The research undertaken by Mexican ecologists Gerardo Ceballos (National Autonomous University of Mexico) and Rodolfo Dirzo (Stanford University) in Latin America and Africa has shown that the current species extinction rates in many groups of organisms are much higher than throughout the preceding two million years, according to the committee of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology.

As part of its strategic commitment to sustainability and inclusive growth, Garanti BBVA continues to host its series of events around the theme 'Sustainable Future in Exports.' The fourth installment of the series—previously held in Istanbul, Gaziantep, and İzmir—unfolded this year in Bursa.

BBVA employees have set up a working group to study and encourage the inclusion of people with disabilities in the workplace at the bank.

Amaya López-Durán Viani, head of the industrial sector observatory at BBVA's Sustainability area, analyzes in this article originally published in Cinco Días, the decarbonization of the heavy road transport sector.

BBVA Chair Carlos Torres Vila today advocated for "involving the end consumer in the energy transition" in order to step up decarbonization. Speaking on a panel at the Davos meeting hosted by the World Economic Forum (WEF), he called for "coherent and consistent policies" that go beyond the supply side to encourage consumers themselves to contribute to this transition.

More than 1,200 BBVA employees have taken part in activities related to financial inclusion and literacy and environmental protection in Argentina, with the initiatives having taken place in various communities across the country.

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Climate Change category has gone to five European scientists for their analysis of Antarctic and Greenland ice samples to prove the “fundamental coupling” between greenhouse gas concentrations and rising air temperatures across the planet over the past 800,000 years.

The grants went to the children of micro-entrepreneur clients of Bancamía from all over the country, who will now be able to study at university thanks to the resilience, discipline, creativity and strength shown by their parents.

This is the first agribusiness deal where one of the signatories refers its own suppliers to the bank as candidate borrowers.

BBVA in Colombia has reached an agreement with Isagen to convert long-term finance of 368 billion pesos to sustainable loans linked to compliance with an environmental indicator. The index measures carbon emissions intensity in relation to energy generation as part of a pledge made by the power generation company to help preserve a more sustainable world.