Our environmental commitment

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To promote positive environmental action through our green corporate culture, that enables us to integrate environmental risk and improve our value offering for our entrepreneurs, co-workers and wider society.

Environmental strategy

BBVA Microfinance Foundation defines “green” as:

“All activities that support mitigation and adaptation to climate change and environmental conservation, whether this is through more eco-friendly farming, responsible water use and sanitation, energy efficiency, appropriate management of raw materials and waste, or sustainable mobility solutions”

Value offering

Commitment to our entrepreneurs
BBVAMF Group drives environmentally friendly measures forward and encourages practices among its entrepreneurs that are respectful of their surroundings.

COLOMBIA

Microfinance for Ecosystem-based Adaptation (MEbA) program

This helps clients to implement new technologies, together with climate-change mitigation and adaptation measures.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Sustainable housing

This pilot program supports entrepreneurs who want to build sustainable rural homes for themselves.

Eco-credit

Financing to promote the implementation of climate-change mitigation and adaptation measures.

BBVAMF Group has excluded
activities that damage the
environment from its future financing

Climate vulnerability and resilience

Exclusion of activities
BBVAMF Group has excluded from its financing going forward activities that damage the environment’s equilibrium. The exclusion list drawn up by IFC (International Finance Corporation, part of the World Bank group) has been implemented in our institutions.

* Measures all greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions directly or indirectly caused by our activities.

* Mide la totalidad de Gases de Efecto Invernadero (GEI) emitidos por efecto directo o indirecto provenientes del desarrollo de nuestra actividad