CB BureauYes Bank has completed the ISO 14001 certification for 79 of its locations including all major branches and three corporate offices. In 2014, it became the first bank in India to qualify for ISO 14001:2004 certification, and with this recognition, remains the only bank in India to be certified under the world’s leading environmental management system. This is expected to strengthen and streamline the bank’s measurement and reporting framework on its carbon footprint, a step forward towards mitigating climate change.
The certification has been awarded by Bureau Veritas, a global leader in conformity assessment and certification services. Bureau Veritas confirmed that Yes Bank has firmly embedded environmental considerations in all its operations to efficiently manage its environmental and operational risks.
‘This is an endorsement of our sustainability leadership and underlines our commitment to weave sustainability principles into our core business strategy and processes,’ Rana Kapoor, managing director and CEO, Yes Bank, has stated in a media release.
The statement from Namita Vikas, senior president and chief sustainability officer at Yes Bank, reads, ‘The continual improvement that this certification brings to our processes and procedures not only helps us achieve and monitor our targets, but is also perfectly aligned with our stated objective of using the triple bottom-line approach as a measure of our performance. This recognition will give us encouragement to further scale up our efforts towards getting all our locations ISO 14001-certified.’