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Environmental initiatives
Human influence in particular is responsible for climate change: Any form of energy use from fossil fuels, such as
electricity, heating and hot water consumption, and of course the mobility sector, cause carbon dioxide (CO2).
CO2 is considered the main cause of climate change, because it absorbs heat radiation from the earth and thus
heats the atmosphere. At RBI, this problem is being addressed by means of various projects and memberships.
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Raiffeisen Bank International | Sustainability Report 2018
From April to October 2018, Raiffeisenbank Austria
d.d. in Croatia supported ecological work to clean
the seabed and rivers in partnership with the diving
club AdriatiCro Zagreb.
As part of this project, the following six ornithological
habitats were cleaned up: the mouth of the Vuka
River (Danube River), Slavonski Brod (Save River),
Jadro beach on the island of Vir (Adriatic Sea),
Svežanj Bay in the town of Kostrena (Adriatic Sea),
Oštro-Kraljevica cape (Adriatic Sea), and the Savica
neighborhood of Zagreb.
There are still around 700 species of wild bees in
Austria. A wild bee pollinates up to 5,000 flowers a
day, making a huge contribution to the diversity of plant
life. Together with the Austrian nature conservation
association Naturschutzbund Österreich, Raiffeisen
Bausparkasse Gesellschaft m.b.H. initiated a project
to protect wild bees as part of its annual construction
and housing campaign. During the two-month
promotional period, 800 nest sites for wild bees
were created for each new land-secured building
society loan concluded.
This resulted in the creation of 627,200 nest sites.
Raiffeisen Bausparkasse rounded this figure up to 750,000. The nest sites are located in fifteen large wooden
nesting aids, also known as “bee hotels”. The nesting aids were placed in flower-rich areas throughout Austria.