{"id":10283,"date":"2020-07-09T09:11:58","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T06:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=10283"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:09","slug":"standard-bank-committed-to-sustainability-says-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/07\/09\/standard-bank-committed-to-sustainability-says-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Standard Bank Committed to Sustainability, Says CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The CEO of Standard Bank Group, Sim Tshabalala, affirmed the group\u2019s commitment to sustainable human development, to a just transition away from carbon-intensive economic activity, and to environmental sustainability.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tshabalala told investors at the bank\u2019s recent annual general meeting (AGM) held virtually that the bank&nbsp;is \u201cfirmly and irrevocably committed to addressing the climate emergency we all face.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are \u2013 and remain \u2013 a purpose-driven organisation, committed to Africa\u2019s long-term wellbeing and to generating social, economic and environmental value \u2013 an outcome that we regard as just as important as our financial results,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following votes held at its 2020 AGM, Standard Bank Group welcomed the reappointment of all non-executive directors submitted for re-election, including the five non-executive directors that were alleged to be climate change conflicted by some shareholders. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esi-africa.com\/industry-sectors\/finance-and-policy\/standard-bank-committed-to-sustainability-says-ceo\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO of Standard Bank Group, Sim Tshabalala, affirmed the group\u2019s commitment to sustainable human development, to a just transition away from carbon-intensive economic activity, and to environmental sustainability. Tshabalala&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}