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HSBC Climate Partnership
The HSBC Climate Partnership is a five-year, US$100 million partnership between HSBC and The Climate Group, Earthwatch Institute, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and WWF, to respond to the urgent threat of climate change worldwide.
The HSBC Climate Partnership will:
- Help some of the world's great cities - Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York, Shanghai - respond to the challenge of climate change
- Create 'climate champions' worldwide who will undertake field research and bring back valuable knowledge and experience to their communities
- Conduct the largest ever field experiment on the world's forests to measure carbon and the effects of climate change
- Help protect some of the world's major rivers - including the Amazon, Ganges, Thames and Yangtze - from the impacts of climate change, benefiting 450 million people who rely on them.
Investing in Nature
In 2002, we created a US$50 million eco-partnership over five years to fund conservation projects around the world. We made the largest ever single donations to three charities, WWF, Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) and Earthwatch. We also trained 200 scientists and sent 2000 of our staff to work on vital research projects.
The Investing in Nature Programme managed and restored more than 3 million hectares or habitat and conserved and protected more than 14,500 plant and animal species. It also improved the livelihoods of some 140,000 people.
The programme's main highlights included influencing how China's Yangtze's River was managed, lobbying the UK government to implement a new European water framework directive and promoting better management of fresh water in Brazil through the “Water for Life” campaign.
The Investing in Nature programme helped:
- Resuscitate three of the world's major rivers - The Freshwater Challenge
- To halt global plant extinction - The Plants Challenge
- To deliver a “century” of environmental research - The People Challenge
2007 Sustainability Report
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