Regulating the Impacts of International Project Financing: The Equator Principles Resulting the Impacts of International Project Financing

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I would first like to join my co-panelists and thank Edith Brown Weiss for her thoughtful introduction to this panel, and also thank Nienke Grossman for putting this panel together.The initiative my talk focuses on is the Equator Principles (EPs), which are a global banking initiative first promulgated in 2003, then revised in 2006, and under revision again now in 2013.My co-author John Conley and I have conducted approximately 30 interviews with bankers, government officials, scientists, and people working for NGOs about the Equator Principles, as part of a larger qualitative research project investigating corporate social responsibility.'In this talk I will briefly describe the Equator Principles; discuss the role of banks as global sustainability regulators by virtue of the EPs; talk about some evidence that participating in the EPs is leading to broader changes in some parts of Equator banks; and then develop some of the implications and caveats to which this study gives rise.Two t

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