On April 25, 2025, the “Urban Wetland Beauty - 2025 Environmental & Financial Education Program,” jointly put together by Land Bank Taiwan and Wetlands Taiwan, gathered teachers and students from Tainan Guangfu Experimental Elementary School of Ecology to visit Yuanzhonggang Wetland Park to promote environmental education. In response to the wave of sustainable finance, the Bank is committed to promoting natural resource conservation. For the past three years, the Bank has joined hands with Wetlands Taiwan to organize environmental education programs, gathering elementary school teachers and students to explore wetland ecosystems, forming a deeper connection to natural conservation.
Yuanzhonggang Wetland Park is designated as an important wetland (local level) by the Ministry of the Interior. Its rich estuarine ecosystem not only nurtures hundreds of species of flora and fauna, such as Taiwan’s native mangrove plants, the land crab and mudskipper, but also serves as a habitat for protected bird species, such as the pheasant-tailed jacana, ring-necked pheasant and Chinese egret. The Park is currently managed by Wetlands Taiwan and has been certified as an “Environmental Education Facility” by the Ministry of Environment. During the event, the Bank not only provided environmental education and a handmade leather keychain experience to the students, but a financial literacy class was also arranged to build up financial literacy and fraud prevention knowledge. Through this fun approach, the students took home financial concepts that can be used in their daily lives.
In order expand the practice of the FSC Sustainable Financial Indicators, we have undertaken a role in green finance in recent years. We are committed to guiding and supporting the development of enterprises as well as their low-carbon transformation, forming a positive sustainable financial ecosystem. In 2024, the balance of green financing increased by 40% year-on-year. The total amount of the Bank's ESG-linked syndicated loans also doubled compared to the previous year. We will continue to expand ESG loans in green financing and marketing programs for construction, renewable energy power generation equipment, low-carbon transformation and smart upgrading, and financing for Taipower suppliers. At the same time, we will continue to promote sustainability performance-linked loans, integrating ESG indicators into credit terms to guide our partners in joining in green finance.
With our years of commitment to sustainability, we received the “Sustainable Finance Award” by JCIC and “Gold in ESG Report Category” and “Social Inclusion Leadership Award” by TCSA in 2024. Moreover, we have been recognized as a top performer in FSC’s “Assessment of the Implementation of Treating Customers Fairly Principles” by Financial Institutions for six consecutive years. By leveraging our influence in the financial sector and caring for society, we aim to achieve our sustainable development goals.
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