Climate Change Data

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.