the financial sector is performing click here.

This assessment has been carried out following the assessment methodology developed for the Forest 500 project.

Profile 

Agricultural Bank of China Ltd. are a bank headquartered in China serving corporate and private clients. Their services include personal, investment, private and retail banking, asset management, wealth management, loans, cash management, and trading and financial market services. As of 2017, their total assets amount to more than 20 trillion RMB with over 10 trillion RMB worth of loans. Agricultural Bank of China Ltd. are among the top 50 lenders to Forest 500 companies, with loans amounting to more than 5.5 billion USD across a broad range of forest risk sectors.

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