Insights
Helping clients navigate the sustainable finance landscape
Nordea Sustainable Finance Advisory's Juho Maalahti is eager to help companies and investors tackle new challenges in the fast-developing world of sustainable finance.
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Sustainability is about balancing the environmental, societal and governance factors of development to ensure that we meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
Corporate insights
Sustainable finance expert Isabella Frenning Willis has her eye on the targets
Isabella Frenning Willis, Nordea Sustainable Finance Advisory's Denmark lead, is focused on helping companies select material and ambitious targets for their sustainability-linked loans and bonds.
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Insights
ECB calls for mandatory EU Green Bond standard
The European Commission this summer released its proposed voluntary standard for European green bonds. Now the European Central Bank argues that the standard should be made mandatory. Nordea’s Sustainable Finance Advisory team takes a closer look at the ECB’s view on risks, benefits and practical implementation.
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Insights
Science Based Targets initiative launches new net-zero corporate standard
Net-zero commitments from companies have taken off in recent years. Now, the Science Based Targets initiative has launched a new science-based certification for those corporate targets. Can it make net-zero pledges more credible?
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What did COP26 achieve? A Nordea climate specialist’s key takeaways
COP26 turned out to be the net zero COP, says Nordea climate specialist Stefan Henningsson, who recently returned from the UN climate summit.
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Markets and investment
How to align your investments with the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Have you thought about how your investments can have an impact on real-world challenges? Nordea’s latest ESG Investments publication provides a practical guide to sustainability-themed investing.
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Sustainable banking
Frank Vang-Jensen joins United Nations sustainability council
Nordea’s President and CEO Frank Vang-Jensen has been invited to join the UNEP FI Leadership Council. UNEP FI is a partnership between the UN and the global financial sector to mobilise private sector finance for sustainable development.
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Business growth
Positive trends on the horizon as companies shift toward sustainable business
As society transitions towards a sustainable future, Nordic companies are proactively adapting their business strategies. According to the latest Nordea Business Insights report, Swedish companies are progressing the most in this area.
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Sustainable banking
Nordea active in making major Asian companies withdraw from coal-fired power plant projects
Nordea has been the initiator and driving force behind a collaboration of 25 investors urging companies to withdraw from the construction of a coal-fired power plant in Vietnam. Several leading Asian companies have now announced an end to future coal projects.
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Sustainable banking
“We support our customers to make the transition happen”
How to make economic development and sustainability go hand in hand was a much debated question at this year’s COP26. Our top management rounded off Nordea’s participation in the conference as hosts for an event with focus on the financial sector as a driver of the green transition.
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Insights
Raising awareness of sustainable financing options at COP26
Sustainable finance experts from Nordea, Ericsson and Credit Agricole CIB gathered at the virtual COP26 Backdoor to discuss the upsurge in sustainability-linked debt.
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Sustainable banking
Finance at COP26 – keeping the chance of 1.5°C alive
Nordea’s climate and ESG experts Stefan Henningsson and Veronica Palmgren are reporting from COP26 where Finance Day was bearing evidence of how the financial sector is expected to consider the climate in each and every decision made.
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