YES Bank, India’s fifth largest private bank, has announced it would mobilize $5 billion towards climate finance by 2020 to help India meet its target of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). The bank made the declaration on the sidelines of the Conference of Parties (COP) 21 climate summit underway in Paris. The bank’s $5 billion mobilisation target from 2015 to 2020 will be done through lending, investing and raising capital towards mitigation, adaptation and resilience.

To help achieve India’s target of INDCs, the bank has also set a number of its own targets for 2020: funding of 5,000 Mw of clean energy, gradually increase percentage of renewable energy in the power portfolio, contribute towards creating a carbon sink by planting two million trees, touch 100 million lives through its safe and clean drinking water program and offset carbon emissions of the bank’s operations.

Yes Bank claims leadership in the field with an exposure of 1,065 Mw of renewable energy projects including solar, wind and biomass as of March 2015. Recently, it also signed a MoU with The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) to collaborate on bond and equity issuance, with focus on developing green infrastructure.

Yes Bank has become the third Indian bank to have its shares to be listed on American stock exchanges. The only two other Indian banks ICICI and HDFC Bank.

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