It is noted that the Members of the Board of Directors, acknowledging that the principles for sustainable development constitute a fundamental prerequisite for sound entrepreneurship, are interested and make the appropriate decisions in order to develop strategies aiming to continually improve the Bank’s environmental performance, the reduction of its environmental footprint, the support of green entrepreneurship, the management of environmental-climate risk, as well as the conservation of biodiversity, in order for the Bank to contribute to tackling the major social and environmental problems facing our planet.