The past year was another active year for us as we continued with our work to further our responsibility targets. Integrating responsibility work in our day-to-day activities is crucial and has been entrusted as the task of every Veritas employee.
January
February
- We joined the CDP Green Finance Accelerator campaign.
March
- We drew up our Green Office annual report and set our targets for 2023.
April
- We published our Corporate Responsibility Report for the year 2022.
May
- We organised a theme day on responsibility for the entire personnel, where everyone had the chance to reflect on responsibility issues in a workshop.
- Our personnel participated in a course about Sanctioning at Veritas.
June
- We joined the CDP Non-Disclosure campaign.
July
- We joined the CDP Science-Based Targets campaign.
August
- Responsible investment was a key theme during the internal strategy event of the Board of Directors.
- Anti-racism training for supervisors was initiated.
September
- We joined the Nature Action 100 co-operation initiative for investors.
October
November
- Veritas placed second in the Responsible Workplace rating by Oikotie, representing the category for small and medium-sized organisations.
- We sent our asset managers an ESG survey, allowing us to survey how various responsibility factors are considered in investment activities.
- Our CEO participated in a panel discussion at the Finnish Finance Nature Summit.
- A project of the Veritas Future training programme on corporate responsibility was completed.
December
- We updated our principles for responsible investment and ownership steering.
Veritas’ money flows 2023
Stakeholder collaboration
Our key stakeholders comprise our customers and beneficiaries, personnel, public authorities, labour market organisations, industry organisations, media, non-governmental organisations, partners and investment objects. Typical avenues for interaction include, for instance, meetings, gatherings, training sessions, websites and social media, various publications, along with seminars and webinars.
We collaborate closely with the advocacy organizations in our field. For instance, we participate in the working groups of the Finnish Pension Alliance TELA, representing pension insurers, as well as Finance Finland (FA), representing the financial sector in Finland. We also interact with various non-governmental organisations, such as WWF Finland.
Within the sphere of responsible investment, we collaborate with other investors through various investor initiatives and communities. These are discussed in more detail in the Responsible Investment section of this report.
The cornerstone of our stakeholder collaboration is active and regular dialogue with our stakeholders and we aim to communicate with our stakeholders on corporate responsibility openly and transparently. We also conduct regular stakeholder surveys.