“Sustainability and responsibility are strategic assets: integrating these key factors strengthens resilience, innovation and competitiveness.”
“Our clients expect us to support them consistently and effectively. This is especially true in sustainable finance, at a time when even climate change is being called into question. Embracing a sustainability strategy requires a clear short-, medium- and long-term vision, and involves seizing opportunities today that will secure business over the coming years and into the next decade. As part of its GTS strategic plan, BNP Paribas set itself the goal of supporting its clients’ low-carbon transition with up to €200 billion in financing from 2022 to the end of 2025. The target was exceeded by a wide margin, with €252 billion devoted to these efforts as of the end of 2025.
EXPERTISE FOR A CHANGING WORLD
In 2025, wind and solar power overtook fossil fuels in Europe for the first time.(1) BNP Paribas is at the forefront of this energy transition, where energy independence is closely linked to European sovereignty. Our financing devoted to low-carbon energy has increased fivefold in ten years, demonstrating the foresight of both the Group and its clients. Today low-carbon energy represents over 80% of our credit exposure to energy production: with a planned capacity of 1.5 GW, the Baltica 2 offshore wind farm will soon be the largest offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea, while in the United Kingdom, the Sizewell C nuclear power plant project will supply electricity to around six million households.
These projects demonstrate that sustainability and responsibility are truly strategic assets: integrating these key factors strengthens resilience, innovation and competitiveness. Our role is to combine advisory expertise with financial know-how to deliver the positive impact and sustainable value creation our clients need, far beyond the energy transition alone.
A COLLECTIVE COMMITMENT IN ACTION
Our operating divisions have therefore developed cutting-edge, diversified and complementary areas of expertise, too extensive to list here. One example is responsible investment at Investment & Protection Services, with the closing of the BNP Paribas Solar Impulse Venture fund in early 2025. Its €172 million will support innovative transition-focused companies in their growth. Another example, at Commercial, Personal Banking & Services, is Nickel, our payment account designed to promote financial inclusion, which continues to expand across Europe, with over 4.9 million accounts opened as of the end of 2025. The Corporate & Institutional Banking teams continue to support our clients, placing us, for the third consecutive year, as the global leader in terms of sustainable loans and bonds at the end of 2025, according to Dealogic.
The year was also marked by the acceleration of our commitments to the Ocean and blue finance, with the issuance of a number of blue bonds, notably in Latin America. In under six months, the Group also issued three blue private placements for a total amount of €75 million in 2025. More than an environmental and societal challenge, the protection of biodiversity must also be seen as a catalyst for sustainable growth. These notions are mutually reinforcing; they should not be viewed as mutually exclusive, especially when current events remind us daily of the urgent need to act, adapt and reinvent ourselves together.“