BPCE - 2019 Universal Registration Document

NON-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE REPORT

APPLYING CSR IN OUR ACTIVITIES

2.2.1

Engagement and dialog

Groupe BPCE has made national and international commitments that require it to meet the highest international standards.

INTERNATIONAL COMMITMENTS

Signing date

Entities concerned Groupe BPCE & Natixis

Commitment

Pledges made

2003

Global Compact Advanced

Respect human rights, international labor standards, • environmental protection and the prevention of corruption

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Natixis

Incorporate environmental, social and corporate governance • (including anti-corruption) considerations in investment decisions

2010

Principles for Responsible Investment

2010

Equator Principles Signatories: thirteen Natixis Investment Managers subsidiaries which together hold 72% of all the assets under management by Natixis Investment Managers subsidiaries: AEW, Alliance ENTREPRENDRE, DNCA, Flexstone Partners, Investors Limited mutual fund, Loomis Sayles, Mirova, MV Crédit, Naxicap Partners, Ossiam, Ostrum AM, Seeyond, and Seventure Partners

Natixis

Evaluate the environmental and social (E&S) risks and impacts of • the projects it finances using a methodology accepted by many financial institutions to encourage its customers to manage, minimize, and remedy the impacts they cause

2019

New

UNEP FI:

Groupe BPCE & Natixis

Align the business strategy with the United Nations Sustainable • Development Goals (SDG) and the Paris Agreement on climate change Organize activities to foster more inclusive finance and a • sustainable economy Be transparent on their positive and negative impacts in terms of • local communities and the planet https://newsroom-en.groupebpce.fr/news/groupe-bpce-and-natixis -make-climate-action-and-sustainability-central-to-its-business -through-principles-for-responsible-banking-c1a3-53927.html Intensify steps to improve human rights across the value chain, to • establish inclusive working environments and to foster inclusion in internal and external ecosystems https://newsroom-en.groupebpce.fr/news/groupe-bpce-commits- to-tackling-inequality-by-joining-g7-business-for-inclusive-growth- b4ig-coalition-powered-by-the-oecd-4d73-53927.html

2019

Business for Inclusive Growth (B4IG)

Groupe BPCE

FINANCIAL SECTOR INITIATIVES BPCE is actively involved in financial sector initiatives in France, Europe and internationally.

Banques Populaires and Caisses d’Epargne, in particular as cooperative banks. At the end of 2018, BPCE was asked to chair the AFNOR group of finance, environment, climate and economy experts and to coordinate the future ISO 14100 environmental finance standard with China. This initiative is part of the bilateral agreements signed between France and China at the fifth High Level Economic and Financial Dialog (HED) at the end of 2017.

INTERNATIONALLY: INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS

BPCE is involved in international standards (ISO) work on environmental finance. Its goal is to ensure that financial standards models are compatible with those specific to the

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