Commerzbank

Assessment year: 2017

Total score 
3 out of 5
Awareness, understanding and intent 
2 out of 5
Commodity 
3 out of 5
Scope 
3 out of 5
Implementation, monitoring and reporting 
1 out of 5

Assessment year: 2016

Total score 
3 out of 5
Overall forest policy 
3 out of 5
Policy strength 
3 out of 5
Reporting and transparency 
4 out of 5
Financial institution type 
Bank
HQ 
Germany

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 

Commerzbank are a German retail, commercial and investment banking group, offering services to private and corporate customers. Their services include wealth management, investment banking, insurance, pensions, corporate finance and retail banking services. As of 2017, Commerzbank has more than 480 billion EUR in total assets, including over 215 billion EUR in claims on customers. Commerzbank are among the top 35 lenders to Forest 500 companies, with loans amounting to more than 8 billion USD across a broad range of forest risk sectors.

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Score
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Score
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Score
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Score
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