Sustainability
Our deep sustainability expertise is integrated across traditional and alternative investments to support the delivery of optimal long-term risk-adjusted returns and simplify decision-making.
Sustainability has been part of our DNA for more than twenty years, taking a multi-dimensional view across climate, nature and social equity. Naturally, investors may prioritise different dimensions.
Our Shades of Green approach lets them balance sustainability ambition and risk/return expectations by drawing on our deep bench of expertise. We have a clear forward-looking thematic framework centred on three pillars:
Energy transition, supporting transition to a lower-carbon economy
Ecosystems, protecting environment, biodiversity, natural resources
Equality, promoting social inclusion, fair governance, societal equity
We aim to contribute meaningfully to real world outcomes through sustainable thematic investment and stock selection as well as through active stewardship. We engage constructively with issuers, partners, and policy-makers to help drive positive change, uphold high standards with our own corporate practices and disclosures and foster a culture of sustainability through employee engagement and education.
We have identified four megatrends shaping societal change, the economy, and financial markets: environmental pressures, geopolitical shifts, demographic change and innovation. By analysing these, we seek to identify risks and opportunities and to inform our investment decisions for a more sustainable future. Learn more about our thematic investing.
Reports and policies
Our sustainability policies outline how we aim to address these issues through our investments, business practices and culture and our reports share our progress in a visible, measurable, and accountable way.
Sustainability Report 2025
Our sustainability policies and reports
Important information
The content of this page on BNP Paribas Asset Management’s approach and corporate philosophy is only for information purposes and does not constitute an offer to buy or sell any services, products or investments. These statements apply differently to each BNP Paribas Asset Management product, the characteristics of which, including those relating to sustainability, are described in the legal documentation of the funds, available here according to your country of residence and investor profile.
“The sustainable investor for a changing world” reflects the objective of BNP PARIBAS ASSET MANAGEMENT Europe to integrate sustainable development into its activities, although not all funds managed by BNP PARIBAS ASSET MANAGEMENT Europe fulfil the requirement of either Article 8, for a minimum proportion of sustainable investments, or those of Article 9 under the European Regulation 2019/2088 on sustainability-related disclosures in the financial services sector (SFDR). For more information, please see www.bnpparibas-am.com/en/sustainability.
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment risk: The lack of common or harmonised definitions and labels integrating ESG and sustainability criteria at EU level may result in different approaches by managers when setting ESG objectives. This also means that it may be difficult to compare strategies integrating ESG and sustainability criteria to the extent that the selection and weightings applied to select investments may be based on metrics that may share the same name but have different underlying meanings. In evaluating a security based on the ESG and sustainability criteria, the Investment Manager may also use data sources provided by external ESG research providers. Given the evolving nature of ESG, these data sources may for the time being be incomplete, inaccurate or unavailable. Applying responsible business conduct standards in the investment process may lead to the exclusion of securities of certain issuers. Consequently, (the Sub-Fund’s) performance may at times be better or worse than the performance of relatable funds that do not apply such standards.