Sustainable banking

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.

Eric Pedersen, Head of Responsible Investments / Fixed Income & Equities

Sustainable banking

Eric Pedersen appointed adjunct professor at CBS

Nordea’s Head of Responsible Investment, Eric Pedersen, has been appointed adjunct professor at Copenhagen Business School, which will benefit from his insights and position as a frontrunner within sustainable banking.

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Sustainable banking

Nordea among the top responsible investors in the world

Nordea Asset Management (NAM) is fourth best asset manager in the world based on combined scores for responsible investment commitments and our ESG brand.

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Sustainable banking

What are financed emissions?

You may have come across the term “financed emissions” in the field of sustainability. What are they, and why do they matter? Here’s an explainer.

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Head of Group Sustainability Anja Lidgren Hannerz

Sustainable banking

Our sustainability target: “We’re showing strong progress”

In 2019 Nordea launched an ambitious sustainability strategy with clear mid-term objectives for 2030. Are we on track or what additional measures do we need take to make it happen? We asked Anja Hannerz, Head of Group Sustainability.

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Sustainability

Nordic SMEs are looking for support to capture business opportunities in the sustainability transition

Many small and medium-sized companies are now seeing the sustainability transition as an opportunity for growth and a must to meet the demands from customers and other partners in their value chain. This is one of the conclusions in a new survey from Nordea.

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Diversity and inclusion

Diversity & inclusion

Diversity and inclusion is a natural part of our daily work

Being diverse and inclusive is at the top of our agenda. Every day we strive to find new ways to improve diversity and inclusion within Nordea, in our relations with our customers and in wider society.

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Active ownership

Making active ownership count

Nordea gets high recognition for how we practise active ownership in a recent independent report where we are compared to peers. Nordea is ranked number 8 among the 69 largest asset managers in the world.

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Sustainable banking

Nordea continues good progress towards its emission reduction targets

Nordea continues to show strong progress in reducing emissions from its lending and investment portfolios. Notably, the absolute emissions from the lending portfolio are down by as much as 29% compared with 2019.

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Press releases

Nordea further expands annual sustainability reporting

Reporting on the financial year 2024 will be further expanded as the application of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) modernises and strengthens the rules concerning the social and environmental reporting.

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Sustainable banking

Nordea sets sector target for cars and vans to lower emissions

Nordea is one of the first Nordic banks to set an emission reduction target for car and van financing that is science-based and aligned with the Paris Agreement. The aim is to reduce emission intensity by at least 40% by 2030 with 2022 as baseline.

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Sustainable banking

Nordea included in the S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook for second year running

At Nordea, we have climbed in several of our key ESG ratings and are again included in the S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook, which places us among the top 15% sustainable banks globally.

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Sustainable banking

Nordea comments NGO report on carbon footprint of Swedish banks

On January 24, the NGOs Fair Finance Guide Sweden and Swedish Society for Nature Conservation published a report on financed emissions from lending for the five largest banks in Sweden: Handelsbanken, SEB, Swedbank, Nordea and Danske Bank. The report was also mentioned in Swedish media.

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