ABSTRACT
The United Nations Environment Programme Financial Institutions Initiative 1998 Survey identified environmental policies and procedures covering corporate credit, project finance, investment banking and insurance. Ex–Im Bank operates within dominant US economy where Superfund legacy has resulted in greater awareness of environmental and social problems, and where there is perhaps greater luxury to turn down business on these grounds. Sustainable development (SD) provides significant challenge for international financial services sector, as the activities of this sector impact strongly on economic systems, and hence play part in both national and individual prosperity, and ultimately in determining the wellbeing of future generations. The Three Gorges Hydroelectric Power Scheme under construction on China's Yangtze River is expected to cost more than virtually any other single construction project in history. The Export–Import Bank of United States was founded in 1934, and established under its present law in 1945, to assist in the financing and facilitation of US exports.
