Values
Calling out for more female leaders
For the fourth year in a row Nordea is one of the main partners to the SHE Conference, Europe’s biggest diversity and equality conference.
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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.
Sustainable banking
New sustainability targets for 2025
At our Capital Markets Day we presented our new sustainability targets for 2025, together with our updated business plan, strategic priorities and financial target. Nordea also announced that sustainability goals are now linked to the remuneration for senior leaders.
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Sustainable finance
Nordea adviser to the Danish central bank on its launch of sovereign green bonds
A new chapter opened on the Danish government bond market with the central bank’s first issue of sovereign green bonds. Nordea was the structuring adviser on the government’s issue of this new type of financial instrument.
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Sustainable banking
The World Wildlife Fund highlights Nordea Life & Pension’s net zero ambitions
Nordea Life & Pension’s target setting and alignment methodologies for how to lower carbon emissions are highlighted in report from the World Wildlife Fund.
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Sustainable banking
Nordea again in top 100 among the world’s most sustainable corporations
Nordea is again ranked as one of the top 100 most sustainable corporations in the world by Corporate Knights – and the only Nordic bank in the ranking.
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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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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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Sustainable banking
Our sustainability roadmap acknowledged
Our effort to support the transition towards a low-carbon economy has been awarded the Terra Carta Seal.
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