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While significant work remains to be done, we are committed to our role as responsible stewards of our natural resources. We will continue to do our part to protect the environment through conservation and sustainable practices throughout our business and operations, explore ways to increase our impact in these areas, and more.
Sustainable Product and Services Innovation
On a global scale, MUFG serves businesses contributing to the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change— including renewable energy, improving energy efficiency, green buildings, and sustainable agriculture—through arranging sustainability-linked loans, project finance for renewable energy, and underwriting and distribution of green bonds. We are proud to be the first Japanese bank accredited by the UN Green Climate Fund, advising our first deal in Chile in 2019. In 2019 alone, we received the following rankings:
• Renewableenergyprojectfinance:MUFGgloballead arranger #2 2019 (Bloomberg New Energy Finance)
• Greenbonds:MUFGglobalcorporate#72019(Dealogic)
• Socialbonds:MUFGgloballeadmanagerofYear2019 (Environmental Finance)
• Sustainability-linkedloans:MUFGglobal#82019 (Refinitiv)
In the first half of 2020, Dealogic ranked us as a global bookrunner for green and social bonds, about $1 billion
in total. Additionally, Bloomberg New Energy Finance has once again ranked us as a leader in clean energy financing for the first quarter of 2020.
In the Americas, we are proud to have completed our five-year environmental finance goal one year early, contributing $28.1 billion to projects that promote environmental sustainability from 2016 to 2019. We are excited to help finance highly energy-efficient projects that not only decrease electric bills and dependency on the grid but also decrease global warming. Multiple business lines throughout the bank contributed toward achieving this goal.
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