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ESG
The Environment & UN
Goal 14 – Life Below Water
The Club makes signi昀椀cant efforts to safeguard
environmental interests in its routine work. As part
of its loss prevention activities, the Club regularly
produces publications. It holds workshops on how to
avoid marine casualties, mitigate marine risks and
mitigate the environmental impact through advice
about ship bunker fuel management and information
on environmental regulations relating to the shipping
industry.
Courses and Seminars
The Club’s Loss Prevention team closely cooperates with
the Club’s claims handlers to understand and advise
members on what causes maritime accidents. Emergency
Response Training is offered to members to stress-test their
organisations. It further creates an understanding of ways to
cooperate among stakeholders to handle and minimise the
adverse consequences of maritime casualties. The Club’s
Marine Insurance Course and Marine Insurance Seminars made available to members and business partners annually
- are important means to educate and raise awareness of the
importance of marine insurance and casualty response.
Trade Enabling Loss Prevention (TELP)
The Club’s initiative, Trade Enabling Loss Prevention (TELP),
is at the forefront of providing shipowners with up-to-date
proactive loss prevention advice to prevent and minimise
loss and accidents at sea. TELP was launched in January
2020 and is a free-of-charge service for members. It aims
to increase safety awareness in speci昀椀c areas and ports
worldwide - thereby reducing claims. The information
provided through the TELP service was expanded and
enhanced further throughout 2024. TELP has enabled
ef昀椀cient and targeted distribution of information on claims
experience and risk factors to the Club’s membership where
their ships approach particular ports.
The Hellenic Marine Environment Protection
Association
The Club sponsors HELMEPA - the Hellenic Marine
Environment Protection Association, the pioneering
voluntary commitment of Greek seafarers and shipowners
to safeguard the seas from ship-generated pollution,
undertaken in Piraeus on 4 June 1982. HELMEPA operates
under the motto, “To Save the Seas”.
UN Goal 12 – Responsible
Consumption and
Production
Being an insurance company, the Club’s operations’
impact on the environment comes primarily from the
use of o昀케ce space, any waste the operation of its
o昀케ces generates, and the business travel undertaken
by its employees.
Minimising Waste
The Club seeks to apply high standards to operate in an ecofriendly way. This includes recycling waste, minimising the
use of paper and using video conferences instead of travelling
to the extent that it is reasonable in the business context
in which the Club operates. Club employees are expected
to travel responsibly and consider the best way to attend
meetings, inspect incident sites or manage a casualties to
achieve and maintain the service level expected.
Travel by Employees
Guidelines on the Club’s travel policy for employees are
provided in The Swedish Club’s Personnel Handbook. The
Club is assisted by its worldwide network of correspondents,
experts and lawyers in its routine claims-handling activities.
A physical presence is often necessary to maintain a close
relationship with the Club’s members and to properly
manage marine casualties. It is therefore unavoidable to
some extent for the Club’s employees to travel by air.
Commuting to the Workplace
Big Blue Ocean Cleanup
In 2020, the Club became an of昀椀cial Big Blue Ocean Cleanup
corporate member and continued its support throughout
2024. The Big Blue Ocean Cleanup helps keep the oceans
clean, protect marine wildlife and support the development
of innovative technologies.
The Big Blue Ocean Cleanup runs free educational
workshops and provides resources for schools worldwide,
inspiring every generation to take action and protect our blue
planet.
To encourage more environmentally friendly commuting, the
Club facilitates easy access to public transport fares and
enables bicycle parking as an alternative to cars in most of
its of昀椀ces. Charging electric cars at the Club’s Gothenburg
of昀椀ce is also possible.
O昀케ce Renovation
In 2024, the Club started an of昀椀ce renovation of Headquarters
in Gothenburg. A key part of the renovation has been to reuse or
upcycle of昀椀ce furniture and other materials wherever possible.
Examples of reuse or upcycling are reuse of some tables and
merely changing the table top on others, reuse of certain chairs and
cabinets, as well as keeping some of the already existing flooring.
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