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Website http://www.cebbank.com
Headquarters
China Everbright Center, 25 Taipingqiao Avenue
Xicheng District, Beijing
China
CEO/chair Wang Zhiheng
Secretary of CPC Committee of the Bank, Executive Director, President
Supervisor
China Banking and Investment Regulatory Commission (CBIRC)
Ownership
listed on Shanghai Stock Exchange

China Everbright Bank is majority-shareholder is the Chinese government (45.79%). The bank's complete shareholder structure can be accessed here.

China Everbright Bank (CEB) was established in August 1992 and is headquartered in Beijing. The bank focuses on the Chinese domestic market and has established 1,290 branches and outlets. The bank is a joint-stock commercial bank and was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2010. The bank serves personal and corporate clients and offers a variety of services, including personal safety deposits, wealth management, credit cards, underwriting loans, and trade financing.

Sustainability
Commitments
Policies
Voluntary standards

China Everbright Bank's most important sustainability commitments can be found at the website section listed below.

Links

Environment website

ESG policies

Environmental and Climate Risk Management

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2023-09-26 00:00:00 | China Everbright Bank

Guidelines on environmental information disclosure for financial institutions

Bank policy
2021-07-22 00:00:00 | People's Bank of China

Environmental policy

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2021-01-18 00:00:00 | China Everbright Bank

Supplier code of conduct

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2021-01-18 00:00:00 | China Everbright Bank
China Everbright Bank has committed itself to the following voluntary standards:
Global Reporting InitiativeTags: sustainable development | human rights
Dodgy Deals

China Everbright Bank is linked to a number of companies and projects that BankTrack considers controversial (so called Dodgy Deals), e.g. as a current or past financier or through an expression of interest. The profiles below provide more details on the nature of China Everbright Bank's link to these deals.

Projects / Companies
Finance type
Year
News
BankTrack
Partners
Blog
External
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Energy supply financing ratios: the next milestone in banks’ climate strategy

The energy supply financing ratio is a key indicator that synthesizes two major challenges in limiting global warming to 1.5°C: the phase-out of fossil fuels and the development of sustainable alternatives.
2024-10-07 | Reclaim Finance
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Banks financed fossil fuels by $6.9 trillion dollars since the Paris Agreement; $705 billion provided in 2023 alone; JPMorgan Chase, Mizuho, and Bank of America are worst 3 funders

Annual Banking on Climate Chaos report with an updated methodology offers comprehensive look at who’s bankrolling the climate crisis
2024-05-13 | BankTrack, urgewald, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Banks have not quit coal, 8 years after the Paris Agreement

Banks in China dominate global coal financing; those in Indonesia are outliers in having increased finance for coal since 2016
2024-05-03 | Nijmegen | Will O'Sullivan – BankTrack
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

The banks financing dirty steel

The world’s major banks continue to support the largest and most polluting steel producers
2024-03-26 | Paris, France | Reclaim Finance
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Decarbonization: steel not making the cut

Analysis by Reclaim Finance shows that few financial institutions have steel targets, and that those that have been adopted are riddled with flaws
2023-08-23 | Reclaim Finance
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

New report: Canadian bank RBC the #1 financier of fossil fuels, world’s biggest banks continued to pour billions into fossil fuel expansion

Annual Banking on Climate Chaos report follows the money and details massive bank support for the world’s worst climate-destroying corporations
2023-04-13 | San Francisco | BankTrack, urgewald, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Santos announces refinancing of syndicated debt facilities

Santos announced it had executed documentation to amend and extend its two syndicated bank loan facilities totalling US$1.25 billion.
2022-08-30 | Santos
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

CBIRC releases the Green Finance Guidelines for Banking and Insurance Sectors

2022-06-02 | China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

New report: Despite ‘net zero’ rhetoric, world’s biggest banks continued to pour billions into fossil fuel expansion in 2021

Annual Banking on Climate Chaos report follows the money and details massive bank support for the world’s worst climate-destroying corporations
2022-03-30 | San Francisco, Bemidji, Nijmegen, Oakland, Paris, Sassenberg, Washington DC | BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club, Urgewald
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

A future without coal: banking on Asia's just energy transition

2021-11-10 | Fair Finance Asia
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Fossil Banks No Thanks demands banks commit to end fossil fuel finance before Glasgow Climate Summit

210+ groups support urgent call to action
2021-09-23 | BankTrack
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

China is world’s second largest financier of deforestation-linked commodities

New study finds significant risk associated with nearly 15 billion USD in loans and underwriting by Chinese financial institutions
2021-05-04 | BankTrack, Forests & Finance, Profundo, Rainforest Action Network
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Banking on Climate Chaos 2021: World’s 60 largest banks have poured USD 3.8 trillion into fossil fuels since Paris Agreement

Even amidst the global economic downturn, fossil fuel financing numbers were higher in 2020 than 2016
2021-03-24 | Nijmegen | BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Groundbreaking research reveals the financiers of the coal industry

