ING is an office-based organisation and as such our direct impact on the environment is limited to the energy and paper we use and the business trips we make. We call this our direct impact on the environment. Read more about what we do to limit this direct impact on the ‘ING and the Climate’ page.
As well as our direct impact on the environment, there may also be what we call an ‘indirect impact’. For example because our financing activities involve us indirectly in operations which can be harmful to the environment. This mainly applies to financing of the oil, gas, mining, forestry, paper and agricultural sectors.
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We have drawn up sector-specific policies in order to prevent or limit this indirect impact as much as possible. An example is our policy on forestry and plantations, which states that ING will not provide funding to oil palm companies whose operations involve illegal deforestation or destruction of tropical rain forest.
For more information about our environmental policy, go to our website www.ing.com/cr and click on Principles and Policies, where you will find our Business Principles, our Environmental Statement, the Equator Principles and our sector-specific policies
ING offers its customers a wide range of sustainable products that contribute to a better environment. These range from sustainable investment funds such as the Postbank Klimaatfonds (climate fund),
to environmental interest certificates (groenrentecertificaten) and sustainable lease products. For more information on our sustainable products, ask your local branch or go to www.ing.com/cr.