Scotiabank supports environmental initiatives by not-for-profit organizations. For example, in 2007:

• We began a five-year platinum-level sponsorship of the Pembina Institute to implement Greenlearning.ca, an online learning and research centre designed for teachers and students in Grades 1 through 12, focusing on the issue of climate change.
• We committed to a new five-year gift to the Tides Canada Foundation, a unique national public foundation which supports innovative projects in the areas of environmental sustainability and progressive social change. Our $100,000 contribution will help create a permanent conservation endowment fund that will help preserve British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest and also benefit First Nations communities.
• We continued our annual support of World Wildlife Fund, providing a $15,000 donation directed to their Endangered Species Recovery Fund. This project supports the research and education efforts of scientists and conservation specialists who are working to recover some of the more than 500 Canadian species currently listed at being “at risk.”
• In Peru, Scotiabank has been a supporter of the innovative Children’s Lands (Tierra de Niňos) since 2005. This international non-profit organization promotes environmental stewardship by teaching children to care for plots of land of one square metre or more. Currently 4,000 Peruvian children oversee more than 300 hectares of land in ten states. In 2007, Scotabank donated US$20,000 and the Bank has pledged US$50,000 more to help the project involve 20,000 children in restoring 4,000 hectares by 2010.