Today, Urgewald & partners published an analysis of the financiers & investors behind the entire coal industry for the 1st time. One of the shocking results was that banks provide more money to coal than in 2016.
2021-02-25 | urgewald, Reclaim Finance
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Cambodia: Communities impacted by Lower Sesan 2 Hydropower Project seek IFC dispute resolution process; Companies' responses

2021-02-22 | BHRRC
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Regulator Criticizes Three Bond Underwriters in Yongcheng Coal Scandal

2021-01-18 | Caixing Global
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Global finance sector failing to apply conservation criteria to pulp and paper funding

2020-03-21 | New York/Amsterdam | Environmental Paper Network
Blog
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Massive forest fires and haze in Indonesia create public health and climate crisis

2019-09-19 | Environmental Paper Network
BankTrack news BankTrack blog Partner news Partner blog

Time to volunteer

2010-08-03 | China Dialogue
Resources
Documents
Links

Banking on climate chaos 2024

Fossil fuel finance report 2024
BankTrack publication
2024-05-13 00:00:00 | BankTrack, urgewald, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance & Sierra Club

Still Banking on Coal press release

Commercial Banks Still Deep into Coal 8 Years After Paris
Partner publication
2024-05-02 00:00:00 | Urgewald

Commercial Banks Still Deep into Coal 8 Years After Paris

NGO document
2024-05-02 00:00:00 | Urgewald

Annual report 2023

Annual report
2024-04-15 00:00:00 | China Everbright Bank

Environmental and Climate Risk Management

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2023-09-26 00:00:00 | China Everbright Bank

CSR report 2022

Annual report
2023-06-19 00:00:00 | China Everbright Bank

Annual report 2022

Annual report
2023-06-13 00:00:00 | China Everbright Bank

Banking on Climate Chaos 2023

Annual Banking on Climate Chaos report follows the money and details massive bank support for the world’s worst climate-destroying corporations
BankTrack publication
2023-04-13 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club, Urgewald

Background briefing: Just 7% of global banks' energy financing goes to renewables, new data shows

BankTrack publication
2023-01-27 00:00:00 | Profundo for Sierra Club, Fair Finance International, BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network

Who is Who No. 3 - Chinese commercial banks: an NGO guide

Partner publication
2023-01-23 00:00:00 | Urgewald

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP): Finance Risk Update No. 3 (Chinese version)

东非原油管道：金融风险简报（更新三）
BankTrack publication
2022-09-12 00:00:00 | BankTrack

Annual report 2021

Annual report
2022-07-05 00:00:00 | China Everbright Bank

CSR report 2021

Annual report
2022-07-04 00:00:00 | China Everbright Bank

Banking on Climate Chaos 2022

Despite ‘net zero’ rhetoric, world’s biggest banks continued to pour billions into fossil fuel expansion in 2021
BankTrack publication
2022-03-30 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club, urgewald

Guidelines on environmental information disclosure for financial institutions

Bank policy
2021-07-22 00:00:00 | People's Bank of China

CSR Report 2020

Annual report
2021-07-06 00:00:00 | China Everbright Bank

Annual report 2020

Annual report
2021-03-18 00:00:00 | China Everbright Bank

Environmental policy

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2021-01-18 00:00:00 | China Everbright Bank

Supplier code of conduct

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
Bank policy
2021-01-18 00:00:00 | China Everbright Bank

Annual report 2019

Annual report
2020-07-31 00:00:00 | China Everbright Bank

CSR report 2019

Annual report
2020-07-31 00:00:00 | China Everbright Bank

Going out, but going green?

Assessing the implementation of China's Green Credit Guidelines
BankTrack publication
2014-11-25 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Friends of the Earth US

Green Credit Footprint of Chinese banks (2008-2012)

-Chinese version-
NGO document
2013-11-25 00:00:00 | Green Watershed

Environmental report on Chinese banks 2011

-English summary-
NGO document
2012-11-26 00:00:00 | Green Watershed

Environmental Report on Chinese Banks (2011)

-Chinese version-
NGO document
2012-04-18 00:00:00 | Green Watershed

Executive Summary of Environmental Report on Chinese Banks (2011)

NGO document
2012-03-28 00:00:00 | Green Watershed

Notice of the CBRC on Issuing the Green Credit Guidelines

Other bank document
2012-02-24 00:00:00 | China Banking Regulatory Commission

民间环保组织就陆良化工铬污染事件致16家中资上市银行的公开信（Chinese）

Correspondence
2011-08-29 00:00:00 | Green Watershed

An Open Letter from a Coalition of Environmental NGOs to 16 Chinese banks Regarding the Chromium Pollution Incident in Luliang(English)

Correspondence
2011-08-29 00:00:00 | Green Watershed

China Everbright Bank Cluster Munitions Investments

Other document
2011-05-25 00:00:00 | Netwerk Vlaanderen & IKV Pax Christi

China Sustainable Finance Newsletter #11 -English-

NGO document
2011-03-08 00:00:00 | Friends of the Earth US

China Sustainable Finance newsletter #9 -English-

NGO document
2010-09-01 00:00:00 | Friends of the Earth US

Chinese Banks Report -Chinese-

NGO document
2010-04-29 00:00:00 | Green Watershed

中资银行：谁比谁更绿 民间报告首度披露14 家中资上市银行绿色信贷现状

Other document
2010-03-26 00:00:00 | Southern weekend

Chinese Banking Industry Environmental Record (NGO analysis) - Executive Summary

NGO document
2010-03-24 00:00:00 | Green Watershed

China Sustainable Finance Newsletter #6

NGO document
2009-11-17 00:00:00 | Friends of the Earth US

新的供资方与环境 - New Financiers and the Environment

NGO document
2008-05-14 00:00:00 | International Rivers

New Financiers and the Environment

NGO document
2008-05-14 00:00:00 | International Rivers
Accountability
Grievances

China Everbright Bank does not operate a complaints or grievances channel for individuals or communities that might have been affected by its finance.

