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The EIB Group promotes Corporate Responsibility through its mission and activities in the service of the European Union, through the way it implements these and through its internal management.
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The promotion of sustainable, competitive and secure sources of energy is a key policy objective of the European Union. For this reason, the European Investment Bank has also made lending to support Europe’s energy needs a top priority. The EIB activities in the energy sector support:
Within its Corporate Operational Plan (COP) the Bank has established challenging targets to drive its contribution to energy lending. The Bank has lent EUR 11.5bn in 2011 for projects belonging to at least one of the following priority areas:
The EIB plays a major and growing role in providing finance to the renewable energy sector. In the past five years its annual lending increased more than tenfold to reach EUR 6.2bn in 2010. This film illustrates the EIB’s financing for renewable energy as one of the pillars of the Bank’s climate action.
Promoting sustainable, competitive and secure energy for Europe is one of the European Union’s strategic priorities. As the bank of the European Union, the EIB has reflected this by tripling its financing operations in this area between 2006 and 2010 (from EUR 4bn to EUR 14.6bn). The Bank finances investments supporting the implementation of EU strategic priorities.
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