Green Bond Framework Presentation
Nordea rationale for issuing Green Bonds
Sustainability is not only the right thing to do; it also mitigates risk and is financially smart
Issuing Green Bonds...
...supports one of the most important aspects of sustainability at
Nordea, namely conducting sustainable business:
✓ Enables a connection between sustainable lending to customers and
dedicated investor demand
Builds a more sustainable credit portfolio
...is a natural step in the process to reach Nordea's long-term
sustainability targets:
✓ Manage Nordea's indirect impact to fight climate change
✓ Integrate sustainability in all policies, processes and products
...is well aligned with Nordea's Key Principles to preserve market
capacity:
✓ Seeking diversification of investor base and product types
✓ Maintaining a proactive behaviour
Sustainable debt market development (USDbn)
732.1
Sustainability-linked
bonds
565.5
Sustainability-linked
loans
■Green loans
Issuance of sustainable debt set record, over USD 700bn in 2020
Issuance ($ billion)
800.0
700.0
600.0
500.0
400.0
309.3
Social bonds
300.0
237.9
200.0
145.8
Sustainability bonds
85.1
100.0
64.5
26.6
Green bonds
0.0
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Global sustainable debt annual issuance, 2013-2020
SOURCE: BLOOMBERGNEF, BLOOMBERG L.P.
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Source: BloombergNEF, Bloomberg L.P.
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