Global Wealth Management Update
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Environment
Mobilized $96 billion since November 1, 2018,
towards our target of $350 billion in climate-
related finance by 2030.
Outlined the efforts undertaken in addressing our
net-zero objectives and the Bank's net-zero
transition plan activities.
Achieved 29% reduction of Scope 1 and 2
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in our own
operations (from 2016 levels) against our target of
35% reduction by 2030.
$35.3 billion of sustainable finance activity,
including green, social, sustainability and
sustainability-linked bonds, loans and M&A
advisory services.
Invested $73.5 million since 2018 in initiatives to
reduce energy consumption and improve energy
efficiency across the Bank's footprint.
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Social
Contributed $91 million to communities through
donations, community sponsorships, employee
volunteering and other community investments.
$60 million of our community spend was
distributed through Scotia RISE in the first two
years across 200 organizations globally to support
economic resilience, progressing towards our goal
of $500 million over 10 years.
Scotiabank ranked one of the top 25 World's Best
Workplaces by Great Place to Work® - the only
Bank and the only Canadian headquartered
company to make the list.
Introduced a new goal to increase representation
in Canada of employees who identify as lesbian,
gay, bisexual or another diverse sexual orientation
to 7% or greater by 2025.
Deployed $5.6 billion in capital through The
Scotiabank Women InitiativeⓇ in Canada and
expanded the program to Jamaica, Costa Rica and
Chile.
Governance
Employee engagement continues to be strong at
87%, ahead of financial sector industry averages.
Ninety-two percent of employees report they take
pride in working for Scotiabank.
Enhanced our enterprise-wide Risk Management
Framework, expanding our principal risk definition
from environmental risk to ESG risk and
established an ESG performance metric as a risk
appetite metric.
Linked ESG performance, including progress on
our climate commitments, to all Bank
performance pay.
Recognized for Outstanding Global Leadership in
Sustainability Transparency by Global Finance for
the second year in a row.
Launched our Ethics Assistant - Trusted Al tool to
enhance the Bank's investments in data and
analytics related to new Al and machine learning
projects, and published our Data Ethics Principles.
Q1 2023
Scotiabank hosted the second annual Affordable Housing Summit to bring
together leading experts in the fields of public sector, builders, corporations, and
other key stakeholders, to share ideas on how to solve the housing affordability
crisis in Canada
The Banker magazine names Scotiabank Canada's Bank of the Year and gives
global recognition to Scotia RISE with the 2022 Banking in the Community
Award
Scotiabank included in 2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index for sixth
consecutive year
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2022 ESG Report,
including Net-Zero
Pathways (to be
released March 2023)
2021 Inaugural Net-Zero
Pathways Report
MSCI
ESG RATINGS
AAA
II
Bloomberg
Gender-Equality
Index
CCC B
BB BBB
A
AA AAA
2022
CDP
DRIVING SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIES
B Rating
Bombank
Sustainability
Yearbook Member
S&P Global ESG Score 2022
76/100
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