Sustainable banking

2023-09-25

Sustainable banking

Almost 1,000 dialogues with companies to address ESG issues

In 2022 Nordea’s ESG experts engaged in nearly 1,000 dialogues with companies in the name of our investment funds. The dialogues were held to address issues such as climate change, human rights and governance.

2023-08-18

Active ownership

Field trip to Texas: Nordea in dialogue with oil and gas companies on emissions reduction

In the blistering heat of Texas, Nordea Asset Management went on a week-long field trip to Houston and the Permian Basin to engage 12 important oil and gas companies in reducing their methane emissions.

2023-06-29

Sustainable finance

Nordea continues to win top rankings in sustainable finance

Global Finance has once again recognised Nordea's sustainability leadership in its 2023 Sustainable Finance Awards. In addition to country wins for Denmark, Finland and Norway, Nordea was also named top bank for transition/sustainability-linked loans in all of Western Europe.

Shoreline-of-Raftsund-strait-with-red-painted-house

2023-05-15

Sustainable banking

Sailing through rough seas

Last year began optimistically for responsible investors, but their attention was soon captivated by swelling and surging energy prices driven by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. explains Head of Asset Management Nils Bolmstrand in his introduction to the Responsible Investments Report.

2023-05-04

Sustainability

Nordea joins new UN-driven working group to set nature-related targets for the banking sector

The new working group is part of the United Nations Environment Finance Initiative and is formed to help banks understand how they impact nature and can reverse losses.

2023-03-27

ESG

Social bonds: Investing to improve social conditions

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.

2023-03-29

Sustainability

”On a good path”

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.

2023-03-14

Active ownership

Using our voting power to influence how companies are run

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?

2023-02-07

ESG

Nordea included in the S&P Sustainability Yearbook for the first time

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.

2022-12-21

Sustainable banking

The Paris Agreement for Nature – COP15 and the outcomes

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.

2022-11-16

Sustainability

Nordea comments on NGO report about lending and investments in fossil energy

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.

Upward viewpoint of trees inside a forest

2022-12-13

Sustainability

Nordea comments on NGO report on Europe’s 25 largest banks approach to climate and biodiversity

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.