2023 CSR report

CSR report

Our CSR report allows stakeholders to better understand our actions for a more sustainable and inclusive world. It outlines the key points of our CSR strategy and our aims.

CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSITION

• Supporting our clients’ plans
• Helping them with their ESG approaches
• Financing their environmental transitions
• Considering transition risk
• Providing a framework for our financing and investments

SUSTAINABLE HOUSING AND TRANSPORT

• Financing sustainable housing
• Facilitating low-carbon mobility
• Understanding climate risks to our mortgaged properties
• Estimating our carbon footprint
• Helping to reduce our carbon footprint

RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENTS

• Making responsible investment offers in-branch
• Prioritising responsible investments in-branch
• Supporting Private Banking clients

SOCIAL INCLUSION

• Supporting entrepreneurship
• Encouraging financial and social inclusion
• Contributing to civil society
• Stand Speak Rise Up! conference
• Taking care of employees’ health and wellbeing
• Promoting diversity

RESPONSIBLE GOVERNANCE

• Making sustainable finance central to our organisation
• Investing in staff training
• Being lauded by our stakeholders

"As the European Union’s leading bank, we have a responsibility to help our clients make the transition towards a more sustainable and inclusive economy. We are determined and committed at every level to combat climate change by stepping up our efforts in order to limit global warming to 1.5 °C by 2050.

Our strategy to achieve this is based on aligning our loan portfolio with a net-zero trajectory, limiting the climate risk of our activities and supporting our clients in their transition to a low-carbon economy.

Working towards a more sustainable economy is no longer optional, but an urgent imperative"

Béatrice Belorgey
Chair of the Executive Committee of BGL BNP Paribas and Head of the BNP Paribas Group entities in Luxembourg