Intesa Sanpaolo

Assessment year: 2018

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

Assessment year: 2017

Total score 
1 out of 5
Awareness, understanding and intent 
2 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 
2 out of 5
Overall forest policy 
2 out of 5
Policy strength 
2 out of 5
Reporting and transparency 
4 out of 5
Financial institution type 
Asset manager, Bank
HQ 
Italy

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 

Intesa Sanpaolo are an Italian banking group serving private and corporate clients. Their services include corporate finance, investment banking, capital markets, asset management, insurance, pensions, and retail banking services. As of 2017, Intesa Sanpaolo’s total assets stand at more than 780 billion EUR with close to 400 billion EUR in customer loans. Intesa Sanpaolo are among the top 45 lenders to Forest 500 companies, with more than 5 billion USD in loans 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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Disclaimer

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