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 finance
In recent years, the world's largest jewellery brand, Pandora, has taken significant steps on its sustainability journey, with Nordea by its side as a financial partner.
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Active ownership
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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Asset management
Nordea Asset Management (NAM) is honored to announce the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), one of the largest public pension plans in the world, has selected Nordea’s Global Stars Equity Strategy to manage $450 million in global equity investments.
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Nordea On Your Mind
Nordic corporates have bet big and succeeded in sustainability – Can they keep it up? Hear Johan Trocmé, Viktor Sonebäck and Jonas Ankjaer talk you through the findings from their latest Nordea On Your Mind, ‘Nordic sustainability champions'.
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Active ownership
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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Sustainability
The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is transforming corporate sustainability reporting in the EU. Learn why the "double materiality assessment" is crucial, and how Nordea is helping clients navigate the new reporting requirements.
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Active management blog
In our work to engage with companies as shareholders, Tesla is a one of them. It is an interesting and challenging company from an ESG engagement perspective and some of the issues we have raised with Tesla range from labour rights, to the size of Tesla CEOs pay package.
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Sustainability
A groundbreaking initiative by leading global companies including Microsoft, IKEA and Volvo Cars aims to revolutionise how industries report and validate their greenhouse gas emissions. Mats Lundberg, Head of Sustainability at Sandvik, explains how the MASSIV+ partnership is working to resolve the pain points of today’s emissions reporting structure.
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Corporate insights
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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Sustainability
Net zero is a term used when talking about reducing greenhouse gas emissions, including CO₂ emissions. The term “net-zero emissions” refers to making sure that the same amount of greenhouse gases emitted are also removed from the atmosphere, making the net contribution of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere zero.
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Diversity & inclusion
We have committed to ensure that both men and women have at least 40 per cent representation at the top three leadership levels combined by 2025. In 2023 the target was reached for the first time.
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Nordea On Your Mind
What role have owners played in making so many Nordic corporates sustainability pioneers? Our Nordea On Your Mind author Viktor Sonebäck sat down with Eric Pedersen, Head of Responsible Investments at Nordea Asset Management, to explore the evolution of responsible asset management, key drivers of its growth and how Nordic companies stand out on the global stage.
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