UN Environment and BNP Paribas have today signed a milestone agreement at the One Planet Summit to establish Sustainable Finance Facilities, collaborative partnerships aimed at raising development capital to drive sustainable economic growth in emerging countries.

The BNP Paribas Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, under the patronage of the President of the French Republic launch One Planet Fellowship, a programme leveraging French, African and European expertise to support research on climate adaptation in Africa

The voices calling for profound change in the nature of the world’s economy are growing. Governments and companies, called upon by citizens to hasten the emergence of a low-carbon economy, have tried for years to respond to these calls, but the result to date is limited.

BNP Paribas today hosts its second Sustainable Future Forum in Singapore, featuring a world-class line up of speakers to explore the opportunities and challenges in embedding sustainability as a business driver.

BNP Paribas takes further measures to accelerate its support of the energy transition The BNP Paribas Group will no longer do business with companies whose principal business activity is the exploration, production, distribution, marketing or trading of oil and gas…

Between 2017 and 2019, the BNP Paribas Foundation will put an additional €6 million into its Climate Initiative programme to support eight international research projects. These projects focus on a diverse range of topics including the collection of new data on past climates in Antarctica and tropical areas, the expansion of the dry subtropics in South America, an assessment of the impact of climate change on the coral reefs and the carbon sequestration potential of agricultural soils in Africa.

Loans with an environmental focus  Like all other bond types, green bonds are financial loans, issued on the market by a company, organization or government. They differ from other bonds because they only finance environmental projects: infrastructure projects that contribute…

BNP Paribas today announced it has priced its inaugural EUR 500 million Green Bond. The transaction attracted strong demand from investors allowing a pricing inside of BNP Paribas ordinary senior debt curve. BNP Paribas has a long standing commitment to…

Hong Kong and Singapore – 7 October 2016 – BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking today announced it has been licenced for the Solactive Sustainable Development Goals World Index – a new equity index which enables investors to gain exposure to companies which have been identified as making a significant contribution to the advancement of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The bank plans to issue structured products tied to the indices later this year.

As part of its policy of promoting entrepreneurship among women, BNP Paribas has agreed to sponsor the Women Initiative Foundation over the next three years. Created earlier this year, the purpose of the Foundation is to boost the role of women…