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Garanti BBVA Issues Türkiye's First Biodiversity Bond

María Prados — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 07:10:44 +0000

Garanti BBVA made history in Türkiye by isuing the first biodiversity blue bond, a landmark transaction aimed at protecting marine ecosystems. The $20.22 million bond has a three year maturity and will be used to support the sustainable management of marine ecosystems in the Mediterranean basin.

BBVA allocates more than $150 million to Colombia’s biodiversity

O015863 — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 14:08:43 +0000

In 2024, BBVA set itself the goal of becoming the leading financial partner for projects that protect and restore Colombia’s biodiversity. That goal is already being achieved: the bank has now allocated more than $150 million. Companies across different sectors—including agriculture and the circular economy—are seeking this financing to support the country’s sustainable development.

The benefits of using natural capital to measure social welfare

María Prados — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 00:44:21 +0000

The natural world possesses deep value that economic systems have been shunning for centuries. However, understanding and harnessing this natural capital is key to finding solutions to climate change. New Zealand is a prime example of how countries can integrate this concept within their business community and public institutions. In BBVA’s monographic study titled ‘Natural capital, curbing climate change’, you can learn more about the benefits and rewards of using natural capital as a means of improving social well-being.

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge award goes to Ceballos and Dirzo, for successfully quantifying the scale of the extinction of species brought about by human activity

Santiago Romero — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:12:38 +0000

The research undertaken by Mexican ecologists Gerardo Ceballos (National Autonomous University of Mexico) and Rodolfo Dirzo (Stanford University) in Latin America and Africa has shown that the current species extinction rates in many groups of organisms are much higher than throughout the preceding two million years, according to the committee of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology.

BBVA and energy firm Isagen agree to link 368 billion pesos in borrowings to sustainability targets

María Prados — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 12:34:46 +0000

BBVA in Colombia has reached an agreement with Isagen to convert long-term finance of 368 billion pesos to sustainable loans linked to compliance with an environmental indicator. The index measures carbon emissions intensity in relation to energy generation as part of a pledge made by the power generation company to help preserve a more sustainable world.

Garanti BBVA renews its ESG syndicated loan for 2024

david.corral — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 01:46:50 +0000

BBVA’s Turkish unit has just renewed its $415 million syndicated loan based on environmental, sustainability and governance (ESG) criteria.

Why will banks pay increasingly close attention to nature and water?

T012510 — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 05:17:35 +0000

The protection of nature and its sustainable management is a matter of the very survival of the planet. Moreover, a growing number of financial institutions are becoming aware that this field offers a real opportunity. The deployment of long-term strategies, the role of investors and shareholders, and increasingly stringent regulation paint a brighter picture.

Frontiers Award for incorporating the spatial dimension into ecology and applying it to the design of nature reserves and sustainable cities

bsanjuanbenito — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 11:56:33 +0000

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology has gone in this fourteenth edition to the ecologists Lenore Fahrig, Simon Levin and Steward Pickett for incorporating the spatial dimension into ecosystem research.The three award winners have made fundamental contributions both to the development of the theory and mathematics of spatial ecology, and to its application to the design of nature reserve areas, wildlife management plans, as well as road networks and sustainable cities, according to the jury.

These are the twelve endangered animals around the world in 2025

Alexandra Rojas Rodríguez — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 10:32:14 +0000

Human impact on ecosystems and climate change have caused numerous species to become extinct or endangered, resulting in irreparable damage to biodiversity. According to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, nearly 50,000 of the 172,620 species listed are endangered. These figures put the planet on the verge of what some scientists have called the sixth mass extinction.

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Biodiversity conservation is emerging as one of the key topics in the sustainability debate, according to BBVA Research

Óscar García — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 13:11:10 +0000

In the past five years, the social call to action to build a more sustainable world has spread at great speed, according to the BBVA Research report ‘Sustainability through the Lens of Big Data’. The study underscores that while climate change is still leading the conversation, biodiversity is emerging as the concept with the greatest growth —especially in Latin America— and it is expected to be one of the pillars that will mark the sustainability debate in the short and medium term.