Credit Suisse

InfluenceMap Score
for Sustainable Finance Policy Engagement
D+
Performance Band
56%
Organization Score
43%
Relationship Score

Sector:
Financials
Head​quarters:
Zurich, Switzerland
Official Web Site:
Wikipedia:

Sustainable Finance Lobbying Overview: Credit Suisse appears to have limited but broadly positive engagement on sustainable finance regulation.

Top-line Messaging on Sustainable Finance Policy: Credit Suisse has supported the role of finance in delivering the goals of the Paris Agreement, and has joined the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, which advocates for the alignment of lending and investment portfolios with net-​zero emissions by 2050. In a joint statement by the financial sector in 2022, it also advocated for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework to mandate the alignment of financial flows with biodiversity goals.

Positions on Sustainable Finance Policy: In a 2021 letter to the SEC, Credit Suisse strongly supported the need for regulated corporate ESG disclosure, including disclosure on Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. In its 2020-2021 CDP responses, Credit Suisse appears to have supported the revision of the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) and the EU Taxonomy, as well as the development of an Asian taxonomy. In its 2022 CDP response, Credit Suisse stated support with some exceptions to regional efforts in Asia-Pacific around taxonomies and climate risk management, as well as in Switzerland on climate-risk disclosures

Lobbying Transparency: Credit Suisse has only described some of the policies it is following and has not disclosed positions or engagement activities in detail. Credit Suisse lacks a clear disclosure of its indirect engagement beyond listing some of its trade associations.

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Strength of Relationship
STRONG
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
WEAK
 
60%
 
60%
 
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57%
 
41%
 
41%
 
54%
 
54%
 
48%
 
48%
 
15%
 
15%
 
49%
 
49%
 
53%
 
53%
 
37%
 
37%
 
58%
 
58%
 
44%
 
44%
 
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34%
 
46%
 
46%
 
60%
 
60%
 
47%
 
47%
 
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61%

How to Read our Relationship Score Map

In this section, we depict graphically the relationships the corporation has with trade associations, federations, advocacy groups and other third parties who may be acting on their behalf to influence climate change policy. Each of the columns above represents one relationship the corporation appears to have with such a third party. In these columns, the top, dark section represents the strength of the relationship the corporation has with the influencer. For example if a corporation's senior executive also held a key role in the trade association, we would deem this to be a strong relationship and it would be on the far left of the chart above, with the weaker ones to the right. Click on these grey shaded upper sections for details of these relationships. The middle section contains a link to the organization score details of the influencer concerned, so you can see the details of its climate change policy influence. Click on the middle sections for for details of the trade associations. The lower section contains the organization score of that influencer, the lower the more negatively it is influencing climate policy.