Sustainability strategy

Our ambition

In line with Swiss Post’s ambitious climate and energy targets, we are working towards internal climate neutrality by 2030 and net zero by 2040. To achieve this, we must reduce our own direct emissions and indirect emissions.

Due to our activities on the global capital market, financed emissions in particular play an important role in reducing indirect emissions. To achieve our emissions targets, we will focus consistently on energy from renewable sources in future.

Our goals

• By 2028, 94.2 percent of PostFinance’s total energy consumption is expected to come from renewable sources
• By 2030, we will reduce our greenhouse gas emissions  Greenhouse gases (GHG) such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) contribute significantly to global warming. As their contribution varies, their impact is converted to a common basis: the so-called CO2 equivalent (CO2e), which corresponds to the impact of carbon dioxide (CO2), the best-known greenhouse gas. by at least 42 percent compared to 2021
• By 2030, we will reduce emissions in our value chain by at least 25 percent (in particular emissions financed by our own investments) and ensure that around half of all financed counterparties themselves pursue a validated climate target
• From 2030, we want to remove the remaining emissions from the atmosphere and store them permanently (neutralization)
• By 2040, we will reduce at least 90 percent of all emissions, of which 10 percent can be neutralized

Our ambition

We want to promote biodiversity  Biodiversity describes the variety of life forms in different ecosystems and is crucial to ensuring environmental balance and our quality of life. Key ecosystem services include pollination, water purification and climate regulation. As a result of human activity, however, biodiversity is increasingly under threat – including in Switzerland, where for example one third of animal and plant species are endangered or already extinct (source: FOEN, 2023). and species diversity, and initiate measures to preserve the ecosystem because we must protect the basis of our existence.

Our goals

In 2025, we will build up knowledge and resources, before going on develop an approach to defining concrete measures.

Our ambition

We believe that employees can only realize their full potential if they are valued and accepted, and everyone can be who they are. To create this kind of working environment, we are establishing a diverse, fair and inclusive work culture, a culture that also gives us a diverse talent base that allows us to respond to the various needs of our diverse customers.

Our goals

• By 2028, we will increase the proportion of women in middle and senior management to 30 percent
• We are ensuring equal opportunities and reducing the difference in the promotion rate by gender, age and language to 0 percentage points
• By 2028, we will increase the proportion of employees with physical or mental disabilities or with a refugee background to 0.2 percent of the total workforce

Our ambition

Because they are a decisive factor in achieving our sustainability goals, we are investing in awareness-raising and knowledge development among our employees with regard to the issue of sustainability. We also want to support society by encouraging the growth of general financial knowledge, but also knowledge concerning sustainability in the financial system.

Our goals

• We want to achieve a high quality of awareness-raising measures for employees
• We want to strengthen the financial knowledge and financial literacy of the general public, and we are investing more in projects to support these goals

Our ambition

We work to ensure transparency in our products and services with a view to strengthening the trust of customers, employees and other stakeholders, and to safeguarding our reputation.

In digital ethics Digital ethics is a branch of ethics that seeks appropriate and legitimate attitudes and behaviour for increasingly digitized living environments (source: Grimm, Keber & Zöllner, 2019). It looks into questions of correct conduct and the good life under the conditions of digitization and examines the social, environmental and economic compatibility of digital technologies in their development and application., we think about the values we want to live by in a digital world in order to shape society for the better through technical innovations. Our ambition is to take advantage of the opportunities offered by digitization while ensuring that our values (such as privacy, non-discrimination and solidarity) are upheld.

Our goals

We provide training to employees that allows them to develop a basis for and an understanding of ethical digital conduct.

Our ambition

Market service

To develop and expand products with a sustainability focus (along the ESG dimensions) in PostFinance’s range of services on the market. We want to launch new products and services with a sustainability focus, but also expand our existing products and services.

Supply chain

We want to gradually expand the number of suppliers who also have a high level of awareness of sustainability management. With EcoVadis EcoVadis is the world’s largest provider of sustainability ratings, with more than 130,000 rated companies from over 180 countries., we use a platform that rates the performance of suppliers in terms of the environment, labour and human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement.

Society

We want to be actively committed to society. Our focus is on creating positive impacts. These positive impacts can be in the areas of the environment, social issues and corporate governance, and should contribute to strengthening the Swiss financial center.

Our goals

Expansion of our range of services on the market with a focus on sustainability:

• we are increasing the share of customer investments positioned as ESG or sustainable and we are continuing to expand our range of investment products in line with requirements.
• We are also expanding our products and services with a sustainability focus outside the investment business and specifically promoting innovation projects for this purpose. We are increasing the proportion of our suppliers with a sustainability rating from a recognized agency.
• We are investing a higher proportion of our operating income in partnerships and projects with a focus on sustainability.
• We want our commitment to sustainability to be seen positively by people in Switzerland. One of the ways we measure our progress is by how society judges us.