Sustainability
We believe that Lehman Brothers has a role to play in delivering environmental and social solutions. Our vision is to build partnerships and value for our clients through environmental and social opportunities, be one of the most responsible investment banks, and contribute to superior returns for our shareholders.
Lehman Brothers Sustainability Principles
- Transparency and accountability – We will report regularly on the implementation of these principles
- Operations – We will aim to minimize negative environmental and social impacts of our operations
- Employees – We will engage with employees on environmental and social issues impacting our operations and business and encourage the development of innovative solutions
- Assessing risk – We will assess the environmental and social risks posed by our operations and business. We will engage with clients on critical issues (such as climate change, biodiversity loss and water scarcity)
- Delivering opportunity – We will seek opportunities across our business that deliver commercial, environmental and social benefit
- Market-based solutions – We believe that market-based solutions can deliver commercially feasible environmental and social benefit. We will apply our knowledge and understanding of financial markets to develop and implement innovative environmental and social market-based solutions
- Investments – We will build our knowledge of how environmental and social issues impact business performance into advising clients, investing on clients' behalf and deploying our own capital
- Thought leadership – We will conduct research and analysis on key environmental and social issues and make the results publicly available. We will engage in public policy dialogues to contribute to the development of effective policies
- Governance – These principles are approved and owned by our Executive Committee. The Executive Committee will oversee and receive regular reports on implementation and performance