How green are Iceland's banks?
Before choosing where to bank, Circa examined the environmental credentials of Arion Bank, Landsbankinn and Íslandsbanki — turning an everyday financial choice into a public conversation about climate responsibility.
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Where you keep your money is a climate decision — even if it rarely feels like one. Circa set out to make that link visible.
Before deciding where to bank ourselves, we examined the environmental credentials of Iceland’s three main banks — Arion Bank, Landsbankinn and Íslandsbanki — and shared what we found openly, turning a private, everyday choice into a public conversation about transparency and climate responsibility.
This early initiative reflects a principle that runs through all of Circa’s work: sustainability claims should be questioned, compared, and made useful to ordinary people.
What we did
- Compared the environmental credentials of Iceland’s three main banks
- Reframed an everyday financial choice as a matter of climate responsibility
- Shared the findings openly to spark public discussion
- Put into practice our commitment to scrutinising green claims