Norinchukin Bank

Assessment year: 2018

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: 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 
1 out of 5
Overall forest policy 
1 out of 5
Policy strength 
0 out of 5
Reporting and transparency 
0 out of 5
Financial institution type 
Asset manager, Bank
HQ 
Japan

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 

Norinchukin Bank are a financial institution with headquarters in Japan founded by Japanese agriculture, forestry and fishery cooperatives. Enshrined in law, Norinchukin Bank’s services include deposit services, securities, corporate finance, investments and debentures for companies related to agriculture, forestry and fishery. As of March 2017, their total assets amount to over 980 billion USD with more than 100 billion USD of loans and bills discounted. Norinchukin Bank are one of the top 55 lenders to Forest 500 companies, with more than 4 billion USD worth of loans to companies across the agricultural, forestry, construction and packaged food sectors.

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