HSBC
The HSBC Climate Partnership is a groundbreaking, five-year partnership between HSBC, WWF, Earthwatch Institute, The Climate Group and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. HSBC's US $100 million investment aims to combat the urgent threat of climate change by inspiring action by individuals, businesses and governments worldwide.
Working with these partners, and engaging its 312,000 staff members, HSBC hopes to counter climate change impacts for people, water, forests and cities. The programme has significant targets including;
- Helping to protect some of the worlds major rivers - the Amazon, Ganges, Yangtze and Thames - from the impacts of climate change, benefiting the 450 million people who rely on them;
- Make some of the worlds greatest cities - Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York and Shanghai - cleaner and greener, which the partners will promote as models for the world;
- Create 'climate champions' worldwide who will undertake field research and bring back valuable knowledge and experience to their communities; and
- Conduct the largest field experiment on the world's forests to measure carbon and the effects of climate change.
The HSBC Climate Partnership builds upon Investing in Nature, the Groups previous five-year initiative which concluded in 2006. Working with WWF, BGCI and Earthwatch, the programme has helped protect and better manage three of the worlds largest rivers for the benefits of some 50 million people, is estimated to have saved more than 1200 plant species from extinction and trained 200 scientists.
