Unicaja reaffirms its commitment to the environment and to contributing to the creation of a green economy as one of the priorities of its Strategic Plan 2025-2027. Within this line of action and in its interest to continue promoting sustainable development, the financial institution has renewed the collaboration agreement it has had for three years with Fundación Biodiversidad, which depends on the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge.
The aim of this agreement is to support and facilitate the advance of aid from the Next Generation EU Funds, as well as other subsidies granted and managed by this public body at national level, and to offer complementary financing to develop projects linked to the promotion of the bioeconomy, biodiversity research or the renaturalization of urban environments. In short, the aim is to promote initiatives that promote transformation at all levels: economic, cultural and social.
In this way, the financial institution offers economic guarantees to the recipients of these grants, allowing them to receive them in advance through the Fundación Biodiversidad. It also undertakes to study and analyze, on a preferential basis, complementary financing operations to complete the subsidized business and investment projects.
Likewise, it offers its clients the advantages of its specific products and services, mainly aimed at channeling and processing Next Generation EU Funds, with the objective of responding to their financing needs in a reduced period of time.
For its part, Fundación Biodiversidad informs the beneficiaries of these grants and, where appropriate, puts them in contact with Unicaja's commercial network to expedite their processing.
Comprehensive strategy
In this way, Unicaja reaffirms its commitment to sustainability and the protection of biodiversity through a comprehensive strategy to promote responsible finance, environmental management and the conservation of the natural environment. To this end, it incorporates ESG criteria into its business model and promotes projects aimed at reducing its carbon footprint and promoting energy efficiency.
Unicaja not only contributes in this way to the promotion of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda, but also reinforces its role as an active agent in the transition to a greener economy.
Fundación Biodiversidad, created in December 1998, is a public body belonging to the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, which works to promote a change in the socioeconomic model that takes into account the services provided by nature and the importance of preserving them.
