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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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
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 & 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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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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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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The three most important takeaways from the COP28 meeting
COP28 ended this week with a compromise text on fossil fuel, consensus on a renewables and energy efficiency target and progress on a loss and damage fund. Nordea’s sustainability expert Thina Saltvedt reflects on the outcome of the COP28 meeting.
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Nordea’s new progress report on climate actions and targets
Today we have published our new progress report “Climate actions and targets for the lending portfolio ”. The report addresses the climate actions we take for the sectors where we have set targets in line with our commitment to the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA).
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Active ownership
Nordea in dialogue with companies about PFAS phase-out
As a responsible investor Nordea has joined the Investor Initiative on Hazardous Chemicals (IIHC) where over 50 asset managers are trying to impact companies to phase out the use of hazardous chemicals.
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