«The role of CSR activities in reducing the

Environmental Impact of the Bank»

Prokopis Gavriil

PIRAEUS BANK S.A.

GREECE

Environment Unit

REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCING NON CONVENTIONAL WATER RESOURCES (NCWR) MANAGEMENT IN

THE MEDITERRANEAN, 14-15 SEPTEMBER 2011, ATHENS, GREECE

Session 5: “What is the role of Corporate Social Responsibility for advancing NCWRM?”

Contents

Corporate Governance

Corporate Governance

Human Resources

Human Resources

Customers & Suppliers

Customers & Suppliers

Society

Society

Environment

Environment

Culture

Culture

Our CSR Pillars

• 2003: establishment of the CSR Sector

• 2003: adaptation of an Environmental

Management Policy

• 2004: creation of the Environment Unit

• 2007: establishment of the CSR Committee

• 2009: creation of Green Business Sector

• 2010: the BoD issued an Environmental Policy

• 2011: EMAS registration

Milestones

Participation in Organisations,

Indices and Distinctions

The GREENbanking4Life project

ASSESSMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTASSESSMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

MITIGATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTMITIGATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

OPERATIONALOPERATIONAL CORE BUSINESSCORE BUSINESS

AWARENESS AWARENESS -- EDUCATION EDUCATION -- DISSEMINATIONDISSEMINATION

The GREENbanking4Life project

ASSESSMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTASSESSMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

MITIGATION OF ENVIRONMETAL IMPACTMITIGATION OF ENVIRONMETAL IMPACT

OPERATIONALOPERATIONAL

AWARENESS AWARENESS -- EDUCATION EDUCATION -- DISSEMINATIONDISSEMINATION

Environmental Footprint Database

If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage itPeter Drucker, writer and management consultant

Monitoring, energy & resource

management

• Monitoring performance, detecting environmental

problems, measuring “environmental footprint”

• Replacing the fleet with low CO2 emission cars

• Photovoltaic systems in 4 different buildings of

Piraeus Bank with a total capacity of 45KW

Communication and education

Communicate environmental

progress with top management

Incentives to improve employees’

environmental behaviour

Exchanging expertise with Piraeus

Bank’s subsidiaries

Communication and education

Weekly GREEN NEWS on the Bank’s

intranet

E-learning program

“PIRAEUS BANK AND THE

ENVIRONMENT”

Recycling waste, green procurement,

transportation & water saving

� Paper recycling

� Battery recycling

� Ink and toner recycling

� Plastic recycling

� Green Procurement

� Water saving techniques

An example of non conventional water

resources management on the island of Kea

• a pilot rainwater collection system

in a branch on Kea Island

• a traditional Cycladic water saving

technique

• rainwater is collected from the

building’s flat roof

• stored in a reservoir located

outside the building

• pumped into the WC, where most

of the water is consumed

Our achievements

EMAS certification

• In 2011 the Bank joined the European EMAS Register and was certified with ISO 14001.

• The EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) is a voluntary environmental management tool for companies to evaluate, report and improve their environmental performance.

• Is the only Bank in Greece certified under EMAS for all the

branches and all the

administration buildings.

Climate Business+

www.climabiz.gr

GREEN

BANKINGGREEN

BANKINGSustainable

BankingSustainable

Banking

Green Business

Green Products

Indices

Certificatinions

Awards

Environmental Risk –

Climate Change

Environmental

Management

System

(EMS)

Society - Culture

Επιτεύγµατα Περιβαλλοντικής Πολιτικής Τράπεζας

Πειραιώς What’s next

Thank you

PIRAEUS BANK S.A.

Environment Unit 4, Amerikis Str., 105 64 Athens

GREECE

environment@piraeusbank.gr