Environmental Responsibility of the Banking Sector in UAE: Practices to Confront Climate Change Risks

Shaymaa Al-Said Salem () and Dina Elkhattat ()
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Shaymaa Al-Said Salem: Helwan University, Egypt
Dina Elkhattat: Ain Shams University, Egypt

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Abstract: With the climate change challenges and risks they impose on the environment, corporate organizations' interest in environmental and sustainable development issues is no longer a strategic choice but rather an imperative. In this context, UAE paid great attention to environmental sustainability issues and reflected it in the "UAE Vision 2030." Moreover, the national banking sector in the UAE was keen to adopt environmental responsibility practices to support the state's efforts by reducing the negative risks of climate change. This qualitative study aimed to shed light on the concept of environmental responsibility, in line with appropriate theoretical approaches, such as Stakeholder Theory and the Environmental Responsibility Model, by applying a case study of Emirates NBD. The results showed that Emirates NBD's interest in applying the concept of sustainable environmental management as a strategic priority and integrating various stakeholders into environmental responsibility initiatives to rationalize energy consumption and reduce carbon emissions resulting from bank operations to face climate change challenges. In this regard, several initiatives have been implemented, in addition to the bank's partnerships with other local and international institutions. This study suggests that governments should encourage the banking sector to finance major environmental projects as part of their environmental responsibility practices.

Keywords: Corporate Environmental Responsibility; Corporate Sustainability; Green Banks; Climate change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 9 pages
Date: 2023-03
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Published in the Scientia Moralitas Conference Proceedings, on February 19-20, 2023, pages 1-9

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