Annual Report - BNP Paribas

The Group’s approach to
sustainable development
Responsibility based on core values
and guiding principles
BNP Paribas does not take its approach to sustainable development lightly.
The Group’s economic, corporate and environmental responsibilities are an
integral part of its business ethic and are rooted in its founding values of responsiveness,
creativity, commitment and ambition, which combine individual
actions in a cohesive group-wide approach.
Four
unifying values
Responsiveness
Creativity
Commitment
Ambition
Guiding principles
Operating
procedures
per division/
business line
❚ Management principles
❚ Ethical rules
❚ HR management rules
❚ Rules governing relations with clients and suppliers
❚ Ten main lines of approach to environmental responsibility
A strong commitment
to sustainable development
BNP Paribas bases its sustainable development efforts on targeted, coherent
public commitments. In 2007, it actively pursued its participation in numerous
initiatives, some of which are specifi c to the banking sector and others which are
more wide-ranging. This allowed the Group to promote sustainable development
in a range of areas and at different levels.
Global initiatives
BNP Paribas has been a member of the United Nations’ Global Compact
since 2003. The Compact’s ten principles are embedded within the Group’s
policies and inform all of its operating principles. As in previous years, in 2007
the Group published its Communication on Progress (COP).
BNP Paribas contributes to the work of the Observatoire de la Responsabilité
Sociétale des Entreprises (ORSE), the French study centre for corporate responsibility,
and Entreprises pour l’Environnement (EpE), a coalition of forty
French companies united by a commitment to the environment and sustainable
development. BNP Paribas has also undertaken to run the meetings of
the sustainable development club within ANVIE, the French association for
the promotion of interdisciplinary research in humanities and social sciences
in the business world.
The world’s leading companies are paying increasing attention to their
approach to human rights. Against such a backdrop, BNP Paribas has joined
eight leading French and francophone groups to share best practices with
a view to better incorporating respect for human rights into their business
policies and promoting human rights issues. Entreprises pour les Droits de
l’Homme (EDH – Companies for human rights) draws its inspiration from the
FRB
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IRS
AMS
CIB
Day-to-day
behaviour
Our sustainable
development
responsibilities