Equator Principles (EP4, 2020)
What is Equator Principles (EP4, 2020)?
The Equator Principles (EP4, July 2020) are a voluntary risk-management framework adopted by ~100 Equator Principles Financial Institutions (EPFIs) for determining, assessing and managing environmental and social risk in project finance. EP4 applies to Project Finance Advisory Services, Project Finance (capital costs >= USD 10 million), Project-Related Corporate Loans and Bridge Loans. It comprises 10 controls organised across 4 domains, and applies in International (Equator Principles Association).
How Equator Principles (EP4, 2020) maps to other frameworks
All 10 controls, each one mapped to the equivalent requirement in other standards, with the evidence that carries across and the mappings that were judged and rejected shown alongside. No account needed to look.
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