The HSBC Climate Partnership

The HSBC Climate Partnership is a groundbreaking, five-year partnership between HSBC and The Climate Group, Earthwatch Institute, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and WWF. HSBC's US$100 million investment – the largest ever corporate donation to each of these four world-class environmental charities – aims to combat the urgent threat of climate change by inspiring action by individuals, businesses and governments worldwide.

Partners

Working with these partners, and engaging its 312,000 staff members, HSBC hopes to counter climate change impacts for people, forests, water and cities. The programme has significant targets and will:

• Create cleaner, greener cities in Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York and Shanghai, which we will promote as models for the world;
• Create 'climate champions' worldwide, who will undertake research and bring back valuable knowledge and experience to their communities;
• Conduct the largest ever field experiment on the long-term effects of climate change and how it will affect the world's forests;
• Protect some of the world's major rivers and the livelihoods of people who rely on them.

Scientists from 100 nations agree that global warming is already changing the world, bringing increasing vulnerability of the world's freshwater systems and leading to social and economic consequences. Action now may help avert potential catastrophe; doing nothing is not an option.

Click on the tabs above to learn more about our environmental charity partners, how they will work together and the projects they will be undertaking.

Investing in Nature

HSBC has previously partnered with Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Earthwatch Institute and WWF under a five-year programme, called Investing in Nature, which concluded in 2006. To read more about this programme, click here.