HSBC Climate Partnership

The HSBC Climate Partnership (HCP) is a groundbreaking, five-year partnership between HSBC and WWF, The Climate Group, Earthwatch Institute and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. HSBC's US$100 million investment – the largest ever corporate donation towards environment to these four organizations aims to combat the urgent threat of climate change by inspiring action by individuals, businesses and governments worldwide.

Launched in May 2007, the HCP will:

• Help to protect four of the world's major rivers – the Amazon, Ganges, Thames, and Yangtze – from the impacts of climate change, benefiting the 450 million people who rely on them.
• Make some of the world's great cities – Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York and Shanghai – cleaner and greener, which the partners will promote as models for the world;
• 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