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May 10th, 2011

Rain or Shine: Trees Spring Up in the Bronx and Staten Island

While storm clouds provided the backdrop to this year’s Arbor Day, nothing could stop the BNP Paribas volunteers from coming out and getting their hands dirty in support of MillionTreesNYC. [...]

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April 26th, 2011

A green program that continues to thrive in Italy

You may remember reading about “Metti in conto un nuovo albero” (“take into account a new tree”), a green initiative created by BNL – BNP Paribas Group in Italy. In the months following the inauguration of a new bank branch, BNL commits to planting a tree for every individual account opened by members of the [...]

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Lizette Rivera

Lizette Rivera

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April 4th, 2011

New Subway Campaign Set to Launch MillionTreesNYC Events

You may not know it from the New York weather, but spring is here…and that means that BNP Paribas is getting back involved in MillionTreesNYC initiatives across the city!
It will be the fourth consecutive year BNP Paribas is supporting this important initiative to plant, and care for, one million trees by the year 2017 – [...]

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March 15th, 2011

Paving the Roadways with Green

What’s the first thing you see when driving to Manhattan from the airport, or into the city from New Jersey or Connecticut to see a Broadway show? Even before the skyline, there are the roadways. [...]

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December 24th, 2010

Sustainable Christmas Trees

Our Christmas tree this year comes from a company that is a member of AFSNN (Association Française du Sapin de Noël – the French Christmas Tree Association) and that sells Christmas trees produced through sustainable agriculture… [...]

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Vincent Doreau

Vincent Doreau

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December 9th, 2010

6,000 trees planted across Italy

BNL’s programme, “Metti in conto un nuovo albero”, aims to plant a tree for every account opened in new bank branches. The goal is to help “greenify” public spaces as well as tocompensate for the bank’s C02 emissions. [...]

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Raffaella Violentano

Raffaella Violentano

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September 30th, 2010

Taking root across Italy

Did you know that autumn is the best season for tree planting? BNL in Italy is taking full advantage, as their new tree planting initiative is in full swing. At new bank branches in Arezzo, Verona, Ferrara, Aversa, and l’Aquila, a tree is donated to the local municipal council for every new account opened.
The desired [...]

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September 29th, 2010

Tree Planting, Take II: Green Revolution in India

This past July, 60 employees across various BNP Paribas India entities came together to take part in “Green Revolution”, the territory’s tree plantation initiative for a low-carbon economy. They traveled to a trip to a rural village in Bhiwandi about 100 kilometers from Mumbai. Set in the West Coast of India, the area is characterized [...]

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September 15th, 2010

The Common Land Regeneration Programme in India

The Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), founded in 2001 in India, strives to protect and regenerate the country’s natural resources. They work with 1,526 village institutions in 27 districts across six states, and assist the village communities in protecting 107,094 hectares of revenue wastelands, degraded forestlands and grazing lands.
In keeping with its eco-restoration efforts [...]

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