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- - PAGE 1 - Developing green banking activities at the Agricultural Promotion Bank (Laos) Duan LIU, PHONESAVANH ANISA (Business school of Hunan University, Changsha /Hunan Province, 410082) Abstract：Previous studies confirmed that green banking is an inevitable direction of the financial industry. So that this issue has been emerging as the most important issues with more and more attention of researchers and practitioners in the world. But in Laos, this issue is still new and has only a little research that require a lot of research to clarify the situation and mechanism development. These recent years, green banking activities that have been deployed more at the Agricultural Promotion Bank, Lao but with a small scale. The main aim of this research is to synthesis the literature on the green banking topic, clarify nearly all activities of APB in general as well as the green banking activities in particular. This research also proposed some solutions in terms of developing green banking activities in APB in the near future. Keywords: green banking, green credit, environment, Laos, sustainable development 1. Introduction In recent years, climate change, depletion of natural resources, and polluted environment have had certain impacts on the stability of human living environment. These are problems that have made almost countries in the world concerned, including Lao. In Lao, the National Strategy on Climate Change and updated scenarios for reacting to climate change have been implemented, emphasized the nexus between climate change and economic development. Sustainability, while acknowledging that climate change is a common challenge that requires the hands of the entire society including the Government, ministries, sectors, localities and the business community. Considering from the environmental aspect, our country’s current growth model is still mainly based on the use of many natural resources, affecting the environment and increasing the impacts of clim