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Bank of China headquarters in Beijing. Photo: Max12Max via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) 
About Bank of China
Bank of China is one of China's Big Four joint-stock commercial banks and was founded in 1912. Bank of China offers commercial banking, investment banking, insurance, asset management, aircraft leasing and other financial services. It is the most internationally orientated bank in China. The bank is majority-owned by the Chinese state (64.04% of shares).
| Website | http://www.boc.cn/en/index.html |
| Headquarters |
No.1 Fuxingmen Nei Street, Xicheng District
100818 Beijing
China
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| CEO/chair |
Liu Liange Chairman |
| Supervisor | |
| Annual report | Annual report 2020 |
| Ownership |
listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchange & Shanghai Stock Exchange
Central Huijin Investment (a state owned investment company) holds a majority share of 64.02%. Bank of China's complete shareholder structure can be viewed here. |
| Complaints and grievances |
Bank of China does not operate a complaints orgrievances channel for individuals or communities that may be adversely affected by the bank's finance. |
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Bank policy scores on fossil fuel financing
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A bank can obtain a total of 200 policy points for its fossil fuel policies; 120 possible points for oil and gas policies and 80 possible points for coal policies. Based on this score banks are then classified as laggards, followers, front runners or leaders.
Bank policy scores on fossil fuel expansion
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The scores for a bank's policies restricting expansion of fossil fuels - in each area, prohibitions against financing projects and/or companies expanding that area - are aggregated into a fossil fuel expansion policy score.
The point-based policy ranking for fossil fuel expansion consists of the following distribution:
- Coal mining: 14 points
- Coal power: 14 points
- Other coal: 7 points
- Tar sands: 7 points
- Arctic oil and gas: 7 points
- Offshore oil and gas: 7 points
- Fracked oil and gas: 7 points
- LNG: 7 points
- Other oil and gas: 12 points
A bank can obtain a total of 82 policy points for its fossil fuel expansion policy. Based on this score, banks are then classified as laggards, followers, front runners or leaders.
Bank policy scores on oil and gas financing
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For tar sands, Arctic oil and gas, fracked oil and gas, offshore oil and gas and LNG, 18 possible policy points can be obtained. For other/conventional oil and gas, 30 policy points can be obtained. In total, a bank can score a total of 120 policy points for its oil and gas policies. Based on this score banks are then classified as laggards, followers, front runners or leaders.
Bank policy scores on tar sands
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The point-based policy ranking above assesses bank policies in four ways:
1) Restriction on direct financing for tar sands projects.
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None (0), weak exclusion (1), moderate exclusion (2), strong exclusion (3)
2) Restriction on financing for companies that expand tar sands.
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None (0), weak exclusion (2), strong exclusion (4)
3) The bank’s commitment to phase-out financing for tar sands.
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None (0), reduction (1.5), weak phase-out (3), strong phase-out (5)
4) The bank’s commitment to exclude companies active in tar sands above a certain threshold.
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None (0), enhanced due diligence (0.5), weak exclusion threshold (2), moderate exclusion threshold (4), strong exclusion threshold (5), full exclusion (6)
A bank can obtain a total of 18 policy points for its tar sands policy. Based on this score banks are then classified as laggards, followers, front runners or leaders.
Bank policy scores on Arctic oil and gas
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