In August, Itaú – along with the other two large private-sector banks Bradesco and Santander Brasil – established the Amazon Advisory Council, which has a 10-point plan on sustainability and is manned with credible academics and environmental experts.
The leading issue is preventing meat producers illegally deforesting swathes of land to raise cattle, but there are other aspects of the plan that make broad sense if the Amazon’s resources are to be used sustainably.
Unfortunately, the impetus for this belated action came from abroad.
I am outraged I have to use this argument
Candido Bracher, Itaú
Candido Bracher, chief executive of Itaú, admits to feelings “close to humiliation” that it took foreign investors and companies pushing for greater effort on sustainability for local banks to take action.
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