Supporting Carbon Emission Reduction, Bank Jatim Receives Award from Investortrust.id & BGK Foundation
Date: 29 may 2024Categories :
JAKARTA, May 29, 2024. PT Bank Pembangungan Daerah Jawa Timur (bankjatim) successfully won an award from Investortrust.id and Bumi Global Karbon (BGK) Foundation on Wednesday night (29/5) in the event of Transparency and Reduction of Best Corporate Emissions 2024. The award obtained was in terms of Transparency in the Calculation of Best Corporate Emissions 2024 Platinum Plus category. Located at the Arya Duta Hotel Jakarta, the award was presented by Investortrust.id CEO Primus Dorimulu and received by bankjatim Corporate Secretary Wioga Adhiarma Aji.
Wioga explained, bankjatim expressed its deepest gratitude to Investortrust.id and BGK Foundation for this award. “bankjatim always continues to support the government in an effort to achieve the target of reducing carbon emissions in order to preserve the environment,” he said.
In addition, continued Wioga, the company is also committed to supporting POJK no 51 of 2017 article 7 (1) concerning the implementation of sustainable finance for financial services institutions. The implementation is by making efficiency in activities that have the potential to produce carbon emissions. For example, increasing meeting activities through online, creating banking products that can be directly accessed through JConnect Mobile, supporting environmental sustainability programs through the distribution of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds, and so on.
“The expected output from all of this is to minimize carbon emissions and create a healthy environment, especially for the surrounding community. For information disclosure, BJTM also from year to year always consistently reports the results of the assessment of carbon emission output in the sustainability report (sustainbality report), “said Wioga.
He hopes that this award can motivate bankjatim to continue to make various efforts that can have a positive impact on society and the environment directly and sustainably. “And hopefully this good cooperation with Investortrust.id can continue so that we can continue to contribute positively to the country,” said Wioga.
Meanwhile, Primus Dorimulu said that companies that can reduce carbon emissions should be given appreciation because they have contributed to saving the earth because reducing emissions will have a positive impact on climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions while creating quality economic growth. “Hopefully, this activity can inspire companies that have not received awards to reduce emissions. Because, reducing carbon emissions is a shared responsibility, not only individuals but also part of the company,” he said.
For information, this award is given for the Best Corporate Transparency and Emission Reduction 2024 in an effort to manage and reduce carbon emissions sustainably. The award is divided into five groups. Namely groups of banking issuers, non-banking issuers, banking SOEs, non-banking SOEs, and companies not including issuers or SOEs. As for the calculation and reduction of emissions, it is obtained based on the data contained in the sustainable report published in 2023 and available on the official website of each company.
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