ING is the first major Dutch financial institution to be 100% carbon neutral. This means that by lowering our energy consumption, using green energy, investing in renewable energy projects and offsetting our carbon consumption, we have reduced our net CO₂ emissions to zero.

We have also drawn up sector-specific policies in order to prevent or limit our indirect impact on the environment. Our financing activities for example may involve us indirectly in operations which can be harmful to the environment. This mainly applies to financing of the oil, gas, mining, forestry, paper and agricultural sectors.

Climate change, deforestation and the protection of endangered species also become more and more important to our employees. As a response, we developed the ING Orange goes Green programme which invites our staff to make a personal contribution to a cleaner environment.