NATIXIS // 2021 Universal Registration Document

ACCOUNTABILITY REPORT ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 2021 Managing our direct environmental impact

2021 KEY EVENT My Green Footprint: a measurement tool to support employees

in their environmental transition! Natixis has made an individual tool available to all its employees in France measuring their environmental footprint at work : My Green Footprint. Thanks to this tool, employees can quickly assess their carbon impact related to their uses at work (commuting, lunch, energy consumption, IT equipment)and through the simulation game and tips, obtain courses of action to reduce their impact. Every year since 2016, Ostrum Asset Management has offset 100% of its direct carbon emissions through several external avoidance projects in partnership with Eco Act. This approach by avoiding emissions makes it possible to have a direct and immediate effect. For example, in Eritrea, the borehole rehabilitationproject enables us to supply local populationswith drinking water through the repair of boreholes. Families no longer have to burn firewood to purify water, which limits emissions from deforestation and combustion.

My Green Footprintwill be enhanced in the future with three new indicators: business travel, IT usage and waste. In addition, the roll-out to international platforms is underway, as is the opening up to Groupe BPCE entities.

Lastly, Natixis contributes to the development of carbon sinks by financing Planète Urgence’s Environment and Developmentprogram in Indonesia, which in 2021 made it possible to plant nearly 20,000 trees and raise awareness among local communities about mangrove preservation and local biodiversity. Similarly, in Porto, awareness-raising actions on reforestation were carried out with donations to employees of 54 native trees planted locally in Portuguese forests.

Responsible purchasing 7.4.8

The responsiblepurchasingpolicy is a strategicand operational lever for the implementationof the BPCE and Natixis ESR policy. The main objective of the policy is to promote more eco-friendly products and services that provide guarantees and added value at the social and societal levels. Broader objectives are also pursued through this policy: assessing Natixis’ suppliers using social and environmental V responsibility criteria related to their products, services or industries; promoting official environmental certifications and eco-designed V products; encouraging suppliers to be more transparent in describing the V environmental characteristics of their products.

This policy is based on a number of tools, including a responsible purchasing framework, specifying the criteria applicable by category of products and services. In this new version of the responsible purchasing framework, the ESR criteria have been reviewed in many purchasingcategories, with the systematic search for options to replace the purchase of new equipment (internal reuse, purchase of refurbished equipment, etc.) and increased requirements for mandatory criteria (reference labels, respect for human rights). These criteria were included in all purchases made for the work environment and offices program (furniture, works, catering, IT equipment, etc.) with a weighting of 20% of the ESR score in the selection of suppliers.

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