Commitment to sustainability: QNB workshop to foster awareness and drive change – Gulf Times

Commitment to sustainability: QNB workshop to foster awareness and drive change – Gulf Times

The workshop focused on several key areas, including sustainable finance, QNB’s environmental and social risk management framework, as well as climate risk.

QNB Group has held an internal educational awareness workshop in celebration of International Banking Day.This initiative, driven by the Qatar Central Bank (QCB), gathered senior leaders from the QNB’s business functions and teams and aimed to reiterate and raise additional awareness and understanding of the topic of sustainability and its significance.The workshop focused on several key areas, including sustainable finance, QNB’s environmental and social risk management framework, as well as climate risk. These topics were chosen to equip the employees with the necessary knowledge and frameworks to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of sustainability in the banking sector.Based on QNB’s purpose, vision, and aspiration to be the leading bank in the Middle East and Africa and one of the leading banks in Southeast Asia, QNB has fully integrated the topic of ESG into the bank’s group-wide strategy.The topic of ESG is one of the three core pillars of the bank’s strategy and aims to embed sustainability into the overall business and operating model. Based on its achievements and overall ESG ratings, the bank today is recognized as a