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Responsibility based on core values and guiding principles
the group’s approach
BNP Paribas’ approach to sustainable development is an integral part of its business ethic.
Economic, corporate and environmental responsibility is rooted in the Group’s founding values
of responsiveness, creativity, commitment and ambition, which look to combine individual
actions in a cohesive group-wide approach.
Four unifying
values
Responsiveness
Creativity
Commitment
Ambition
Guiding
principles
> Management principles
> Ethical rules
> HR management rules
> Rules governing relations
with clients and suppliers
> Ten main lines of approach
to environmental responsibility
Operating
procedures per
division/business line
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IRFS
AMS
CIB
Day-to-day
behaviour
Our social and
environmental
responsibilities
A strong commitment to promoting sustainable development concerns
BNP Paribas has traditionally based its sustainable development efforts on targeted, coherent
public commitments. The Group is closely involved in numerous initiatives and organisations,
some of which have a global reach while others remain specifi c to the banking sector. In 2006,
BNP actively pursued its association with various sustainable development organisations with a
view to boosting its impact in a range of areas and at different levels.
> Global initiatives
BNP Paribas is a member of the United Nations’ Global Compact, whose ten principles have
been embedded within the Group’s policies and inform all operating decisions taken by management.
As in previous years and in accordance with commitments made at the time of
joining the Global Compact, the Group published its Communication on Progress (COP) on the
UN’s website. In 2006, BNP Paribas was one of the foremost companies to be awarded the
Notable Practices qualifi cation.
BNP Paribas contributes to the work of ORSE, the French study centre for corporate responsibility,
and EpE (companies for the environment). It also leads 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 (Companies for human rights – EDH) draws its inspiration from
the work carried out by the Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights since 2003 and has
been set up to widen contributions from the French-speaking world.