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title: "Helaba expands its sustain­ability criteria to include lending activities"
url: https://www.helaba.com/en/newsroom/news/helaba-expands-its-sustainability-criteria-include-lending-activities
type: dd_news
language: en
updated: 2026-10-14
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# Helaba expands its sustain­ability criteria to include lending activities

**Helaba has developed sustainability criteria for its lending business in order to further consolidate its corporate responsibility for the climate, the environment and society.**

Diese Nachhaltigkeitskriterien hat die Bank in ihren verbindlichen Risikostrategien verankert, um Verlässlichkeit und Transparenz zu sichern. Darin schließt die Helaba die Finanzierung von Vorhaben aus, die schwere Umwelt- oder schwere soziale Schäden hervorrufen. Diese übergeordneten Grundsätze werden durch sektorspezifische Leitlinien ergänzt. Sie gelten für Sektoren mit erhöhtem Risiko, beispielsweise für Kraftwerke, Bergbau, Öl- und Gasförderung sowie den Rüstungssektor.

By expanding our risk strategies to cover specific sustainability criteria, we are refining our tried-and-tested risk policy while meeting our social responsibility as a credit institution.

The bank is gradually reducing its exposure in the fields of coal-fired power stations and power plant coal. At the same time, it is supporting the energy transition by targeting its lending activities at energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly technologies and renewable energy.

The overriding and group-wide requirements for lending activities are based on the ten principles of the UN Global Compact. The sustainability criteria and sector-specific guidelines have been published on Helaba’s Sustainability Portal.