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Balance Sheet at 31 December 2010 of BBVA

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• United N<strong>at</strong>ions Global Compact (since 2002) www.globalcompact.org<br />

• UNEP- FI (since 1998) www.unepfi.org<br />

• Equ<strong>at</strong>or Principles (since 2004) www.equ<strong>at</strong>or-principles.com<br />

• Carbon Disclosure Project (since 2004) www.cdproject.com<br />

• Principles for Responsible Investment (since 2008) www.unpri.org<br />

Environmental policy scope, governance and review<br />

This environmental policy is global in scope and affects all the activities undertaken by the Group, i.e., the<br />

banks and subsidiaries over which <strong>BBVA</strong> exerts effective control. The Corpor<strong>at</strong>e Responsibility and<br />

Reput<strong>at</strong>ion (CRR) Committee is tasked with coordin<strong>at</strong>ing environmental policy and overseeing compliance<br />

with it through an environmental management system. The members <strong>of</strong> the <strong>BBVA</strong> Group's Executive<br />

Committee also oversee correct compliance with this policy. To this end, its members make an effort to<br />

develop and oversee its implement<strong>at</strong>ion in the <strong>BBVA</strong> Group. This policy is reviewed and upd<strong>at</strong>ed periodically<br />

by the Corpor<strong>at</strong>e Responsibility and Reput<strong>at</strong>ion Committee.<br />

Main environmental actions in <strong>2010</strong><br />

The main environmental actions th<strong>at</strong> <strong>BBVA</strong> carried out in <strong>2010</strong> are as follows:<br />

• Meeting each <strong>of</strong> the targets <strong>of</strong> the Global Eco-Efficiency Plan 2008-2012, designed to minimize<br />

<strong>BBVA</strong>’s direct environmental impacts, and which has been alloc<strong>at</strong>ed a budget <strong>of</strong> €19 million. The<br />

Plan will involve an annual saving <strong>of</strong> €1.5 million, as a result <strong>of</strong> efficient use <strong>of</strong> n<strong>at</strong>ural resources.<br />

The Plan’s goals per employee are as follows:<br />

- A 20% reduction in <strong>BBVA</strong>'s carbon emissions<br />

- A 10% reduction in paper consumption<br />

- A 7% reduction in w<strong>at</strong>er consumption<br />

- A 2% reduction in energy consumption<br />

- 20% <strong>of</strong> employees to work in ISO 14001 certified buildings<br />

- LEED Gold certific<strong>at</strong>ion for the new headquarters in Madrid, Mexico and Paraguay<br />

• Improved environmental risk management systems in project finance (Equ<strong>at</strong>or Principles), and in<br />

determining borrower’s credit pr<strong>of</strong>iles (Ecor<strong>at</strong>ing)<br />

• Leadership in financing <strong>of</strong> renewable energy projects intern<strong>at</strong>ionally<br />

• Support for major intern<strong>at</strong>ional initi<strong>at</strong>ives to fight against clim<strong>at</strong>e change. In <strong>2010</strong>, the <strong>BBVA</strong> Group<br />

subscribed the following intern<strong>at</strong>ional environmental initi<strong>at</strong>ives: CDP W<strong>at</strong>er Disclosure Project,<br />

Cancun Communiqué and the Global Investor St<strong>at</strong>ement on Clim<strong>at</strong>e Change.<br />

• Development <strong>of</strong> ambitious environmental sponsorship programs, particularly through the <strong>BBVA</strong><br />

Found<strong>at</strong>ion. Worth noting are the <strong>BBVA</strong> Found<strong>at</strong>ion Frontiers <strong>of</strong> Knowledge awards in the Ecology,<br />

Conserv<strong>at</strong>ion Biology and Clim<strong>at</strong>e Change c<strong>at</strong>egories, each provided with €400,000. Moreover, in<br />

<strong>2010</strong> the <strong>BBVA</strong> Found<strong>at</strong>ion, in partnership with CSIC, implemented a scholarship program and a<br />

public<strong>at</strong>ion rel<strong>at</strong>ing to the Malaspina <strong>2010</strong> expedition, which seeks to assess the impact <strong>of</strong> global<br />

change on the oceans and study its biodiversity.<br />

• Launch <strong>of</strong> an internal communic<strong>at</strong>ion plan within the framework <strong>of</strong> the 2008-2012 Global Eco-<br />

Efficiency Plan in order to raise environmental awareness among all <strong>BBVA</strong> Group employees.<br />

As <strong>of</strong> <strong>December</strong> <strong>31</strong>, <strong>2010</strong>, there were no items in <strong>BBVA</strong>’s financial st<strong>at</strong>ements th<strong>at</strong> warranted inclusion in the<br />

environmental inform<strong>at</strong>ion document set out in the Ministry <strong>of</strong> the Economy Order d<strong>at</strong>ed October 8, 2001.<br />

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