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Societal Challenges and Our Ambitions
Today’s societal challenges have the potential to undermine the ability of our clients, employees, shareholders, and communities where we operate to thrive and prosper. We want to do our part to help address these challenges and aim to engage others to contribute to addressing them.
Urgent Environmental Crisis
The emissions generated to support our lives and livelihoods are placing the planet on an unsustainable path.2
Rapidly Changing Workforce
Advanced technologies are helping create meaningful careers, but livelihoods are also being displaced and industries dislocated by the shift in in-demand skills.3
transition to a
net-zero economy
Our goal is to be the bank of choice for the transition to a low-carbon and resilient economy.
This means supporting our clients across sectors in the transition, while focusing first on the areas that we believe present the greatest opportunities and risks7.
Our goal is to help our employees and communities where we operate keep pace with the changing world of work to drive mobility, innovation and resilience.
This means providing our employees and communities where we operate with support to develop in-demand skills and pursue meaningful careers is important to sustain our culture of high performance and to help improve lives in these communities.
Our goal is to be known by our clients, communities and employees for providing fair and inclusive opportunities for prosperity.
This means looking for ways to turn ideas into action and helping our clients become more financially stable, improving the strength and resilience of our communities, and developing our employees’ career potential.
For more details, including scope and definitions, please refer to the RBC Blueprints.
Urgent Environmental Crisis
The emissions generated to support our lives and livelihoods are placing the planet on an unsustainable path.2
transition to a
net-zero economy
Our goal is to be the bank of choice for the transition to a low-carbon and resilient economy.
This means supporting our clients across sectors in the transition, while focusing first on the areas that we believe present the greatest opportunities and risks.
Rapidly Changing Workforce
Advanced technologies are helping create meaningful careers, but livelihoods are also being displaced and industries dislocated by the shift in in-demand skills.3
Our goal is to help our employees and communities where we operate keep pace with the changing world of work to drive mobility, innovation and resilience.
This means providing our employees and communities where we operate with support to develop in-demand skills and pursue meaningful careers is important to sustain our culture of high performance and to help improve lives in these communities.
Our goal is to be known by our clients, communities and employees for providing fair and inclusive opportunities for prosperity.
This means looking for ways to turn ideas into action and helping our clients become more financially stable, improving the strength and resilience of our communities, and developing our employees’ career potential.
For more details, including scope and definitions, please refer to the RBC Blueprints.
Opportunities Blueprint
Our Guiding Principles
Enable change through leadership and influence
Build trust through transparency
Advance human rights and reconciliation
Use data and technology for good
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