Aktia signs up to UN’s responsible banking principles

Aktia, a Finnish asset manager, bank and life insurer, has signed up to the UN Principles for Responsible Banking. The principles are a guiding framework aimed at ensuring that strategies adopted by banks align with the Paris Agreement. They call on banks to actively engage with climate change in their operations and report on their outcomes. According to the announcement, the company is “aiming for carbon neutrality in its investment portfolios by 2050, the operating environment permitting. In lending, its goal is to decrease carbon emissions and exposure. For Aktia Group’s own activities, one of the key goals is to achieve net carbon neutrality in the energy consumption of all rented premises by 2030".