The HSBC Climate Partnership

HSBC has created a five-year, US$100 million partnership to respond to the urgent threat of climate change world-wide with the support of The Climate Group, Earthwatch Institute, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and WWF.

The HSBC Climate Partnership is a ground breaking five-year programme on climate change to inspire action by individuals, businesses and governments world-wide.

It will:

• help some of the world’s great cities – Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York and Shanghai – respond to the challenge of climate change;
• create ‘climate champions’ worldwide who will undertake field research and bring back valuable knowledge and experience to their communities;
• conduct the largest ever field experiment on the world’s forests to measure carbon and the effects of climate change; and
• help protect some of the world’s major rivers – including the Amazon, Ganges, Thames, and Yangtze – from the impacts of climate change, benefiting the 450 million people who rely on them.