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Climate and Sustainable Funding and Financing

As part of supporting our customers’ transition to net zero, we have a target to provide £100 billion climate and sustainable funding and financing (CSFF) between July 2021 and the end of 2025.

NatWest Group uses its Climate and Sustainable Finance Inclusion Criteria (CSFFI criteria) (PDF 284KB)(1) to determine the assets, activities and companies that are eligible to be included within its climate and sustainable funding and financing targets. 

Our Climate and Sustainable Funding and Financing target

Since the £100 billion target came into effect in July 2021 NatWest Group has provided £61.9 billion(*) of climate and sustainable funding and financing (£29.3 billion in 2023(*))(2).

This consisted of:

  • £52.6 billion (£25.4 billion in 2023) in Commercial & Institutional, including:
    • NatWest Markets £30.3 billion (£14.8 billion in 2023), and
    • RBS International £4.6 billion (£2.3 billion in 2023)
  • £8.8 billion in Retail Banking (£3.7 billion in 2023)
  • £0.5 billion in Private Banking (£0.2 billion in 2023)

As part of our £100 billion target, we are also aiming to provide at least £10 billion of lending for EPC A and B residential properties between 1 January 2023 and the end of 2025.

Current and previous CSFFI criteria can be found in the Downloads page under 'Policies - sector ESE, procurement, and more'.   

For full details, please see our 2023 Climate-related Disclosures Report (PDF 10MB)

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