Green Purchases

Intesa Sanpaolo's attention to the environment, enshrined in its Environmental and Energy Policy, is also reflected in the purchase of "green products", with low energy consumption and lower environmental impact, as further detailed in the pages relating to direct environmental impacts.
It is the Bank's responsibility to commit itself to sustainable development by rejecting waste, adopting solutions that ensure a progressive improvement in efficiency, constant attention to the environmental consequences of our choices and favouring supply systems that do not generate negative impacts on the environment. The commitment to reducing its ecological footprint is testified, among other things, by the implementation in Italy of an Environmental and Energy Management System certified by an international third party compliant with ISO 14001 and ISO 50001 standards for the management of processes and environmental and energy performance relating to all Intesa Sanpaolo branches and buildings.

Paper

For a company like Intesa Sanpaolo, paper is a resource on which particular attention is paid, also expressed through a specific dedicated chapter in the Green Banking Procurement Rules.

To promote these practices with regard to paper, the Intesa Sanpaolo Group undertakes to use paper and paper-based products with a higher content of recycled fibres, mostly post-consumer.

Compared with 2024, the use of paper fell by 10.1%, with an increase in the purchase of recycled paper by foreign subsidiaries, confirming the Group's increasing attention to environmental impacts. Thanks to dematerialization initiatives, in 2025 approximately 1,018 tonnes of paper were saved, corresponding to 3,762 tonnes of CO₂ avoided and a theoretical saving of €5,4 million.

The per-employee figure (34.4 kg in 2025 vs 37.3 kg in 2024) also confirms the increased awareness among the Group’s employees regarding paper usage.

Stationery products

Stationery can have a significant environmental impact. In order to support "circular" production models, the Intesa Sanpaolo Group undertakes to purchase, where possible and available, stationery products that, in addition to compliance with national regulations, are sustainable, considering the protection and preservation of the environment as a priority when purchasing office supplies.

The products for which the Intesa Sanpaolo Group is committed to responsible policies and choices are:

Paper economic material (notepads, notepads, folders and binders)
Economic material with the presence of wood
Ballpoint pens and highlighters
Stamps

In 2025, purchases of eco-friendly stationery reached approximately 63.0 tonnes of sustainable office supplies, including 59.2 tonnes of paper-based materials (notebooks, sticky notes, folders, etc.), 3.0 tonnes of ballpoint pens, and the remainder consisting of highlighters, stamps made from recycled materials, and office supplies containing sustainably sourced wood.

Toner

The Intesa Sanpaolo Group undertakes to purchase, where possible and available, "regenerated" cartridges which, in addition to compliance with national regulations, are sustainable and have quality and print yield equivalent to the original cartridges and toner inks and powders free of certain hazardous substances. In 2025 toner consumption decreased by 4.44% in line with the reduction in paper consumption.

Electricity and renovation of buildings with environmental criteria

In addition to energy efficiency measures aimed at reducing its environmental impact, the Intesa Sanpaolo Group has committed, where possible, to generating electricity (entirely for self-consumption) through the installation of photovoltaic systems and the purchase of electricity from renewable sources.

In 2025, the Intesa Sanpaolo Group in Italy, Croatia, Slovakia, and Moldova self-generated and self-consumed 1,427 MWh of electricity, saving approximately €468,000 on electricity purchases and avoiding 714 tonnes of CO₂ emissions. In addition, in Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, and Moldova, it generated a further 89 MWh of electricity that was fed into the grid.

Furthermore, starting from 2024, Intesa Sanpaolo signed two Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) for the supply of approximately 50 GWh from new dedicated photovoltaic plants in Italy. CIB Bank also signed a five-year contract in July 2024 to meet its electricity demand in Hungary through photovoltaic plants (which in 2025 covered 27% of its electricity consumption).

Several international banks are strongly committed to increasing their share of clean energy: in addition to the Egyptian subsidiary Bank of Alexandria, which has now reached 100% green energy procurement thanks to the purchase of i-REC certificates, the Hungarian bank CIB and the Serbian Banca Intesa Beograd have also achieved significant results, including through fleet electrification and the use of 100% green energy in their operations.

Last updated 24 April 2026 at 16:30:47