Green Banking in Bangladesh Fostering Environmentally Sustainable Inclusive Growth Process Authors Khondkar Morshed Millat Rubayat Chowdhury Edward Apurba Singha Bangladesh Bank
Foreword Dr. Atiur Rahman
Bangladesh Bank Spearheading Green Banking in Bangladesh
Bangladesh and Climate Change Destruction of Cyclone Sidr in 2007
Bangladesh Climate Change Trust Fund (BCCTF) Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund (BCCRF)
Bangladesh Bank supporting financing of renewable energy generation and other environmentally benign projects Bangladesh Bank
About Green Banking In-house green activities include: Green activities in financing include:
Green Strategic Planning
Green Transformations in Internal Practices Following landmark achievements have been made at Bangladesh Bank towards establishing identity as a leading green central bank amongst developing economies. Solar panel at BB Head Office BB Governor inaugurating solar panel at BB Head Office Data Centre at BB Head Office
Green Banking Policy: The Green Banking Policy promoted by Bangladesh Bank has been phased out to internalize learning by doing principle.
In order to incentivize the participating banks to engage more proactively in green banking activities, the central bank has decided to provide following preferential treatments: Status of Green Finance under BB's Refinance Scheme Bangladesh Bank refinance scheme for promotion of green projects As of October 2012, Taka 838.4 million out of Taka 2.0 billion revolving fund has already been allocated to the following green projects: Category Amount (in million Taka)
Incorporation of Environmental Risk in Core Risk Management (CRM) EnvRR information during 2012
Allocation for Green Banking Area Amount (in million Taka) Green Finance: Bank Category Allocation for year 2012 Utilization (January-September 2012) SCBs PCBs FCBs SDBs Total 20,034.59 3,273.69
Climate Risk Fund Climate change worsening river erosion Online Banking Type of banks Total number of branches Number of branches with online banking facility % of branches with online banking facility SCBs PCBs FCBs SDBs Total
Mobile Banking: ATM Services of Banks Bank types Branches powered by solar energy SME/ATM units powered by solar energy SCBs PCBs SDBs FCBs Total Branches/ SME/ATM Units Powered by Solar Energy
Banks' In-house Green Activities
Case Studies Trust Bank Biogas plant financed by Trust Bank Mutual Trust Bank (MTB) Solar irrigation pump financed by MTBL
Eastern Bank Solar panel manufacturing plant financed by Eastern Bank Islami Bank Bank Alfalah Solar panel at the rooftop of Islami Bank Bank Alfalah launched first ever solar-powered ATM booth
Challenges and way forward in green banking as seen by bankers Concluding Remarks
Annexure A Green Banking Activities at a Glance
Annexure B Green Banking Slogans of Banks Special Events/Features of Banks Special Events/ Features of Banks
Annexure - C Progress in Green Banking- League Table Rupali IFIC EXIM Sonali BASIC Bank Asia SIBL Standard Chartered Shahjalal Islami One Rupali IFIC EXIM SIBL BASIC Sonali Bank Asia Janata Standard Chartered Shahjalal Islami Trust National BASIC Mutual Trust BDBL Prime One Bank Islami Bank Asia Exim
Social Islami BASIC Rupali Prime Exim Islami National Agrani IFIC Rupali UCBL Pubali HSBC Islami SIBL ICB Islamic RAKUB AB IFIC St.Chart Bank Asia SIBL Jamuna BASIC Shahjalal EXIM Dhaka No. of projects rated
Annexure D Guidelines on Environmental Risk Management (ERM)
Introduction: Annexure E Policy Guidelines for Green Banking
Bangladesh Bank's Earlier Initiatives: Adopting Green Banking Policy:
1. Phase-I 1.1 Policy Formulation and Governance 1.2 Incorporation of Environmental Risk in CRM
1.3 Initiating In-house Environment Management 1.4 Introducing Green finance 1.5 Creation of Climate Risk Fund
1.6 Introducing Green Marketing 1.7 Online Banking 1.8 Supporting Employee Training, Consumer Awareness and Green Event 1.9 Disclosure and Reporting of Green Banking Activities 2. Phase-II
2.1 Sector Specific Environmental Policies 2.2 Green Strategic Planning 2.3 Setting up Green Branches 2.4 Improved In-house Environment Management
2.5 Formulation of Bank Specific Environmental Risk Management Plan and Guidelines 2.6 Rigorous Programs to Educate Clients 2.7 Disclosure and Reporting of Green Banking Activities 3. Phase-III: 3.1 Designing and Introducing Innovative Products
3.2 Reporting in Standard Format with External Verification 4. Reporting Green Banking Practices on Quarterly Basis 5. The compliant banks practicing Green Banking will have the following preferential treatments:
Reporting Green Banking activities under Phase II
Annexure F
Annexure G Green Banking in Media Bangladesh Bank takes effective measures for green technology
Green technology to protect environment
Annexure H List of Terms and Acronyms