ESG Coverage | IFC Performance Standards

IFC Performance Standards

International Finance Corporation

The Performance Standards are directed towards IFC clients, providing guidance on how to identify risks and impacts, and are designed to help avoid, mitigate, and manage risks and impacts as a way of doing business in a sustainable way, including stakeholder engagement and disclosure obligations of the client in relation to project-level activities. In the case of its direct investments (including project and corporate finance provided through financial intermediaries), IFC requires its clients to apply the Performance Standards to manage environmental and social risks and impacts so that development opportunities are enhanced.

The ESG Coverage of a standard or regulation outlines the high and mid-level ESG topics that a standard or regulation covers, and at the highest level of analysis, specific binary statements that can be used to determine exactly what the requirements are. These statements are cross-standard compatible, allowing you to compare the exact coverage areas of multiple standards or regulations.

This data has been compiled and is continually updated by analysts at TDi Sustainability, and is backed by decades of standards analysis expertise.

GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT
Management Systems
Risk and Impact Assessments and Management
BUSINESS ETHICS AND ACCOUNTABILITY
Stakeholder Engagement
RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS
Supply Chain Practices
LABOUR
Occupational Health and Safety
Labour Rights
Employment Terms and Conditions
COMMUNITY
Land Acquisition and Resettlement
Community Rights, Health, Relations and Development
HUMAN RIGHTS
Indigenous Peoples
Security Forces
ENVIRONMENT
Environmental Policy
Waste Management
Hazardous and Toxic Substances
Material Stewardship
Energy Efficiency
Water Stewardship
Climate Action and Emissions
Biodiversity
Land Management
CLOSURE AND RECLAMATION