This page evaluates China Everbright Bank's responses to instances of alleged human rights violations linked to its finance, raised by civil society organisations. It is not intended to be exhaustive, but covers selected impacts raised by BankTrack and other civil society partners since 2016. For the full scoring methodology, see here. For more information about BankTrack's evaluation of bank responses to human rights impacts, see the 2021 report "Actions speak louder: assessing bank responses to human rights violations".

Impacts reviewed
Responded?
Total score
Response
Action
Monitoring

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Banks and Climate

Banks and Climate

The 2024 Banking on Climate Chaos report showed that China Everbright Group provided US$ 63.393 Billion in financing to the fossil fuel industry between 2016 and 2023. In 2023 only, China Everbright Group provided US$ 5.702 Billion for oil, gas and coal companies expanding fossil fuels. Find further details on China Everbright Group fossil fuel portfolio and how it compares to other large banks globally on Fossil Banks No Thanks and in the Banking on Climate Chaos report.

Fossil fuel finance data China Everbright Bank

Banking on Climate Chaos fossil fuel finance data

Partner organisation Reclaim Finance tracks the coal, oil and gas policies of financial institutions, including banks, in their Coal Policy Tool (CPT) and the Oil and Gas Policy Tracker (OGPT). BankTrack works closely with Reclaim Finance and endorses their policy assessments. Find further details on their assessment of China Everbright Bank’s fossil fuel policy below.

Assessment of China Everbright Bank coal policy in the Coal Policy Tool

Assessment of China Everbright Bank oil and gas policy in the Oil and Gas Policy Tracker
Banks and Nature

Banks and Nature

China Everbright Bank’s policies for forest-risk sectors (beef, soy, palm oil, pulp and paper, rubber and timber) have been assessed by the Forests & Finance coalition, achieving an overall score of 0.5 out of 10 and ranking it as a laggard. China Everbright Bank achieved a score of 0 out of 10 specifically for its policies related to the beef sector and 0.5 out of 10 for its policies related to the palm oil sector. In addition, BankTrack and the Environmental Paper Network have assessed China Everbright Bank’s policies related to the pulp and paper sector.

Between 2016 and 2022, China Everbright Bank provided USD 409 million in credit to companies operating in these forest-risk sectors and held investments amounting to USD 1 million as of 2022. For more information, see the links below. 

Forests & Finance

Banks and beef

Banks and palm oil

Banks and pulp & paper

Forest & Finance Policy Assessment 2022: Overall scores

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
China Everbright Bank
2022-09-21
CHN
0.5
Laggard 0.5
Explanation

A bank can obtain a total of 10 points for the quality of its policies. The total score is based on their scores per sector, weighted against their financing and investment for each sector. For further details on this see here. Based on their overall score, banks are then classified as Laggards, Followers, Front runners or Leaders, as follows:

Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 1 points
1 - 4 points
4 - 7 points
7 - 10 points
For more details see this page.

Forest & Finance Policy Assessment 2022: Beef

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
China Everbright Bank
2022-09-21
CHN
0
Laggard 0
Explanation

A bank can obtain a total of 10 points for the quality of its beef policy. The total score is based on their scores per sector, weighted against their financing and investment for each sector. For further details on this see here. Based on their overall score, banks are then classified as Laggards, Followers, Front runners or Leaders, as follows:

Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 1 points
1 - 4 points
4 - 7 points
7 - 10 points
For more details see this page.

Forest & Finance Policy Assessment 2022: Palm Oil

BankLast update
Country
Score
Ranking
Details
China Everbright Bank
2022-09-21
CHN
0.5
Laggard 0.5
Explanation

A bank can obtain a total of 10 points for the quality of its palm oil policy. The total score is based on their scores per sector, weighted against their financing and investment for each sector. For further details on this see here. Based on their overall score, banks are then classified as Laggards, Followers, Front runners or Leaders, as follows:

Laggard
Follower
Front runner
Leader
0 - 1 points
1 - 4 points
4 - 7 points
7 - 10 points
For more details see this page.
Banks and Steel

Banks and Steel

According to a report by Reclaim Finance, between 2016 and June 2023, China Everbright Group provided $8.2 billion in finance to the fossil-steel industry, making it the 11th largest financier worldwide. Find further details on China Everbright Group's steel financing and how it compares to other large banks globally in the report. 

Steeling our future: The banks propping up coal-based steel