Understanding Environmental and Social Risk

Extracted 29AUG2011 from http://firstforsustainability.org/risk-management/understanding-environmental...

A financial institution's transaction with a client/investee can represent a financial, legal and/or reputational risk to the financial institution. Because environmental and social issues are inherent in client/investee operations, almost all transactions are exposed to some degree of environmental and social risk.

2-1-es-impacts-of-clients-high