A BETTER SOCIETY
Through the offers we deploy, the aim is to encourage and help our customers accelerate their own transition. The European Commission is currently developing new regulations for the financial sector, centred on taxonomy. This will allow companies and banks to back the same reliable and scientifically proven benchmark and to build the financial and technological instruments necessary for a successful transition. Transparency is crucial in order to reassure investors that their efforts are moving in the right direction.
WHILE THIS TRANSITION INVOLVES SOCIETY AS A WHOLE, ARE THERE, NEVERTHELESS SECTORS THAT SHOULD BE GIVEN PRIORITY?
Tactically, it is logical to turn first of all towards the areas that emit most or towards the actors whose environmental impact is the most excessive in their domain. But we are a universal bank and, once more, making a success of this transition requires that everyone should participate. We therefore want to support all our customers, starting with SMEs, professionals and farmers who want to make a commitment but do not always know how to do so. We haven’t forgotten the innovative start-ups: In 2016, Lille hosted the first Village by CA in the region, 40 of which are now established across France, and are now expanding in Italy, the United States and Japan. The site in Lille is now home to more than 50 startups. All this has enabled us to raise more than one billion euros from our partners at a national level.
INCLUDING PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS?
Yes, we are extremely mindful of reinforcing the support given to our individual customers in the sector of energy renovation, in the housing sector or that of green mobilities. We also
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Thierry LEBRUN
Director in charge of Transitional Banking at the Crédit Agricole Nord de France.
propose investment and saving products geared towards companies committed to social and environmental values and we will intensify this approach in order to enable everyone to participate in a transition that must create the conditions for consumers and investors to join us.
“We therefore want to support all our customers, starting with SMEs, professionals and farmers who want to make a commitment but do not always know how to do so.”
