Our approach

Responsible banking is part of Santander Bank Polska’s business strategy which is based on three pillars. One of them concerns environmental issues. In 2019, the priority for us was ″green finance″, i.e. development and implementation of a climate strategy, which assumes, among other things, financing climate protection, a package of green investments and internal actions to make us a ″green bank″.

We feel obliged to address the biggest challenges facing the society in which we do business. We are aware of the growing role of financial institutions in the transition to a low-carbon economy. That is why we support and accompany our clients in the process of energy transformation, providing them with funds to finance their activities.

• We believe that we can support our customers by helping them move towards an environmentally friendly (″green″) economy. That’s why we want to help raise or provide EUR 120 billion between 2019 and 2025 and EUR 220 billion between 2019 and 2030 to finance green projects to mitigate negative climate change.
• We believe that combating global warming requires reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the footprint we leave in the environment. That’s why we want 100% of our electricity consumption to come from renewable sources in all our locations, wherever possible – we want to achieve this by 2025. We also want to phase out the use of disposable plastic products in our branches and headquarters by 2021.
• We are committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2020. That is, we will compensate for our own carbon emissions by financing solutions that support CO₂ capture and neutralisation and investments in renewable energy.