Once again UniCredit will be taking part in the WWF initiative
to improve awareness of climate change.
UniCredit will be participating in the event for the sixth year running and becoming even more involved. In fact, on Saturday 23 March, from 8.30 to 9.30 p.m. the lights of 76 UniCredit buildings, including many of the Group's most prominent locations, in 14 different European countries, will be going off for Earth Hour, the biggest worldwide WWF event aimed at making people more aware of the climate change which is seriously threatening our planet.
The UniCredit buildings taking part in "Earth Hour 2013" will be:
In Italy:
Milan Garibaldi Porta Nuova - Italy's tallest building
Milan Bodio
Milan Cologno Monzese
Milan Sant'Elia
Genoa Via Dante 1
Bologna Via del Lavoro
Reggio Emilia Via Rivoluzione di ottobre 16
Rome Via Tupini
Rome Fochetti
Palermo Magliocco
Palermo Ruggero Settimo 42
Palermo Via Roma 183
In Germany:
Munich HypoHochhaus Arabellastrasse 12
In Austria:
Vienna Lassallestrasse 1 (ZP1)
Vienna Lassallestrasse 5 (ZP5)
Vienna Julius Tandler Platz (TZ)
Vienna Schottengasse 6 (SG6)
Vienna Hohenstaufengasse 6 (HO6)
Vienna Danube Tower 252 m (TD)
In Serbia:
Belgrade Airport City, Omladinskih brigada 88
In Slovakia:
Bratislava Šancová street 1/A in
In Bulgaria:
Sofia Central building - 7, Sveta Nedelya square
Sofia new HO building 14, Gueshevo str.
Sofia Aksakov - 8, Aksakov street
Sofia Ivan Vazov - 1, Ivan Vazov str.
Sofia Kaloyan - 3, Kaloyan str.
Ruse 5, Sveta troitza square
Varna 1, Petko Karavelov str.
Burgas 22, Aleksandrovska str.
Stara Zagora Stara Zagora - 126, Simeon Veliki Bld.
Plovdiv 4, Ivan Vazov str.
In Czech Republic:
Prague Náměstí republiky 3a
Prague Želetavská 1
In Hungary:
Budapest Szabadság square 5-6.
In Romania:
Bucharest Blvd. Expozitiei 1F
In Bosnia and Herzegovina:
Mostar UniCredit Bank Central building - Kardinala Stepinca bb
Sarajevo UniCredit Bank Central building - Zelenih beretki 24
In Russia:
Moscow Prechistenskaya embankment, 9
Moscow Boutikovsky lane, 9
Moscow 1-st Kazachy lane, 9/1
Moscow Zubovsky boulevard, 29
Moscow 1-st Tverskaya-Yamskaya street, 28/1
Moscow Krasnaya Presnya street, 21
Moscow Podsosensky lane, 3
Moscow Bolshaya Gruzinskaya street, 58/60
Moscow Komsomolsky avenue, 44
Moscow Leninsky avenue, 70/11
Moscow Ostozhenka street, 5
Saint Petersburg Fontanka embankment, 2/48
Saint Petersburg Moscovsky avenue, 192-194
Saint Petersburg Slavy avenue, 52/1
Saint Petersburg Novatorov avenue, 8
Saint Petersburg Efimova street, 4A
Krasnodar Stavropolskaya street, 41
Magnitogorsk Gertsena street, 6
Novosibirsk Maxima Gorkogo street, 53
Perm Sibirskaya street, 46
Samara Chapayevskaya street, 178
Sochi Gorkogo street, 26
Stavropol Dovatortsev street, 38A
Volgograd Novorossiyskaya street, 11
Rostov-on-Don Kirovsky avenue, 35/113
Kaluga Pushkina street, 1/20
In the Ukraine:
Kiev Boryspolska str., 2 А
Kiev Solomyanska str., 23 а
Odessa Pushkіnska str., 77
Sevastopol Lenіna str., 15 - Crimea
Yalta Lenіna str., 3 - Crimea
Donetsk Rozi Luksemburg str., 63
Lviv Mitskevicha sq., 10
Chernіvtsі Mіtskevicha str., 2
Khmelnytskiy Soborna str., 34
In Poland:
Żwirki i Wigury Head Office at 31
Warsaw Giełdowa street
Warsaw 53/57, Grzybowska street
In Latvia:
Riga Elizabetes street 63
Climate change is one of the most serious crises that the world has ever had to face. Its effects in 2012 were particularly alarming: the massive reduction of the Arctic summer pack ice and the increase in drought, floods and extreme meteorological phenomena devastated the planet, posing an increasingly violent and imminent threat to ecosystems and to the lives of millions of people. According to forecasts, 2013 is at risk of being one of the hottest years of all time. The responsibility for this dramatic scenario is mainly human, with global emissions constantly on the increase and a concentration of atmospheric CO2 that reached the record figure of 395 parts per million in January 2013.
By supporting Earth Hour 2013 UniCredit intends to offer a "visible" sign of its determination in the face of the enormous environmental changes in progress. A topic of responsibility has been addressed not only by environmental organizations but also by eminent scientists and important international bodies such as the World Bank, the International Energy Agency, the World Economic Forum and, last but not least, the President of the United States, Barack Obama who has put the fight against global warming among the top priorities of his second term in office.
UniCredit's participation in Earth Hour is part of a wider strategy of eco-sustainability. The bank has set itself a target of reducing emissions of CO2 into the environment by 30% by the year 2020. A first step towards this goal has been the building of the new bank headquarters using technologies which will result in energy savings of 22.5%, a 37.3% reduction in the consumption of drinking water in the buildings, 100% re-utilization of rainwater, 93% recycling of building site waste, use of 20.5% recycled and 41% locally produced construction materials.
UniCredit will also be publicizing the other initiatives of the WWF launched for the Earth Hour event on its website (www.unicreditgroup.eu). These include the virtual platform "I will if you will", accessible from the website www.wwf.it/oradellaterra. Here the general public, businesses and celebrities from all over the world will be able to take on or launch new "sustainability challenges" to stimulate people to change their daily habits and at the same time achieve important benefits for the environment.
Milan, 22 March 2013