The BBVA Foundation lays out its commitment to the defense of our planet
This video, screened during the inaugural edition of the BBVA Sustainable Finance Forum on 9 May, 2018, presents the BBVA Foundation’s response to two of the great environmental challenges of our time: climate change and the global loss of biodiversity.
23 May, 2018
Aware of the scale of these threats to our shared future, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards were the first international accolades to recognize and train a spotlight on those supplying the knowledge needed to confront them. Two of the categories of these awards, conceived to recognize and reward excellence in fundamental fields of science, are devoted to research in the areas of Climate Change and Ecology and Conservation Biology so essential to the protection of life on our planet.
As well as recognizing environmental research through the Frontiers Awards, the BBVA Foundation has for more than a decade supported practical actions and awareness raising through its Biodiversity Conservation Awards. With these two families of awards and its sustained engagement with research, the BBVA Foundation seeks to focus the attention of policymakers, economic agents and citizens at large on the scientific leaders at the forefront of the fight against the two great environmental challenges of the 21st century.