In order to manage the Danske Bank Group’s environmental impact systematically and efficiently, the Group decided in 2006 to implement an environmental management system (EMS). The system ensures that the Group continually improves its environmental behaviour and regularly reports on our environmental conditions internally as well as externally.
The EMS is based on our environmental policy and sets forth procedures, responsibilities and controls for individual areas. Management reviews the system on an ongoing basis and sees that adjustments are implemented, for example as the result of new statutory provisions. The system adheres to the requirements in ISO 14001.
The model below illustrates the principles of our system
Meeting the ISO standard
In the beginning of 2009, the Group implemented in the EMS the principles in ISO 14064-1, a standard for the quantifying and reporting of emissions and reductions of greenhouse gases. Managing the impact on the climate is thus an integral part of the system.
Continued implementation
The EMS has been implemented in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Northern Ireland and Finland. The objective of implementing environmental management in the Baltic countries in 2009 was postponed indefinitely because the countries’ critical financial situations required the units’ full attention. In 2011, we started a process of identifying an environmental coordinator with to be responsible for environmental reporting in Lithuania. The Group’s general environmental projects, as well as its environmental requirements for centralised purchasing and carbon neutrality, apply to Lithuania as well even though the EMS is not fully implemented here yet.
Last updated on 9 February 2012