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May 10th, 2013

Beehives on the roof in Brussels

The Chancellerie building in Brussels, the most sustainable of BNP Paribas Fortis’ premises, is now even more environmentally friendly: it now has beehives on its roof!
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Freddy Quidousse

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April 22nd, 2013

The Green Eco Day Bazaar

A “Green Eco Day Bazaar” was organized by employees of BNP Paribas in Korea organized on 3 April at Beautiful Store, an NGO serving public interests. [...]

For the love of green

Since January, a little green bus has been making its way through the streets of Geneva carrying employees of BNP Paribas Switzerland. There’s a major difference between this eight-seat shuttle and the old minibus that served the same purpose: this one runs on green energy! [...]

A Green Roof in Santiago

The Salvador Allende Elementary School is setting an example in environmental awareness. In an endeavor to support sustainable development and to improve the community, BNP Paribas Cardif in Chile has added 250 square meters of green roofing to the 115 sq. meters they had already planted in 2011 in this same school. With this [...]

1 Day, 20,000 Trees

In an effort to plant 20,000 trees in just one day across New York City, MillionTreesNYC held a Volunteer Planting Day on October 27th. 35 volunteers from BNP Paribas, including friends and family members, boarded buses at the office to travel to the designated site, Floyd Bennet Field in Brooklyn. [...]

Ecocentric Transitions: How to reconnect people with their environment and community values?

Our first post comes after our meeting with two amazing people, who set up their own business in Malaysia to help children, households and companies to better understand climate change and find easy ways to act now. [...]

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Florence Valle

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October 2nd, 2012

MillionTreesNYC…five years of planting

This year was BNP Paribas’ fifth consecutive year sponsoring MillionTreesNYC. By supporting this joint initiative between the NYC Parks Department and the New York Restoration Project, the Bank has contributed to the Mayor’s goal of planting one million new trees in New York City over the next decade. [...]

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Erin Kehoe

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September 14th, 2012

Giving new life to used equipment

During the month of August, the BNP Paribas Fortis Foundation organised the distribution of used equipment to various not-for-profit associations. [...]

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