PROTECTING OCEAN INDUSTRIES SERVICE AND COMPETENCE YOU CAN RELY ON SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2020/21 01 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 04 02 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT AND CEO 08 03 ABOUT THIS REPORT 09 04 SELECTED GRI INDICATORS 13 05 MATERIALITY ASSESSMENT 2020/21 17 06 UN GLOBAL COMPACT 20 07 GOVERNING ELEMENTS 21 08 HEALTH AND WELLBEING 22 09 RISK MANAGEMENT 24 10 GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY AND INTEGRITY 25 11 CRISIS RESPONSE 27 12 DECARBONISATION AND EMISSIONS 29 13 WASTE AND RECYCLING 32 14 EMPLOYEE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION 33 15 SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENTS 36 16 RENEWABLES 38 17 UNDERWRITING 39 18 EXTERNAL SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES 40 FIGURES Figure 1 Skuld Sustainability Platform .........................................................................10 Figure 2 Skuld organisation chart ..................................................................................12 Figure 3 Skuld Materiality Matrix 2020/21 ..................................................................17 Figure 4 UN Global Compact COP .................................................................................20 TABLES Table 4 GRI Index ...............................................................................................................13 Table 6 Material Topic descriptions ............................................................................18 Table 13 Energy consumption within the organisation ..........................................29 Table 14 Emission factors per 20.04.2021 ...................................................................30 Table 15 Business travel breakdown .............................................................................30 Josh Sorenson/Unsplash.com SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2020/21 3 01 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Skuld’s purpose statement is ‘Protecting Ocean Industries’. It underlines our sustainability commit­ ment to members, clients, and brokers, to the world’s ocean industries, and to global society. We are acutely aware of climate challenges and the imperative to pursue sustainable development. We have embraced sustainability as a strategic initiative. Our sustainability programme incorporates development case for sustainability. We believe part of our role within the targets and focused activities in all our relevant operational sector is to help our members, clients, and brokers adapt areas. It is supported by Skuld’s board and management, to a sustainable future. As we do so, Skuld’s professional and integrated with our core business process areas of expertise benefits society every day, because our actions claims, loss prevention, underwriting, finance, human foster and support our customers’ precautionary approach resources, and communications. We are committed to UN to the foreseeable human and environmental impacts Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). arising from the ocean industries. As the shipping industry meets its sustainability challenges head on, Skuld’s ambi­ ADAPTING TO A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE tion is to continuously exert our expertise and influence to ensure positive impacts at sea. The shipping industry faces social, environmental, and technological challenges which shed special light on the Shutterstock.com 4 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2020/21 SUSTAINABILITY ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2020/21 Health and wellbeing of members and clients Decarbonisation • We are developing a risk­based analysis method to • We ceased to insure, from the 2020/21 policy year, extra reduce shipboard injuries. bunker [fuel] handling costs arising from non­compliance • We have dedicated considerable effort and resources to with IMO sulphur emissions regulations. assist ill, injured, and stranded crew during the pandemic. • ­­We reduced our own carbon footprint through reduced • Skuld signed the Neptune Declaration on Seafarer travel and procurement of greener electricity in Skuld Wellbeing and Crew Change in January 2021. offices. Health and wellbeing of Skuld’s employees Waste and recycling • We provided financial support to employees for the • Skuld reduced plastic bag consumption by 20,700 per purchase of ergonomic IT and home­office equipment. year, and increased waste recycling by installing office • Skuld conducted employee surveys to monitor stress recycling stations. levels, home­office environments, and motivation, and • We continued to ensure all current legal requirements are took action on the findings. met when a wreck is removed, including the Basel and • HR and executive management communicated frequent­ Hong Kong Conventions (although the latter is not yet in ly with employees throughout Covid­19 challenges. force). • Executive