Initiatives for the agricultural sector
BNL signed a partnership with Consorzio Italiano Biogas to support agricultural companies operating in the field of bioenergy. By facilitating their access to credit, they are encouraged to develop biogas and biomethane production. As for BNP Paribas Polska, it launched an innovative tool, RegAgri Explorer, to facilitate effective implementation of regenerative agriculture practices that protect soil quality and viability.
Immeuble Le Millénaire à Paris, France.
3 levers for our energy sobriety plan
In line with the French State’s energy sobriety plan, aimed at reducing the country’s energy consumption by 10% by 2024, BNP Paribas has launched a voluntary energy-savings plan for its real estate portfolio around three levers:
- the continuous improvement of the energy efficiency of its buildings and branches;
- implementation of works and investment plans;
- consultations with each of the Group’s business lines, with a view to achieving energy savings.
Impact investing is gaining momentum
BNP Paribas is strongly committed to impact investments, which combine intentionality, additionality and measurable social or environmental impact, both on its own behalf and on behalf of third parties. As part of its proprietary investments, the Group supports impact companies, such as Printemps des Terres, a French company that helps farmers while restoring biodiversity, and SAS minimum, a start-up which has developed Le Pavé®, a solution for recycling and recovering plastic waste, with vocational integration jobs.The Group also invests on its own account and on behalf of third parties, via the BNP Paribas Solar Impulse Venture fund, in start-ups committed to the ecological transition. This fund made a first investment by contributing to raising US$15m for NatureMetrics, a young British start-up specialising in the measurement of biodiversity, based on DNA analysis.
This fund also contributed, alongside the solidarity employee savings fund BNP Paribas Social Business Impact, €10m to the new €15m raised by the French start-up Phenix, which intends to make zero food waste a standard across Europe.