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Sustainability
Striving to be a responsible business
Our business practices are guided by our valued behaviours.
We work to operationalise our net zero targets, manage our environmental and social risk, act transparently, and invest in our people – guided by our values ‘Never settle’, ‘Better together’ and ‘Do the right thing’.
Operationalising our net zero targets
We aim to reach net zero in our financed emissions by 2050 and in our own operations by 2025.
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Protecting and restoring nature
Our markets represent some of the richest biodiversity in the world. We want to play a role in protecting and restoring nature to unlock its transformative potential.
Managing our environmental and social risk
For over 20 years, our cross-sector Environmental and Social Risk Management Framework has helped us proactively manage relevant risks and impacts arising from the Group’s client relationships and transactions.
Governed by our frameworks
Three sustainability frameworks provide transparency on our transaction and client eligibility criteria, as well as our approach to mitigating greenwashing risk.
Transition finance
Our markets and clients need investment to decarbonise, but are often locked out of financing. Our framework helps us build momentum to support their transition.
Green and sustainable products
Our in-depth framework sets out our approach to mitigating greenwashing risk and details the eligibility criteria for ‘green’ and ‘sustainable’ labelled transactions and clients.
Sustainability bonds
Our Sustainability Bond Framework maps our eligible projects and clients to specific SDGs and provides the basis for issuance of Green, Social and Sustainability bonds.
Disclosing our impact transparently
We are committed to transparently disclosing our impact across sustainable finance mobilisation, revenue, assets, liabilities, nature-related dependencies, and financed and facilitated emissions.
Reports and disclosures
Access key documents in our Sustainability Library.
A TNFD early adopter
We became an early adopter of the Taskforce for Nature-Related Financial Disclosures in 2024, solidifying our ambition to further embed nature into our financial decision-making.
Embedding sustainability across our business
Investing in our people and communities
Inclusive policies
Our inclusive policies include flexible working and enhanced parental leave, as well as support for those managing menopause and caregiving responsibilities.
Supplier diversity
See how we’re working to increase diversity and inclusion in our supply chain to reflect the diversity of the markets we call home.
Community engagement
We collaborate with local partners to support social and economic development across our footprint.
Standard Chartered has an important role to play in supporting our clients, sectors and markets to deliver net zero, but to do so in a manner that supports livelihoods and promotes sustainable economic growth. We currently provide financial services to clients, sectors and markets that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions however we’re committed to net zero in our own operations by 2025 and in our financed emissions by 2050.