As of March 2021, most signatory banks included in a report of UN Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB) worldwide completely or partially aligned their business operations with their sustainability goals. More than 150 out of 203 banks included successfully integrated sustainability into their sales, origination, and financing processes.
Stage of integration of sustainable goals into banks' operations worldwide as of March 2021, by type of process
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The source adds the following information: "Data submitted by banks for this report may be up to 6 or 12 months old, and therefore some results may not be fully indicative of where bank’s stand in their implementation journey at the date of publication of this report."
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UNEP. (October 13, 2021). Stage of integration of sustainable goals into banks' operations worldwide as of March 2021, by type of process [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved June 02, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1283432/integration-of-sustainability-into-banks-processes/
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