Finnvera Group Business Review and ESG Strategy
ESG Strategy
Climate change mitigation in Finnvera's operations
Encouragement
We help our customers seize the opportunities
created by climate change action by financing
growth, exports and investments.
Goals realised
Backed by the InvestEU guarantee programme, we
provided climate and digitalisation loans for SMEs
We developed climate criteria to identify export
projects that have climate-positive features
We defined incentives for projects meeting
the climate criteria
Goals 2024
- We publish the climate target, criteria and incentives
Measurement and reporting
We set goals for as well as measure and
report on the climate impacts of the projects
we finance and of our own operations.
Goals realised
- We calculated the direct and indirect CO2 emissions
from our operations
- We reported emissions relating to our ship liabilities
according to the Poseidon Principles
We set a long-term target for reducing our
climate impacts
Goals 2024
- We will define an emission reduction pathway to
2050 and start to measure our performance with
a CO₂/EUR indicator against the 1.5 degree pathway
Risk management
We are integrating climate change
risks into our key financing decisions
and risk management.
Goals realised
We included climate risks (transition and physical)
as part of ES assessment reports and ESG risks
as part of our company analysis
We introduced the ESG traffic light model and report
for domestic financing projects
Goals 2024
- We will integrate climate risk stress test as
part of internal capital adequacy assessment
process (ICAAP)
Restrictions
Our sectoral policies exclude
E===
the most harmful projects for the climate.
Goals realised
We restricted granting of export credit guarantees
to the oil and gas sectors as of January 1 2023,
with strictly limited exceptions
We exclude coal-fired power plants and peat projects
abroad from Finnvera's financing
Goals 2024
- We will update our oil and gas sectoral policy
Influencing
We influence the regulatory
framework of export financing.
Goals realised
-We influenced and acted in the OECD export credit
negotiations as part of the E3F coalition, which aims
for transparency in energy project financing
Goals 2024
- We will review joining the UN convened Net-Zero
ECA Alliance
Competence
Sustainability is one of
our strategic competences.
Goals realised
- CSRD training for the personnel as well as
the management team and the Board of Directors
- Membership in the Finnish Business and Society (FIBS)
enables sustainability training for the entire staff
Goals 2024
-
Trainings on the new climate target, criteria
and incentives
- FIBS membership and trainings continue
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