In line with its customers’ financial needs as well as their climate and environment expectations, Banque Raiffeisen offers, exclusively in Luxembourg, sustainable Visa cards that allow you to plant trees.
From March 2021, Raiffeisen will launch an innovative initiative to further highlight sustainability in its strategy and products, by introducing a new and unique range of sustainable Visa credit cards in Luxembourg. By using these new cards, Raiffeisen clients and members will make a long-term and tangible contribution to the reforestation efforts in Luxembourg and Bangladesh.
HOW DOES IT WORK ?
For every 200th transaction made with one of these new Visa credit cards, Banque Raiffeisen, in partnership with the foundation Hëllef fir d’Natur from natur&ëmwelt and the NGO Friendship Luxembourg, commits to planting a tree. The objective is ambitious: to plant at least 15,000 trees each year in Luxembourg and Bangladesh. This initiative allows Banque Raiffeisen to make an ecological contribution in Luxembourg, without neglecting the global problem. In Bangladesh, priority is given to the planting of mangroves, which are of vital importance in a country battling to stay above water. More generally, this action also aims to reduce CO2 and to fight the negative effects of climate change in a global way.
To increase the impact of the operation and the number of trees to be planted, each of the more than 40,000 OPERA members of the Luxembourg cooperative bank can make a personal contribution by exchanging 1,000 OPERA points for the planting of an additional tree.
HOW TO GET A SUSTAINABLE CARD ?
For Banque Raiffeisen customers, these Visa credit cards can be ordered by logging into R-Net online banking. People who are not yet Raiffeisen customers can order them by opening an account via the online contact form. The new sustainable Visa credit cards have a new design alluding to biodiversity: a butterfly wing, a parrot feather, a flower or an agave. Available in Basic, Classic, Gold and Platinum, they offer many advantages and are adapted to individual needs.
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