40% of the world’s ocean are heavily affected by human activities, including pollution, depleted fisheries, and loss of coastal habitats.”
As part of its environmental commitments, BNP Paribas is partnering with other institutions to develop a sustainable maritime sector while supporting scientific research on climate change.
Within this context, the BNP Paribas Swiss Foundation is supporting financially two of the research projects carried out by the Swiss Polar Institute: a consortium of Swiss universities created in 2015 and dedicated to the study of the Poles and other extreme environments. Its objective is to understand the causes and impacts of global warming in order to anticipate its consequences.
As such, the Institute set up an international scientific expedition to do a complete tour of the Antarctic continent that brings together 55 researchers from 30 different countries. This expedition is known as the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition, and you can now discover a few images of its activities in video.
As part of its environmental commitments, BNP Paribas promotes financial innovation to help the energy transition and reinforces its management of risks related to this transition.
We have integrated to our CSR strategy the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. The BNP Paribas Group aims to help building a more sustainable world through actions with positive impact.
BNP Paribas has committed to becoming carbon neutral by the end of the year 2017 in terms of CO2 emissions arising from its own operations. How? Well you can discover in the following video everything about the three complementary levers used by the Group to achieve its goals.
Each year one third of all food produced ends up rotting in the bins of consumers and retailers, or spoiling due to poor transportation and harvesting practices.”
Responsible consumption means taking the environment into account when designing products and recycling them.
We have integrated to our CSR strategy the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. The BNP Paribas Group aims to help building a more sustainable world through actions with positive impact.
BNP Paribas is playing its part, and in particular, the Group participated since 2014 to the financing of green bond issues amounting to more than €1.8 billion in the sector of waste management and recycling sector. Here in Switzerland, BNP Paribas issued in 2017 a green bond on behalf of Helvetia Environment, the Swiss leader in waste management. It was the first transaction of its kind conducted by a private company in Switzerland. Discover this success story in video!
BNP Paribas helps build sustainable cities through actions such as Real Estate programmes and the promotion of soft mobility.
We have integrated to our CSR strategy the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. The BNP Paribas Group aims to help building a more sustainable world through actions with positive impact.
By 2030, almost 60% of the world’s population will live in urban areas.”
How do we promote soft mobility?
Arval – a subsidiary of BNP Paribas Group specialized in fleet management – signed in 2018 a new partnership with the Swiss Federal Railways called SBB Green Class. This new offer combines different forms of mobility services in a single package. It encourages the use of public transports and electric vehicles: here is a new step towards sustainability and energy transition. Discover SBB Green Class in the following video.
Reducing inequality is a key to harmonious economic development. It needs to occur both within and among countries.
At BNP Paribas, we have made the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals part of our corporate objectives, because we consider that large companies must contribute to a more equitable and ecological world.
On average – and taking into account population size – income inequality increased by 11% in developing countries between 1990 and 2010.”
What kind of actions is BNP Paribas taking?
Since 2004, the BNP Paribas Swiss Foundation has been supporting solidarity projects as part of its Help2Help programme dedicated to the Bank’s employees in Switzerland who volunteer with national or international associations active in the social field. So far, the BNP Paribas Swiss Foundation has supported over 150 projects with subsidies worth up to CHF 6’000. Let’s hear the testimony of Rémi, one of the bank’s employees who benefited from some financial aid to carry out a project in Morocco.
BNP Paribas has established itself as the leading bank for start-ups and innovative companies, offering the market’s most comprehensive banking and financial mechanism to promote innovation.
As we have integrated the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals to our CSR strategy, we are convinced that quality infrastructure is positively related to the achievement of social, economic and political goals.
But where does BNP Paribas in Switzerland stand on innovation?
The answer is made of two words: WAI BOOST.
WAI stands for We Are Innovation. BOOST for boosting innovation.
In 2017, BNP Paribas launched WAI BOOST in Switzerland, an accelerator connecting corporates and promising start-ups to foster co-innovation. The season one of the program featured Dufry, a Switzerland-based global travel retailer seeking to develop innovative solutions to support its activities. Here’s a wrap up of the first season.
From start-ups to SMEs to multinationals companies, BNP Paribas supports businesses of all types. By financing and investing ethically, the Bank plays a role in the economic development of society as a whole and supports jobs creation.
At BNP Paribas, we have made the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals part of our corporate objectives, because we consider that large companies must contribute to a more equitable and ecological world.
Among all the different actions carried out by BNP Paribas to support a positive and a sustainable economic growth, the Group had decided in particular to create and develop a strategy to support Social Business.
470 million jobs are needed globally for new entrants to the labour market between 2016 and 2030.”
What are we referring to when we talk about Social Business?
A Social Business is a company that has social impact or the solving of social or environmental challenge as a priority. But what are BNP Paribas’ concrete initiatives in this matter? Claudia Belli, Head of Social Entrepreneurship and Microfinance at BNP Paribas, gives you further information in the following video.
In pledging to double its financing of renewable energies to €15 billion by 2020, BNP Paribas is asserting itself as a player that is committed to fighting climate change.
Affordable and clean energy. This is the seventh goals among the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals which we integrated to our corporate objectives.
Energy access is indeed a crucial challenge at world level: one fifth of the world population still does not have access to electricity”
Fighting climate change through energy transition?
The Group has committed to investing €100 million by 2020 in innovative start-ups in the energy transition. At the end of 2017, €20 million had already been invested. BNP Paribas is also partnering with Mosaic, a California-based solar company providing software and financing solutions to home owners through solar contractors, making clean energy accessible to all individuals. To know more about our initiatives linked to energy transition, watch this short video.
To guarantee access to water and sanitation, and to ensure sustainable management of water resources, BNP Paribas has developed specific financing and investment products.
At BNP Paribas, we have made the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals part of our corporate objectives, because we consider that large companies must contribute to a more equitable and ecological world.
Worldwide, over 660 million people don’t have access to drinking water resources.”
How concretely BNP Paribas in Switzerland is supporting access to water and sanitation?
BNP Paribas in Switzerland and the NGO Raleigh International signed in 2016 a partnership to help financing projects and enlist employees. The Bank finances projects to repair, or build some new water systems and sanitation infrastructures in regions of Nepal the most affected by 2015 earthquakes, and raise awareness about good hygiene behaviors and sanitation practices. Discover more by watching the following short video.
BNP Paribas shows its commitment to gender equality by developing proactive policies on professional equality for its employees and fostering women’s entrepreneurship.
About two thirds of countries in the developing regions have achieved gender parity in primary education.”
How does BNP Paribas act in favor of gender equality?
Since 2015 the Group is actively involved in HeForShe solidarity campaign launched by UN Women. In 2018, Jean-Laurent Bonnafé, CEO of BNP Paribas Group, reaffirmed his commitment as a HeForShe Thematic Champion. He committed to increase diversity in certain business lines of the bank that have been traditionally composed of mostly women or men.