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ACCOUNTABILITY REPORT ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 2021 Business line contributions to green and sustainable growth

2021 KEY EVENT Iceberg Data Lab

In line with Natixis’ commitment to support innovative environmentalsolutions, Natixis IM recently completed a minority investment with Iceberg Data Lab, a financial technology company that develops assessment tools and provides environmental data solutions to banks. Faced with the growing demand from banks and their stakeholdersfor greater transparencyon the impact of portfolios on the climate and the environment, Natixis Ossiam worked closely with Iceberg Data lab to develop the Food for Biodiversity ETF using its biodiversity footprint indicator. In addition, following the development of an investment strategy that minimizes the portfolio’s biodiversity footprint, Ossiam has committed to integrating biodiversity at the heart of its activities by signing the Finance for Biodiversity commitment. Ostrum AM has developed the consideration of biodiversity in their analyzes and commitments. DNCA publishes a trajectory/biodiversityreport. Dorval AM measures the sensitivity of emitters in terms of biodiversity and land management,water stress and relations with local communities. Thus, issues related to biodiversityand natural capital are an integral part of their proprietary extra-financial rating on the environmental pillar.

IM and its subsidiary Mirova, as well as AXA IM, Sienna Capital and Solactivewill support the global expansion and product development of Iceberg Data Lab. The latter aims to bring to the market intelligent solutions of scientific data and data on biodiversity and was recently selectedby a consortiumof investors, including Mirova, to developa tool allowing investors to measure the impact of their investments on biodiversity. AEW CILOGER integrates biodiversity into its SRI policy and management practices. A biodiversity indicator is included in the ESG audit that it has developed. This makes it possible to assess the building’s initial performanceand improve its managementthrough a dedicated action plan. A biodiversity indicator is used for six funds or mandates corresponding to 33% of the portfolio managed. Specific actions have been implemented, including biodiversity strategies across several portfolios and the integration of biodiversity into the Innov 2019 project. In 2021 AEW CILOGER also signed the Afilog Charter in favor of biodiversity and applicable to logistics buildings.

Thematic investment in natural capital

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Since 2017, Mirova has had a platformspecializing in investment for biodiversity conservation and natural capital. Mirova develops innovative investment solutions to mitigate and adapt to climate change, and to protect local regions, biodiversity, soil and marine resources, with €458 million invested in natural capital. In September 2021, Mirova published a progress report on its biodiversity roadmap focusing on three areas:

accelerate investments in biodiversity; V develop dedicated measurement indicators; V strengthen commitments to its stakeholders. V

2021 KEY EVENT Launch of an alliance for investment in Natural Capital

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The Alliance aims to mobilize $10 billion in investments for the theme of Natural Capital across all asset classes by 2022.

Mirova , HSBC Pollination Climate Asset Management and Lombard Odier co-founded the Alliance for Investment in NaturalCapital as part of the Sustainable Markets Initiative. The Alliance was created under the leadershipof His Royal Highness,The Princeof Wales, as part of the SustainableMarkets Initiative. The creation of the Alliance was announced at the One Planet Summit. In response to the depletion of natural capital and land degradation as global issues (relating to food security, human life and ecosystems), the Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Fund is an example of the type of innovative public-privatepartnershipsneeded to finance the SDGs. The Fund was created (1) by the United Nations and Mirova as a source of transformative capital bringing together public and private investors to fund triple bottom line (economic, social and financial) projects that contribute to Land Degradation Neutrality. The LDN Fund will invest in three crucial sectors: sustainable agriculture, sustainable forestry, and other projects such as green infrastructure or ecotourism as opportunities arise.

The LDN Fund aims to generate positive environmental and socioeconomic impacts alongside financial returns. By addressing land degradation, the LDN Fund aims to deliver the following benefits:

land degradation neutrality; V climate change mitigation; V climate change adaptation; V

improved livelihoods; V improved biodiversity. V

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). (1)

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