The Green Banknote – Sustainability at Every Level

Giesecke+ Devrient launched its Green Banknote Initiative earlier this year. The aim is to involve the currency community in working together to ensure that banknotes based on natural fibres are making cash a greener payment system by applying the principles of the circular economy, decreasing emissions in the complete cash cycle and driving resource efficiency across global value chains and operations.

At the Global Currency Forum, it followed this up with the presentation of the Green Banknote - a physical token of this initiative printed on Hybrid ADDvance® that, it says, has a core with a green and minimal use of plastic, without comprising durability or security.

So while the Green Banknote has the same look and feel, and security features, of a conventional banknote, the use of ecological, resource-saving materials and production processes serve as blueprint for what can be achieved in sustainability.