Our commitment
At CaixaBank, we protect the environment when we are performing our activities. We implement the best environmental and energy practices in accordance with our Sustainability Principles .
Our 2022-2024 Sustainable Banking Plan includes the 2022-2024 Environmental Management Plan, with eight action plans aimed at reducing the direct impact of our activity as a Group:
- Governance in Environmental Management
- Climate Change: operational carbon footprint, renewable energy consumption and offset of emissions
- Environmentally-friendly purchasing and contracting
- Environmentally-friendly catalogue of non-financial products
- Commitment to circular economy
- Sustainable Mobility Plan
- Promotion of efficiency
- Renewal of voluntary certifications and extension of the perimeter
With this aim in mind, we have defined the following objectives with indicators for each year of the Plan with the perimeter of Scope 1 and 2 for the CaixaBank Group and the Scope 3 concepts detailed in the section on calculating the Carbon Footprint for CaixaBank, S.A:
OBJECTIVE |
INDICATORS |
2022 |
2022 |
2023 |
2023 |
2024 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Carbon footprint minimization and offsetting
|
Scope 1 (vs 20211) |
-7% |
-10% |
-10% |
-21% |
-15% |
Scope 2 (MARKET-BASET) (vs 2021) |
-100% |
-100% |
-100% |
-100% |
-100% |
|
Scope 3 former operational perimeter (vs 2021)2 |
-12% |
-38% |
-15% |
-35% |
-18% |
|
Reduction in CO2 emissions (vs 2021) |
-12.9% |
-31.74% |
-16% |
-33% |
-19% |
|
Carbon Neutral3. CO2 emissions offset: scopes 1, 2 and 3.6 (business trips) |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
|
100% renewable energy consumption |
Consumption of renewable energy |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
100% |
Reduction of paper consumption/waste |
Reduction of A4 paper consumption (vs 2021) |
-8% |
-34.6% |
-12% |
-27,7% |
-15% |
Implementation of energy efficiency measures |
Saving in energy consumed (vs 2021) |
-6% |
-14.1% |
-8% |
-22,8% |
-10% |
Renewal of certifications and extension of the perimeter |
Environmental certifications in main buildings (vs 11 certifications 20214) |
2 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
1. The targets related to reducing emissions in scopes 1 and 2, the Carbon Neutral target, 100% renewable energy consumption and its reduction and the number of certifications take into account the entire Group (including 16 subsidiaries) and scope 3 and the reduction in paper consumption are limited to CaixaBank, S.A.
2. For the calculation of base year emissions to determine the Scope 1 emissions reduction target, CaixaBank's refrigerant gas emissions data take the average for the period 2019-2021 as a reference. This means that the total emissions value of this scope in the base year used as the basis for determining the reduction target is 10,649 tCO2eq.
3. The scope 3 (operational) target was calculated based on the calculation perimeter prior to the rescaled operational carbon footprint, partially including the scope 3 categories related to the environmental indicators that were previously monitored, irrespective of their materiality. The corporate travel emissions data included in this target correspond to CaixaBank, S.A. and take 2019 (prior to COVID restrictions) as the base year. This means that the total emissions value of Scope 3 in the base year used as the basis for determining the reduction target is 24,579 tCO2eq.
4. The carbon neutral perimeter includes the CaixaBank Group's scopes 1, 2 and 3.6 (corporate travel). Emissions that could not be avoided, and offset them by purchasing credits on the voluntary emissions offset market, as explained in the section Carbon footprint mitigation strategy.
5. In 2022 CaixaBank sold the certified building located at Paseo de la Castellana 51, transferring most of its employees to the building at Castellana 189, which is also ISO 14001 certified. The baseline data on which we assess the targets has changed to 10 certifications on which two new buildings belonging to BPI were added in 2022 and a third belonging thereto in 2023.