Sustainability Report 2023
In 2023, we focused on growing our climate impact management and customer support for low carbon economy transition planning.
We built further our capabilities to steer financing into assets that help achieve the Paris Agreement targets and that do not violate human rights nor harm the environment. We raised the capabilities of our employees and solidified our ESG governance by setting further short and medium targets, built our competences, reduced our greenhouse gas emissions and expanded our performance management metrics and tools.
We developed roadmaps for our own operations and loan portfolios to decarbonise, enhanced our industry specific transition planning capabilities and provided related training for our customers and employees. We submitted Science Based Targets for validation. For the second year in a row, we earned a low‑risk score in ESG governance – the best ESG risk rating score of the Baltic banks – by Sustainalytics.
Read about our activities and plans here: Sustainability Report 2023 and Sustainability Factbook 2023.
In our 2023 report, we focused on meeting the CSRD criteria, which set a strong foundation for mandatory reporting in 2024. We have worked diligently to develop this report and to identify gaps and outline our path forward, ensuring we remain at the forefront of sustainable business practices. We look forward to realising a more sustainable future.
ESG Due Diligence Guidelines and Sustainable Investment Guidelines
We have ESG Due Diligence Guidelines in place that define the principles for due assessment and management of any negative impacts on society and environment that might be caused by our business activities. The statement on the ESG Due Diligence Guidelines providing a brief description of the established processes is published here.
We also established Sustainable Investment Guidelines that outline the Sustainable Investment principles, including sustainability risk integration in the investment decision‑making process in Luminor Bank and its Asset Management Subsidiaries. The statement on the Sustainable Investment Guidelines providing a brief description of the main principles is published here.
Furthermore, we have established ESG Risk Assessment Guidelines that describe and integrate the assessment process of ESG risks of the legal entities into the existing overall creditworthiness assessment process.