Beginning with the EU's Action Plan on Sustainable Finance in 2018, the last few years have seen a significant increase in interest by policymakers to implement policies that tackle climate-related financial risk, aim to reorient capital flows towards a more sustainable economy and mainstream sustainability issues into financial decision-making. The UN PRI's regulation database has tracked more than 750 relevant policy interventions globally, with notable recent policy developments including the EU's Renewed Sustainable Finance Strategy (2021) and the Biden Administration's Executive Order on Climate-Related Financial Risk (2021).
InfluenceMap continually tracks and analyzes the positioning of more than 80 of the largest Europe and US-based financial institutions on sustainable finance policy, alongside their key industry associations.
InfluenceMap maintains the world’s leading database of lobbying on climate policy around the globe.
In 2020, InfluenceMap expanded this work to cover sustainable finance policy, with the methodology closely following the existing methodology on climate policy which can be found here.
Below is a ranking table with the financial institutions included in this research. A summary profile and full access to the data underlying the assessments can be accessed via the links in the table.
| Influencemap Performance Band | Organization | Engagement Intensity | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | ABN AMRO | 10 | Financials | Europe |
| C- | abrdn, formerly Standard Life Aberdeen | 26 | Financials | Europe |
| C+ | Achmea | 5 | Financials | Europe |
| C- | Aegon | 19 | Financials | Europe |
| D | Ageas | 2 | Financials | Europe |
| C | Allianz | 42 | Financials | Europe |
| D | American International Group | 4 | Financials | North America |
| D+ | Ameriprise Financial | 10 | Financials | North America |
| B- | APG | 7 | Financials | Europe |
| B | Aviva | 49 | Financials | Europe |
| C+ | AXA | 30 | Financials | Europe |
| D | Baloise | 1 | Financials | Europe |
| D+ | Bank Of America | 10 | Banks | North America |
| C- | Scotiabank | 15 | Financials | North America |
| D+ | Barclays | 24 | Banks | Europe |
| C- | BBVA | 32 | Financials | Europe |
| D | Berkshire Hathaway | 1 | Industrials | North America |
| D+ | BlackRock | 41 | Asset Management | North America |
| C- | BNP Paribas | 46 | Financials | Europe |
| D+ | BNY Mellon | 29 | Financials | North America |
| C+ | CaixaBank | 6 | Financials | Europe |
| D | Capital Group | 9 | Financials | North America |
| D | Chubb | 3 | Financials | Europe |
| D+ | Citigroup | 21 | Banks | North America |
| D | CNP Assurances | 2 | Financials | Europe |
| C- | Commerzbank | 9 | Banks | Europe |
| D | Covea | 5 | Financials | Europe |
| D+ | Credit Agricole | 26 | Financials | Europe |
| D | Crédit Mutuel | 2 | Financials | Europe |
| D+ | Credit Suisse | 11 | Financials | Europe |
| C | Danske Bank | 22 | Financials | Europe |
| C- | Deutsche Bank | 28 | Financials | Europe |
| D | DZ Bank | 2 | Financials | Europe |
| D | Fidelity Investments | 7 | Asset Management | North America |
| C+ | Franklin Templeton Investments | 19 | Financials | North America |
| C- | Generali | 12 | Financials | Europe |
| D | Goldman Sachs | 16 | Financials | North America |
| D- | Groupama | 7 | Financials | Europe |
| C | Groupe BPCE | 47 | Financials | Europe |
| C- | HSBC | 35 | Financials | Europe |
| C- | ING | 17 | Financials | Europe |
| C- | Intesa Sanpaolo | 15 | Financials | Europe |
| C- | Invesco | 25 | Financials | North America |
| D | J.P. Morgan | 23 | Financials | North America |
| D | KLP | 1 | Financials | Europe |
| B | Legal & General | 32 | Financials | Europe |
| C- | Lloyds Banking Group | 8 | Banks | Europe |
| C- | Morgan Stanley | 17 | Financials | North America |
| D | Munich Re | 2 | Financials | Europe |
| C | NatWest Group | 14 | Financials | Europe |
| B- | NN Group | 10 | Financials | Europe |
| B- | Nordea | 29 | Financials | Europe |
| D+ | Northern Trust | 12 | Financials | North America |
| B- | Phoenix Group | 7 | Financials | Europe |
| C- | Prudential | 3 | Financials | Europe |
| D+ | Prudential Financial Inc | 10 | Financials | North America |
| N/A | PZU | 1 | Financials | Europe |
| C+ | Rabobank | 13 | Financials | Europe |
| D+ | Santander | 15 | Financials | Europe |
| D+ | Schroders | 32 | Asset Management | Europe |
| C- | Societe Generale | 27 | Financials | Europe |
| C- | Standard Chartered | 23 | Banks | Europe |
| D | State Street | 32 | Financials | North America |
| D+ | Swiss Life | 1 | Financials | Europe |
| D | Swiss Re | 16 | Financials | Europe |
| D+ | Talanx | 1 | Financials | Europe |
| C- | TIAA | 17 | Financials | North America |
| D- | U.S. Bancorp | 4 | Financials | North America |
| D+ | UBS | 19 | Financials | Europe |
| C- | UniCredit | 11 | Banks | Europe |
| C+ | Unipol | 20 | Financials | Europe |
| D+ | Vanguard | 9 | Asset Management | North America |
| D+ | Wells Fargo | 12 | Banks | North America |
| D+ | Zurich Insurance | 19 | Financials | Europe |
| D | State Farm Insurance | 0 | Financials | North America |
| D- | Metlife | 0 | Financials | North America |
| D | New York Life Insurance Company | 0 | Financials | North America |
| D | Lincoln National Corporation | 0 | Financials | North America |
| D | Northwestern Mutual | 0 | Financials | North America |
| D | Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company | 0 | Financials | North America |
| D+ | Charles Schwab | 4 | Financials | North America |
