NATIXIS -2020 Universal Registration Document

6 2020 NON-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE REPORT Strategic outlines and organization of the ESR policy

ESR governance 6.1.2 Since 2017, the ESR Department has benefited from strengthened governance, with the creation of a dedicated department reporting directly to a member of the Executive Management Committee. At the end of 2020, Natixis introduced a new governance structure for its ESR policy. To ensure the supervision of environmental and social issues by the Board of Directors, an ESR Committee has been created with the following skills: reviewing the Group’s ESR strategy and commitments; V monitoring the actions taken by Natixis to reduce its own footprint V and that of its financing and investment activities; monitoring employee awareness-raising actions; V monitoring the inclusion of extra-financial criteria in executive V compensation; examiningESR risks in terms of investment,economicperformance V and reputation; monitoring reporting, particularly the Statement of Non-Financial V Performance; reviewing the Company’s extra-financial ratings. V At the executive level, an ESR SponsorsCommitteebringing together executives from all Natixis business lines and functions, around the Executive Management Committee, ensures the validation and monitoring of the ESR strategy. To feed its thinking and steer the implementationof its strategy, ESR now relies on two steering Committees: one dedicated to internal ESR impacts and employee engagement, the other to sustainable business development and the management of ESR risks in our business lines. The ESR Department has also been strengthened with ten permanent employees responsible for overseeing and coordinating the integration of ESR into Natixis’ operations and activities, thus supporting the growing demand from clients, whether investors or corporate, of inclusion of ESR in their own development model. It is also responsible for regulatory and strategic reporting, and for relations with internal and external stakeholders who ask Natixis about its ESR policy (customers, employees, extra-financial rating agencies, NGOs, etc.). Natixis’ ESR strategy is based on a set of international agreements and consultations within the banking industry, including: the United Nations Global Compact since 2007; V the CDP since 2007; V the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN-PRI) V since 2008; the Equator Principles since 2010; V the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises; V ESR commitments 6.1.3

The department works with the support of a network of around 200 ESR correspondents in all business lines and functions. The correspondentsfromNatixis’ business lines (Corporate& Investment Banking, Asset & Wealth Management, Insurance, Specialized Financial Services) take part in business forums aimed at developing ESR in the business lines, while correspondents from the support departments (Real Estate and Logistics, Human Resources, Compliance, etc.) are involved in projects to incorporate sustainable development in the Company’s operations. In this context, the Corporate & Investment Banking business line has established a Green & Sustainable Hub. This operational hub comprises experts who help issuers and investors all around the world by offering them solutions and expertise in green and sustainable financing. Its expertise extends to all asset classes: the structuring and origination of loans, and investment solutions, in partnership with the business lines, which have appointed Green Captains, and in coordination with the ESR Department. The GSH provides training throughout the year so that the “Green Captains” improve their skills in sustainable finance. ESR correspondentshave also been active in Asset Management for several years (for example at Mirova, Ostrum Asset Management, and AEW Europe) as well as in the Insurance business lines (BPCE Assurances, BPCE Vie). ESR correspondentswere appointed in the overseas offices in 2018 to apply the ESR policy in all geographies. Lastly, to mobilize more broadly, Natixis has been organizing training and awareness-raisingsessions on sustainable development issues in recent years. This approach will be strengthened in 2021 with the deployment of a mandatory training module for all employees. Lastly, the ESR team works in close coordination with the BPCE sustainable development Department, both in defining and monitoring strategic guidelines and in reporting consolidated ESR data at Group level.

the Green Bond Principles and the Social Bond Principles (ICMA); V the Climate Bonds Initiative; V the Diversity Charter since 2009; V the Responsible Purchasing Charter since 2017; V the Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB) since 2018; V the act4nature Charter since 2018. V

Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 6.1.4 Adopted in 2015 by the UN’s 193 Member States at the sustainable development Summit in New York, the SDGs have become the benchmark for measuring progress by governments and private companies, including banks. Mindful of its role in achieving these goals, Natixis has identified 13 SDGs to which it already makes a material contributionthat is set to expand in the years to come, through financing and investments or in its own daily operations.

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