What is ESG?
ESG is used as a model for investing and screening. ESG stands for Environmental, Social and Governance. This is also called sustainability in many cases.
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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 finance
Sustainable finance markets: Record highs so far in 2023
With the latest quarterly data now in, the Nordic bond market looks set to continue its unbroken trend of sustainable volume growth for another year. Supported by record H1 sustainable volume, the slightly reduced Q3 figures were enough to take Nordic sustainable bond supply to a new year-to-Q3 high.
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Sustainable finance
Nordea sustainability expert: ‘We have to make sure everyone is with us’
Meet Catrine Birkevold Liem, Nordea Sustainable Finance Advisory’s country lead for Norway. She reflects on banks’ role in enabling a real sustainable transition, as well as challenges, trends and game changers in the field.
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Sustainable banking
Nordea sets sector targets for power production and agriculture
The new sector targets are important tools in reducing carbon emissions across Nordea’s lending portfolio and in supporting our customers in two sectors that are crucial for a net-zero future.
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Sustainability
What is ESG?
ESG is used as a model for investing and screening. ESG stands for Environmental, Social and Governance. This is also called sustainability in many cases.
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Active ownership
What is active ownership?
Active ownership is when shareholders engage in a company they have invested in to influence the company’s strategy and actions. It is a method often used in responsible investing to directly influence a company’s decisions.
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Sustainable finance
EU Green Bond Standard – Slowly getting there
EU lawmakers have approved the final version of the European Green Bond Standard, the first-of-its-kind voluntary standard linked to the EU Taxonomy. We look at some of the challenges with the new regulation and how to overcome them.
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Sustainable banking
Nordea best ranked among Nordic peers in Sustainalytics’ ESG Risk Ratings
Morningstar Sustainalytics’ ESG Risk Ratings are considered by the global investor community to be the most important assessment of a company’s management of environmental, social and governance risks.
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Sustainable finance
'Blue bonds': New ICMA guidance aims to bolster credibility and activity
Blue bonds offer a financial mechanism to address pressing challenges relating to marine conservation and sustainable resource management. Practitioner’s guidance recently published by ICMA aims to support issuers, investors and underwriters interested in “blue” formats in order to catalyse investment in the sustainable marine economy.
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Sustainable finance
A maturing Nordic sustainable bond market: lessons learned and expectations for the future
Sustainable bonds further solidified their position as a legitimate part of the global bond market during 2023. While we are seeing greater alignment in sustainable bond practices across regions, there is much to be learned from the Nordic market in particular.
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Sustainable banking
Almost 1,000 dialogues with companies to address ESG issues
In 2022 Nordea’s ESG experts engaged in nearly 1,000 dialogues with companies in the name of our investment funds. The dialogues were held to address issues such as climate change, human rights and governance.
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Sustainability
Empowering our workforce: Nordea launches bespoke ESG training curriculum
Nordea’s Large Corporates & Institutions unit continues to invest in building the ESG expertise and skills of staff to help accelerate the transition. A new modular sustainability training programme allows employees to tailor the curriculum to their specific needs and roles.
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Meet our talents
Summer interns with keen interest in sustainability gain valuable hands-on experience in LC&I ESG
This summer, eight talented interns joined us in our cross-Nordic ESG unit within Large Corporates & Institutions (LC&I). In this blog some of the students tell about their motivations, expectations, valuable learnings and eyeopeners during their internship with hands-on experiences and insight to a highly topical and important area like ESG.
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