ESG

ESG stands for environmental, social and governance, and refers to the three key factors widely used to evaluate how companies, countries and other actors contribute to sustainable development

Sustainable banking

Understanding social impact investing

Social impact investing is when you as an investor choose your investments with the intention of generating measurable, beneficial social effects in addition to financial gains.

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Sustainable banking

Nordea maintains position in S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook

Nordea has once again been recognised for its commitment to sustainability by being included in the S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook 2025. This marks the third consecutive year that we have earned this distinction, placing us among the top 15% of the world’s most sustainable banks.

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Sustainable banking

Saving with sustainable focus: How green is green?

Funds that focus on sustainability – what does that really mean? How can investment funds be sustainable and who sets the requirements? More and more people are showing interest in this form of investment and there is regulation in place to support it. Get a quick overview.

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Sustainable finance

Corporate treasuries see sustainable financing on the rise

Sustainability has taken root in corporate treasuries, and the focus is expected to increase in the coming years, according to our annual Treasury Survey for 2024.

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Sustainable banking

What is sustainable financing?

Sustainable financing is a form of financing that takes environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into account when setting criteria for the funding.

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Sustainability

Biodiversity and business: Our expert on the emerging trends

Anna-Karin Modin-Edman is Nordea’s resident biodiversity expert. She explains why the theme is climbing corporate agendas, the main challenges and how companies are tackling them.

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Active ownership

How we use our shareholder impact to promote labour rights

Nordea has extensively engaged for several years with many known consumer brands to improve labour rights at the companies. Recent examples are Tesla, Starbucks and Amazon.

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Active ownership

Award-winning methane engagement expands reach and impact

Nordea Asset Management has for several years been driving an investor collaboration engaging with oil and gas companies and more recently utilities on reducing their methane emissions. The initiative now includes 65 oil and gas companies and utilities.

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Active ownership

More than 1,000 dialogues with companies on their sustainable transition

In 2023 Nordea’s responsible investment experts engaged in more than 1,000 dialogues with companies in the name of our investment funds. The aim of the dialogues was to discuss how the companies work with topics such as climate change, human rights and governance.

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Markets LC&I

“It’s quite intense, very rewarding and just great, professionally and socially” – ESG interns in LC&I tell

(ESG #2) Fully dedicated to help drive the change towards a greener society, we’re committed to supporting our corporate clients’ transition to a sustainable and low-carbon economy. With ESG at the core of everything we do, it’s a delight and inspiration to have nine summer interns, equally passionate about ESG and sustainability, joining us in LC&I ESG in Stockholm - and learn that they’re having a great time; learning a lot, on many levels, professionally and personally.

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Corporate insights

ESG ratings update shows continued progress for Nordic companies

Nordea Equities' ESG Research team has published the annual update of its ESG ratings based on around 300 companies' published 2023 data. ESG remains firmly in focus for Nordic companies, although momentum has slowed in some metrics.

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Markets LC&I

ESG internship: “Exciting blend of learning, collaboration, and fun” – this is why

(ESG #1) With sustainability at the core of everything we do at Nordea, we’re pleased to have eight talented students joining us as summer interns in our ESG unit in Large Corporates & Institutions (LC&I). Tag along and hear about their tasks, learnings, and team work, not to mention the social aspects of hanging out with fellow interns and colleagues, and having fun.

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