NATIXIS - 2018 Registration document and annual financial report

NON-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE REPORT Managing our direct environmental impact

PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE 6.5.5 MOBILITY

to work remotely. The use of teleconferencing and videoconferencing has been rising steadily, notably with the roll-out of Easy workstations. Expand bicycle infrastructure: a Natixis now has 550 indoor bike parking spaces spread across 17 Greater Paris locations (an increase of 200 spaces since 2017) and 52 new outdoor bicycle racks have been installed in front of the 47 Quai building (in the 13th arrondissement of Paris). Facilitate the use of electric bicycles: a Parking spaces fitted with charging sockets have been installed: 77 parking spaces (an increase of 20 spaces since 2017). Natixis is developing a green service, for employees using a a company car: 50 models of hybrid/electric car are now being offered as part of the Natixis car fleet (10% of total selection). The Natixis Company car fleet now includes 7 electric vehicles. Encourage the use of public transport and “soft” modes a of transport: Natixis encourages its employees to use public transport systems, which happen to be available close to its offices. It reimburses 60% of employee travel costs. Since 2018, Natixis has also been reimbursing employee subscriptions to public bike-sharing services in full.

Mobility plan In 2018, Natixis furthered its efforts to promote clean mobility, in accordance with the French Energy Transition for Green Growth Act of 2015, with the publication of an inter-company mobility plan for the Greater Paris region. Five other plans were also drawn up for the main French regions in which Natixis has offices. The inter-company mobility plan for the Greater Paris region involves more than 20 Group companies and 26 different office buildings, or some 18,000 employees. This enabled Natixis to take fresh steps to reduce the need for employees to travel and to support more environmentally-friends forms of transport. Facilitate telecommuting and remote working to reduce a business travel: The system is being rolled out gradually, with more than 5,000 Natixis employees telecommuting at end-December, or over 41% of Natixis’ headcount in France. The 2018 telecommuting agreement specifies that, in the event of a peak in pollution involving restrictions on car usage, additional telecommuting days would be granted, as would work-from-home authorizations for employees with the means

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2018 Key Event 2018 European Mobility Week

Natixis launched a proactive communication drive for the 2018 European Mobility Week: sending out flyers describing the various measures in the new mobility plan, offering trial runs on electrical and hydrogen-powered bikes as well as electric cars, and organizing a bike repair workshop. Natixis also launched a new carpool platform, ECOpartage, which is available to all employees of the Groupe BPCE, Natixis and their subsidiaries. The in-house platform facilitates contact between employees wishing to share car journeys.

Car fleet management The environmental impact of the Company car fleet can be significant. In 2018 alone, Natixis Company cars covered nearly 13.5 million kilometers. Natixis is therefore selecting more eco-friendly vehicles—in terms of both CO 2 and particulate emissions—under its car policy. The share of electric and hybrid engine vehicles in the bank’s car fleet increased substantially in 2018, to 74 vehicles, or 13% of the total fleet, compared to 9% in 2017. Under its car policy, Natixis only provides Senior Management Committee members with rechargeable hybrid vehicles respecting average CO 2 emission rates of 48 mg/km. Diesel cars are being eliminated from the fleet, with their share of the fleet falling from 24% at end 2017 to 7.8% at end 2018 and 44 diesel vehicles due to reach the end of their long-term leasing contracts in 2019. The average CO 2 emission rate has stabilized at 114 g/km following the implementation of the new WLTP standard, under which car manufacturers are obliged to lower their vehicles’ CO 2 emissions.

Business travel policy Since 2011, Natixis’ business travel and expenses policy has set out rules ensuring the safety and comfort of employees during business trips, while contributing to the policy of optimizing the costs and managing the environmental impact of these trips. This policy applies to Natixis and its subsidiaries, excluding Financial Investments in France. The subsidiaries and branches abroad establish travel rules that are consistent with the Group’s Worldwide Travel policy. This notably includes rules on business travel that has an environmental impact: when a destination can be reached by both rail and air, trains a are now compulsory for a number of destinations in France and Europe (depending on journey time); economy class is compulsory for domestic flights, flights a between European countries and intercontinental flights of less than four hours;

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Natixis Registration Document 2018

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