Published 05-12-22
Issued by Vancity
Vancity’s responses to the challenges of climate change, racism and the COVID-19 pandemic are outlined in Change-makers, Vancity’s 2021 annual report.
In another year of economic uncertainty and recovery, Vancity was able to apply its values-based banking model for the benefit of members, employees, and communities. This is not new for Vancity – it has been doing this for over 75 years. Vancity’s responses to the challenges of climate change, racism and the COVID-19 pandemic are outlined in Change-makers, Vancity’s 2021 annual report, which can be viewed at vancity.com/AnnualReport.
Action on the climate crisis is a key theme of the Vancity 2021 annual report. It includes Vancity’s second analysis of the financed greenhouse gas emissions on Vancity’s loans and investments using the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) methodology.
Stories illustrate how Vancity creates value by providing basic financial services to people who are often excluded from conventional banking, by supporting training on zero-energy building techniques for new construction and retrofits, and by helping to create the circular economy by turning waste into a resource rather than a liability.
2021 highlights in the report include Vancity’s:
Vancity’s values-based banking model is also aligned with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. The report was prepared in accordance with the International Integrated Reporting Framework and the Global Reporting Initiative Sustainability Reporting Standards. Its adherence to the AA1000 principles and key data in the report was externally assured. The report also includes Vancity’s approach to managing climate risks and opportunities in alignment to the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and its second public reporting on how it is living up to its commitments as a signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Banking.
About Vancity
Vancity is a values-based financial co-operative serving the needs of its more than 550,000 member-owners and their communities, with offices and 54 branches located in Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley, Victoria, Squamish, and Alert Bay, within the unceded territories of the Coast Salish and Kwakwaka’wakw people. With $33.2 billion in assets plus assets under administration, Vancity is Canada’s largest community credit union. Vancity uses its assets to help improve the financial wellbeing of its members while at the same time helping to develop healthy communities that are socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable.
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