We want to become a bank with net zero emissions by 2050, and we always focus on accelerating our customers’ transition through our support and offerings.
Sustainability
At Nordea, we’ve committed to becoming a bank with net-zero emissions and have set targets for 2023 and 2025. Now, with less than a year until the end of 2023, we’ve invited Head of Group Sustainability Anja Lidgren Hannerz to a talk about Nordea’s progress.
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ESG
Investors have an important role to play to steer capital towards solutions that can improve social conditions. The most direct way to impact social conditions is probably to finance or refinance social projects.
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Active ownership
Did you know that Nordea is the largest portfolio manager in the Nordics and actively use its voting rights at almost 4,000 annual general meetings with around 50,000 items on the agenda and 1,200 proposed motions each year?
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ESG
An improved score in S&P Global’s Corporate Sustainability Assessment has resulted in Nordea’s inclusion in the S&P Sustainability Yearbook 2023, one of the world’s most important publications of ESG ratings.
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Sustainable banking
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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Sustainability
The NGO BankTrack has released a report on Nordic banks’ lending and investments in fossil fuel companies. Nordea is mentioned in connection with companies in the report but is also highlighted as one of the main banks behind the decreasing trend in oil and gas financing and investments.
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Sustainability
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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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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About us
Anja Lidgren Hannerz has been appointed Head of Group Sustainability as of 9 November to lead the implementation of Nordea’s sustainability agenda across the bank.
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Sustainability
Within the next eight years all plastic packaging in the EU must be recyclable – so we need solutions. With a Verde loan from Nordea, Jospak was able to finance new ecological premises to increase their production and accelerate the sustainable transition.
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Sustainable banking
This year the UN climate summit, COP27 will be held amid rocketing energy and food prices and overall difficult geopolitical circumstances. We have interviewed Nordea’s climate experts Stefan Henningsson and Matti Kahra on what they expect will be the outcome.
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Sustainability
Fair Finance Guide has published a critical report on Swedish banks’ lending to companies operating in the Arctic. The report was referred to in an article in Aftonbladet on 3 October 2022.
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