management approved a 3+2 regime, allowing • We review all wreck removals and record the number of employees to work three office days and two home days instances where Skuld’s stringent internal requirements each week. have been successfully incorporated. Risk Management Employee diversity and inclusion • Skuld established a cross­functional Climate Risk • Skuld’s SHE Index score improved from 54 in 2020 to 62 Working Group to ensure we assess climate change risks in 2021. in a consistent manner. • We increased the number of women in key and • We identified action points to enable granular, data­ managerial positions to 35%, up two points. driven analysis of climate change impacts based on • Skuld made 27 new hires during 2020, of whom 13 were claims data. men and 14 were women. • The Climate Risk Working Group issued its inaugural report. Sustainable investments • Skuld has adopted meaningful sustainability criteria for Governance, Transparency and Integrity selecting fund managers. • Skuld implemented a holistic Know Your Customer • We established a framework to register and assess each process for all accounts. fund management company’s sustainability approach. • We created and rolled out a tailor­made internal • We have developed and maintain a reference database anti­money laundering course. for evaluation of potential new fund managers. • We launched a comprehensive data protection impact • Skuld has categorised its investment holdings according assessment for claims processes. to common expected physical and transitional outcomes • We completed sustainability training in all departments. to provide an indication of alignment with the 2015 Paris • Skuld improved data collection for better and more trans­ Agreement. parent reporting. • We obtained insight through the process to guide future investment decision­making. Crisis response • We drafted and deployed wreck contract templates which include an environment clause for ship disposal requir­ ing compliance with the Basel Ban and EU ship recycling regulations. • We began testing a virtual reality platform for casual­ ty­scenario team­training which includes day­long case­ based collaboration. • We enhanced targeted loss prevention advice through the use of digital causation analysis tools. SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2020/21 5 SUSTAINABILITY FOCUS FOR 2021/22 During the year ahead, Skuld will implement the initiatives Waste and recycling outlined below, with emphasis on transparent presenta­ • Bring an environmental, health, and compliance focus to tion of outcomes. Throughout, we will strive to continue to all wreck removal and ship recycling operations. increase our internal competences, and to engage actively • Implement recycling stations in all Skuld offices. with sustainability throughout Skuld. Employee diversity and inclusion Health and wellbeing • Advance Skuld’s inclusive and diverse leadership culture. • Further develop Skuld’s measures for crew health, well­ • Promote gender equality. being, and stress management. • Maintain unbiased and objective recruitment. • Enhance crew wellbeing through Skuld’s Ship Survey • Assess and map equality and diversity risks within Skuld. Programme. • Prepare an activity plan to address identified equality and • Within Skuld, maintain board, management, and Employee diversity risks. Cooperation Committee focus on employee wellbeing. • Reduce or eliminate stress­related illness among our staff, Sustainable investments and build mental health resilience. • Monitor the development of regulatory requirements. • Prepare for climate­related non­financial disclosure. Risk Management • Identify and assess investment opportunities to improve • Continue to develop our approach to address financial Skuld’s overall ESG­risk profile. risks connected to climate change. • Encourage external managers to develop investment • Closely monitor regulatory and technological develop­ vehicles combining sustainability with Skuld’s other ments related to transition risk, and assess their potential investment criteria impacts on Skuld and our members and clients. • Define requirements to enable the systematic collection of Renewables data necessary to quantify and mitigate physical risks. • Continue to increase Skuld’s underwriting support for renewable ocean industries, including offshore aqua­ Governance, Transparency and Integrity culture, floating windfarms, and electric ferries. • Implement an integrated and automated 3­in­1 screening system for Sanctions, Terrorism and Money Laundering Underwriting risks and provide training to all relevant members of staff. • Present underwriting initiatives at global underwriting • Conduct a complete review and update of Skuld’s under ­ meetings to encourage open discussion. writing guidance framework to embed sustainability factors. • Convene the new internal Underwriting Sustainability • Enhance Skuld’s compliance framework and risk­based Competence Group. system of internal