NATIXIS - Universal registration document and financial report 2019

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

ESR commitments 6.1.4

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 Carbon Disclosure Project (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

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

2019 KEY EVENT Signature of the Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB)

Following on from the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) established in 2006 and the Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI) announced in 2012, the PRB are a global initiative launched by the banking industry in 2018. The PRB were drafted by 30 founding banks — including Natixis — under the United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI) and were officially launched at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York on September 22, 2019. At the launch, the unprecedented global coalition brought together 130 signatory banks collectively holding over $47 trillion in assets, representing one third of the global banking sector. The PRB set out what it means to be a responsible bank and provide the first global framework for incorporating sustainability in all banking activities, be it in terms of strategy, financing, market and advisory activities or their direct impact. Signatory banks will publicly acknowledge their positive and negative social, environmental and economic impacts. The banks agreed to set public targets to address their main negative impacts and to step up their positive impacts in order to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and align with the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Since 2018, Natixis has involved all its business lines in measures to preserve biodiversity by joining act4nature, an initiative bringing together French businesses from all sectors of activity. Under this initiative, Natixis has undertaken to incorporate nature in its business strategy and to take real action to provide solutions to preserve and restore biodiversity, ensure that natural resources are used sustainably and that the benefits derived from nature are distributed fairly. Natixis is also a member of the French Observatory for Corporate social responsibility (ORSE) and of Finance for Tomorrow (Paris Europlace) and as such participates in work to promote responsible finance. Internationally, Natixis actively contributes to industry-wide green finance initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region through the Hong Kong Green Finance Association.

Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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The 193 member states of the United Nations adopted the SDGs at the Sustainable Development Summit in New York in 2015. The SDGs form the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, a set of 17 global targets aimed at combating inequality, exclusion and injustice, fighting climate change, protecting biodiversity and ending extreme poverty. They are the benchmark for measuring progress achieved by governments and private sector companies, including financial institutions. The SDGs are universal, inclusive, interconnected, ambitious targets that provide all of Natixis’ business lines with a framework for measuring the impact of their activities, a means of raising employee awareness, a way of encouraging cooperation between business lines, and a source of business opportunities. Mindful of its role in achieving these goals, Natixis has identified 11 SDGs to which it already makes a material contribution that is set to expand in the years to come, through financing and investments or in its own daily operations.

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