EDITO RIAL Nicolas Namias Chief Executive Officer, Natixis Natixis strongly believes in the importance of managing risks and opportunities linked to climate change. Hence, for several years, the Company has made the climate and energy transition one of its strategic priorities. For Natixis, climate challenges also represent an excellent opportunity. We aspire to be our clients’ leading partner in accelerating their energy transition. We are convinced that a financial firm such as ours can contribute its expertise to financing the large-scale efforts to build major renewable energy infrastructures, but also to support our clients in their energy transition in all areas of the economy and not just high-profile “green” sectors, across all our business lines and geographies. In each of our business lines, we have built expert ESG-topic teams to define sustainable solutions for all of our activities. This strategic commitment is part of the BPCE Group’s plan to place the fight against climate change at the center of its development strategy for 2024. I am very proud that Natixis is the first bank to have a granular tool to analyze the climate impact of transitioning its financing activities with its Green Weighting Factor. It enables us to actively monitor the climate trajectory of our Corporate & Investment Banking activities for which we have set specific targets of 2.5°C by 2024, 2°C by 2030 and 1.5°C by 2050.