Protection and restoration of natural capital

The Intesa Sanpaolo Group, aware of the importance of nature and ecosystem protection, has integrated natural capital and biodiversity into the Bank’s governance documents, starting from the Code of Ethics, where protection of nature and biodiversity are taken into account both in terms of direct and indirect environmental impacts resulting from the Bank’s activities.

In line with the commitment defined in the 2022-2025 Business Plan, Intesa Sanpaolo adopted a specific biodiversity policy aimed at facilitating and supporting financing that seeks to strengthen and/or safeguard biodiversity and nature.

Consistently, the Group has launched several initiatives to support companies in their ecological transition, including the offer of medium-long term loans such as the S-Loan Progetti Green, which applies, among others, to initiatives relating natural capital such as biodiversity, pollution prevention and control, sustainable management of natural resources, circular economy and water efficiency. 

In 2025, the Group continued to promote the Think Forestry programme (launched in November 2023) to accompany client companies on the path of environmental transition, with the objective of safeguarding and enhancing natural capital. 

Preliminary activities were completed in 2025 to enable the launch of a new applied research aimed at measuring the level of biodiversity in urban environments using a robotic system equipped with various bioacoustic and visual sensors. Finally, with reference to Blue Natural Capital or Blue Economy, the Group supports the One Ocean Foundation, mainly involved in research and development projects for the protection of the oceans.