The Swedish Club
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2023)
Reporting Period: 2023
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- Environment
- Social and staff-related questions
- Respect for Human Rights
- Combatting corruption
Environmental Achievements
- Minimising waste through recycling, reducing paper use, and utilizing video conferencing.
- Facilitating environmentally friendly commuting options (public transport, bicycle parking, electric car charging).
Social Achievements
- Employee work satisfaction significantly higher than the Swedish national industry benchmark in 2023.
- Gender division in 2023 was 49% women and 51% men.
- Support for The Swedish Sea Rescue Society (SSRS) and the magazine ‘Faktum’.
- Providing financial security for repatriating seafarers abandoned by their employer.
Governance Achievements
- Adoption of an ESG Framework Policy in October 2020.
- Annual sign-off procedure for employees on the Club’s Ethical Directive.
- Monthly screening of members and insured vessels using World-Check to combat corruption.
- Enhanced Know Your Client (KYC) routines.
Climate Goals & Targets
Environmental Challenges
- Inadvertently providing insurance coverage for illegal fishing, illegal shipping activities, intentional pollution, illegal scrapping of ships.
- Inadvertently providing insurance coverage for breaches of climate-related emission levels, labor and trafficking laws, poor worker safety records, and money laundering.
Mitigation Strategies
- Proactive loss prevention initiatives and risk analysis.
- Use of World-Check for screening members and vessels.
- Enhanced KYC routines.
- Vessel tracking and sanctions screening using AIS.
- Integration of compliance data and automated screening into risk assessment tools.
- Automated backstops based on sanctions lists incorporated into insurance and payment systems.
Supply Chain Management
Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities
Reporting Standards
Frameworks Used: UN Sustainable Development Goals (Goals 3, 12, 14, 16)
UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being
- Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
- Goal 14: Life Below Water
- Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
The Club's initiatives align with these goals through loss prevention, responsible consumption, environmental protection, and anti-corruption measures.