BMO’s Climate Ambition

Learn how we strive to be our clients’ lead partner in the transition to a net-zero world.

Our Four Pillars

Commitment

We are committed to building a sustainable future and advancing a path toward a net-zero world. These efforts include maintaining carbon neutrality, adopting 100% renewable electricity purchases within our own operations, targeting net-zero financed emissions in our lending portfolio by 2050, and enhancing our approach to transparency in emissions measurement.

Capabilities

We provide insights and analysis focused on the intersection of climate change and finance, allowing us to be premier advisors and partners to our clients in the unfolding panorama of climate risks and opportunities. As thought leaders, we leverage sophisticated analytical capabilities, data-driven research and expertise to help our business, clients and partners to adjust and flourish in the evolving climate landscape.

Client Partnership

We are committed to helping our clients adapt to climate change and support their transition to a net-zero world. To support the bank and our clients’ own climate ambitions, we offer a tailored suite of products and services, including green advisory, investment, lending products and decarbonization roadmaps.

Convening for Climate Action

We drive insight and bring industry, government, investors and academia together to catalyze the climate conversation, collaborate on solutions, and accelerate a socially and economically just net-zero transition. We equip bank employees with the knowledge to encourage meaningful climate-informed business decisions, develop solutions for climate-sensitive sectors in North America, and explore the synergies between climate justice and social goals.

Recognition

Dow Jones Sustainability Indices: BMO is included in the DJSI Index – North America

 

World Benchmarking Alliance: BMO ranked top financial institution for contributing to a just and sustainable economy

 

Corporate Knights: 2023 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World

 

Ethisphere: BMO named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies

Climate Action Across BMO

Enterprise Risk and Portfolio Management

Enterprise Risk and Portfolio Management (ERPM) works to more fully integrate Environmental and Social (E&S) risk considerations, including climate risk, into and across our existing Enterprise-wide Risk Management Framework, and to increase our...

Equity Research

As part of the department’s initiative to incorporate ESG analysis into its fundamental research offering, BMO Equity Research publishes thematic notes on climate change-driven risks and opportunities and increasingly tracks the performance of c...

Global Asset Management (GAM)

As part of BMO GAM’s firm-wide commitment to Climate Action, BMO GAM’s Responsible Investment team supports the integration of climate factors into the investment process, develops investor-focused thought leadership on climate-related topics, a...

Operating Groups

Our three operating groups (Personal and Commercial Banking, BMO Wealth Management and BMO Capital Markets) lead strategies to capture business growth opportunities, including those associated with climate finance. Each operating group organizes...

Sustainability Office

The Sustainability Office oversees sustainability strategy and leads bank-wide initiatives on environmental and social risk, ESG-focused investor relations, sustainability-related disclosure, operational sustainability, and the bank’s own approa...

Sustainable Finance

The team of experts in Sustainable Finance is partnering with clients in the transition to a net-zero future by bringing a sustainability lens to capital markets, including lending, bond underwriting, public offerings, M&A, advisory services and...

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Financed Emissions

At BMO, we track and report our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and carbon-related assets using the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. In 2021, we began to quantify and disclose financed emissions for certain sectors in accordance with the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials Standard. Our operational emissions and financed emissions can be found in our most recent climate report.