Environmental Risk Management and Corporate Lending

A Global Perspective

Phil Case

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 1999
• ISBN:
  9781845691912
• Topic: Commerce
• Subtopic: Finances d'entreprise

Environmental issues have never been so high on the agenda of governments and companies around the world. From being seen as a fringe discipline, environmental risk management has established its central importance for the future not only of the environment itself but also of the individual organisation. Until now, however, there has been no book devoted to the implications of environmental risk for banks and other financial institutions involved in corporate lending. Phil Case's timely book provides a much-needed blueprint for the management of environmental risk in this crucial area and should be essential reading for all those involved in corporate lending internationally.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Environmental Risk Management and Corporate Lending - a Global Perspective
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1. The environment and business - opportunity and threat
• Chapter 2. Developing an effective strategy for environmental risk management
• Chapter 3. The legal position
• Chapter 4. Direct risk
• Chapter 5. Indirect (credit) risk appraisal: evaluating environmental factors
• Chapter 6. Land as security
• Chapter 7. Environmental risks and project finance
• Chapter 8. Environmental risk management: the way ahead
• Appendix 1: High environmental risk activities: full Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code listings
• Appendix 2: International environmental risk briefing notes
• Appendix 3: specimen environmental questionnaire: general
• Appendix 4: specimen environmental questionnaire: bulk fuel storage
• Appendix 5: specimen environmental clausing in term loan facility letters
• Appendix 6: specimen environmental clausing in term loan facility letters for property investment company borrowers
• Appendix 7: specimen terms of reference: Phase I risk assessment
• Appendix 8: specimen letter to a customer re Pliase II study -terms of reference
• Appendix 9: specimen terms of reference- a 'second opinion' Reviewing exist ingenvironmental site investigation reports
• Appendix 10: Specimen letter to customer: need for site investigation reports
• Appendix 11: specimen letter to customer: need for 'second opinion' of existing environmental site investigation reports
• Appendix 12: Specimen letter to customer explaining use of site investigation reports
• Appendix 13: World Bank list of category ‘A’ projects where an EIA isrequired
• Appendix 14: Minimum terms of reference for an environmental impact assessment
• Appendix 15: Minimum terms of reference for a 'second opinion' on an environmental impact assessment report
• Index