ESG
Value-based investing important to Nordic investors
A Nordic survey shows that it’s the opportunity to invest in accordance with one’s own values that is most important when private investors choose to invest sustainably.
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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.
Sustainable banking
The Paris Agreement for Nature – COP15 and the outcomes
A welcomed achievement of the meeting in Montreal was the adoption of the Global Biodiversity Framework and the associated targets, goals and financing. What is now important is the rapid and consistent progress in implementing what has been agreed.
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Sustainable finance
Social impact is back in focus. Here’s how to translate it into financing
When it comes to financing structures focused on social impact, the vast majority currently incorporate gender diversity targets as the social KPI, in part due to the availability of established and comparable data. Looking ahead, we expect a wider range of social targets to be reported on and included in sustainable financing where material.
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Sustainable finance
Ability or ambition: How to speed up progress on biodiversity
We must overcome commitment fatigue and resource constraints if we are to make meaningful progress in understanding and limiting biodiversity risks, argues Nordea Sustainable Finance Advisory’s David Ray.
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Sustainable finance
Biodiversity: The next frontier in sustainable finance
The World Bank’s recent issuance of a sustainable development bond raising awareness for biodiversity highlights investors’ growing interest in the issue. Biodiversity loss is directly linked to climate change, both reinforcing each other, with their interaction amplifying the risk of reaching planetary tipping points.
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Entrepreneurship
Tracegrow aims for the international market with its circular economy innovation
Can battery waste be turned into a profitable and sustainable business? In 2012, this question was an inspiration for the founders of Tracegrow, a company which started developing fertiliser for agricultural needs from the clean and recyclable chemical elements of batteries.
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Sustainability
Nordea comments on NGO report on Europe’s 25 largest banks approach to climate and biodiversity
The NGO ShareAction has released a report on the climate and biodiversity practices of Europe’s 25 largest banks with Nordea included in their ranking.
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Nordea On Your Mind
A holiday read: Best of NOYM 2022
In the latest Nordea On Your Mind, we take a moment to pause, zoom out and look back at some of the key themes that emerged in 2022, another eventful year.
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Sustainability
How profit and sustainability can go hand in hand
Leaders from the worlds of business, government and international development gathered at the Nordea Sustainability Summit to discuss the biggest challenge and greatest investment opportunity of our time – saving the planet.
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ESG
Balancing the dilemmas of ESG
What can corporates do to balance the risks and opportunities that come with the transition to a new, sustainable economy? CEO Mads Nipper, SVP Minna Aila and CEO Frank Vang-Jensen discuss.
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Nordea On Your Mind
All you need to know about the energy crisis
Europe’s ongoing energy crisis is in focus in the latest Nordea On Your Mind podcast.
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Nordea On Your Mind
What will it take to push the global energy transition forward?
Professor Tomas Kåberger of Chalmers University of Technology has unique insights into the energy system from academic, industrial and regulatory perspectives. In this interview he discusses the paramount driver for renewable energy: reduced cost.
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