Transforming our sustainability governance model Nordea’s sustainability governance structure dates from a couple of years back. In June 2020, a group-wide task force was appointed with the purpose of identifying improvements in terms of managing sustainability in general and ESG and climate-related risks in particular following heightened expectations from supervisors and regulators. The outcome of the task force’s work was a five-year action plan. The first step is to revise the ESG risk definitions in our risk taxonomy to consider ESG factors as drivers of the existing risk categories – including credit risk, market risk, liquidity risk and operational risk – and to further incorporate them into the existing risk management framework. To support this approach, we decided to modify our sustainability governance model to tie sustainability and risk closer together.