SEB ranked best bank in the Nordics by Carbon D...

SEB, the leading Nordic financial institution, has been voted the
best bank in the Nordics for addressing the issue of climate change,
according to an annual survey undertaken by the Carbon Disclosure
Project.


Measures taken by SEB regarding climate change are part of a series
of activities that commenced in 2008 when SEB began to address
sustainability issues on a deeper level.

This year SEB began to offset its carbon footprint through an
investment that provides rural population in the Ningxia Hui region
in China with solar cookers, which use the sun as energy source
instead of fossil fuel. The carbon offset is implemented according to
the UN certification scheme under the Kyoto Protocol and the project
has CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) and Gold Standard quality.

- We are highly ambitious when it comes to our sustainability
performance. This year we became the first Nordic bank to fully
offset our carbon emissions and by 2015, we aim to have cut emissions
by 45 percent, "says SEB's President and CEO Annika Falkengren.
The Carbon Disclosure Project is the world's largest survey of large
corporations' ambitions on climate change. A total of over 2,000
companies responded to this year's survey. At a meeting in Stockholm
on Tuesday the Nordic Report was presented, performed by SIRP at the
Umeå School of Business, and which includes the 200 largest listed
companies in the Nordics.


SEB is a North European financial group serving some 400,000
corporate customers and institutions and five million private
individuals. SEB offers universal banking services in Sweden, Germany
and the Baltic countries - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. It also has
local presence in the other Nordic countries, Poland, Ukraine and
Russia and a global presence through its international network in
major financial centers. On 30 June 2009, the Group's total assets
amounted to SEK 2,374bn (~EUR 220bn) while its assets under
management totalled SEK 1,267bn (~EUR 120bn).The Group has about
20,500 employees. Read more about SEB at www.sebgroup.com.

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