"The water is mostly used for sanitary purposes and does not represent a significant factor in CaixaBank's environmental management. However, measures are being in-troduced to reduce consumption, such as the installation of self-closing taps and the replacement of toilet cisterns by others which use less water and have a double-flush mechanism. In unique buildings, the best technologies have been introduced to mi-nimise water consumption associated with the refrigeration processes. Our Data Pro-cessing Centres (with LEED gold and LEED silver certification, respectively) thus use cooling-free technology free cooling technology, which uses no water, and in the Barcelona corporate centre the evaporative cooling towers have been replaced by adiabatic towers, with much lower water consumption.

- 5.22 % reduction in water consumption compared to 2018(312,098 m3 consumed*1 by CaixaBank S.A.)

PROMOTING THE REUSE AND RECYCLING OF WASTE

In corporate buildings and throughout the branch network, there is selective waste collection (mostly non-hazardous waste) and initiatives are continuously being imple-mented with the aim of minimising waste generation. Examples include the launch of the project to reduce plastics for water consumption in our branches, recycling bank cards and distributing biodegradable cards. From 2013, the Integral Plan for the Revaluation of Technological Equipment has pro-moted the transfer of electronic equipment to non-profit organisations, favouring the circular economy. In 2020, the Plan was extended to office furniture."

From page 174 of the report

*1 Estimate based on a sample of corporate buildings and branches in the corporate network."