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Ubs — ESG Presentation (March 2026)

31 slides from Ubs's sustainability presentation, March 2026

  1. Slide 1: Sustainability at UBS

    Sustainability at UBS This document should be read in conjunction with the UBS Group Sustainability Report 2025 and Annual Report 2025 ubs.com/annualreporting March 2026

  2. Slide 2: Important information

    Important information Forward-looking statements: This presentation contains statements that constitute “Forward looking statements,” including but not limited to management’s outlook for UBS’s financial performance, statements relating to the anticipated effect of transactions and strategic initiat

  3. Slide 3: Our ambition is to be a leader in sustainability

    Our ambition is to be a leader in sustainability Our sustainability & impact approach 2025 key achievements ✓ On track to substantially complete the sustainability integration of Credit Decarbonization Suisse by YE26 Protect Manage our business in alignment with our Risk standards ✓ Significantly pr

  4. Slide 4: Our sustainability and impact strategy

    Our sustainability and impact strategy Protect Grow Attract Manage our business in alignment with our Embed an innovative sustainability and impact Be the bank of choice for clients and employees sustainable, long-term strategy and evolving offering across all our business divisions standards Select

  5. Slide 5: Our sustainability governance

    Our sustainability governance − The Board of Directors of the UBS Group (the BoD) Board of Directors has ultimate responsibility for the success of the Group and for delivering sustainable shareholder Risk Audit Corporate Culture and Governance and Compensation value within a framework of prudent an

  6. Slide 6: Protect – our aspirations, goals or targets and progress

    Protect Grow Attract Protect – our aspirations, goals or targets and progress Ambitions Topics Our aspirations, goals or targets Progress Lending sector decarbonization targets have been established to address Calculated progress against pathways for lending sector decarbonization our financed emiss

  7. Slide 7: Our climate roadmap

    Protect Grow Attract Our climate roadmap 2006 Launched our first climate strategy, focused on our own emissions 2012 Expanded our climate strategy, to also include risk management, investments, financing and research 2017 Started applying TCFD recommendations to our climate disclosures 2020/21 Comme

  8. Slide 8: Progress on our own environmental footprint

    Protect Grow Attract Progress on our own environmental footprint Decarbonization pathway modelling − We aim to reduce our scope 1 and market-based scope 2 emissions by at least 90% against our 2023 baseline of 46,278 metric tons of CO2e by 2035, before neutralizing any residual emissions through the

  9. Slide 9: Progress on our own environmental footprint

    Protect Grow Attract Progress on our own environmental footprint Environmental performance and targets energy Energy and renewable electricity 2023 2025 2030 755 − 1 9 % vs 2023 −35% vs. 2023 GWh − Continued to make progress on energy reduction target and renewable electricity (613 GWh) aligned to R

  10. Slide 10: Our lending sector decarbonization targets

    Protect Grow Attract Our lending sector decarbonization targets Overview of lending sector decarbonization targets and progress Progress against targets Swiss residential real estate1 Swiss commercial real estate1 Fossil fuels3 Swiss residential real estate (intensity): (15%) vs. kg CO2e/m2 ERA2 kg

  11. Slide 11: Measuring facilitated emissions from our capital markets business

    Protect Grow Attract Measuring facilitated emissions from our capital markets business Overview − We review and assess Global Banking transactions, employing a robust business selection process for mandates that are accepted. We conduct an annual assessment of the proximity of our products and servi

  12. Slide 12: Grow – our aspirations, goals or targets and progress

    Protect Grow Attract Grow – our aspirations, goals or targets and progress Ambitions Topics Our aspirations, goals or targets Progress Increased sustainable investing invested assets to USD 405.6bn (2024: USD 309.6bn).1 Facilitated 95 green, social, sustainability or sustainability-linked (GSSS) Emb

  13. Slide 13: Sustainable investing invested assets increased by 31% to 406bn

    Protect Grow Attract Sustainable investing invested assets increased by 31% to 406bn Invested assets1,2 − Sustainable investing invested assets grew USD bn 31% YoY, driven by market performance and foreign currency effects while also 7,005 driven by integration-related effects, mainly Sustainable in

  14. Slide 14: Supporting opportunities across sustainable investing and finance

    Protect Grow Attract Supporting opportunities across sustainable investing and finance Our investing approaches Traditional investing Sustainable investing – Targets risk-adjusted market-rate investment returns – Targets risk-adjusted market-rate investment returns – Has no explicit sustainability o

  15. Slide 15: Driving social impact and philanthropy

    Protect Grow Attract Driving social impact and philanthropy 2025 key highlights UBS supports an economy that prioritizes the UBS Optimus Foundation well-being of people and planet focus areas 472m donations raised by UBS Optimus Foundation1 − Through the UBS Optimus network of including matching con

  16. Slide 16: Attract – our aspirations, goals or targets and progress

    Protect Grow Attract Attract – our aspirations, goals or targets and progress Ambitions Topics Our aspirations, goals or targets Progress Achieved top quartile position vs direct peers as defined in UBS compensation report in ESG ratings including but not limited to: Attract Bank of choice Maintain

  17. Slide 17: Dedicated to being a world-class employer for talented individuals

    Protect Grow Attract Dedicated to being a world-class employer for talented individuals Continuing to embed our culture, grounded in our 2025 key highlights three keys to success across the combined organization BoD oversight of corporate culture through the 59% 81% Corporate Culture and Responsibil

  18. Slide 18: Business conduct and corporate culture

    Business conduct and corporate culture 2025 progress − With the exposure reductions in Non-core and Legacy and the significant progress on the client account migrations (~85% of Swiss-booked accounts transferred by YE25), we have substantially reduced the proportion of risks managed on legacy Credit

  19. Slide 19: Responsible use of artificial intelligence

    Responsible use of artificial intelligence Delivering on our AI strategy Managing new risks related to AI − Deployment of AI in the financial services sector involves new risks and changes the landscape for many existing risks 9 large-scale transformational − We have established a comprehensive AI f

  20. Slide 20: Appendix

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  21. Slide 21: Sustainability and climate risk policy framework (coal, oil & gas and shipping)

    Sustainability and climate risk policy framework (coal, oil & gas and shipping) We do not provide project-level finance for new CFPP globally and only support financing transactions of existing coal-fired operators (>20% coal Coal-fired power reliance) if they have a transition strategy that aligns

  22. Slide 22: Our standards – overview (sustainability and climate risk policy framework)

    Our standards – overview (sustainability and climate risk policy framework) Controversial activities Areas of concern Where we will not do business Where we will only do business under stringent criteria − UNESCO world heritage sites Soft commodities: Extractives: − Wetlands on the Ramsar list − Pal

  23. Slide 23: Overview of 2030 lending sector decarbonization targets and progress

    Overview of 2030 lending sector decarbonization targets and progress For the year ended 31.12.241 Gross lending exposure Progress5 Targets 2024 2023 2024 2023 2021 2021–24 2030 2021–30 Full value Covered by Full value Covered % % chain (USD targets chain (USD by targets change vs change vs Sectors b

  24. Slide 24: Climate-driven transition risk heatmap

    Climate-driven transition risk heatmap Climate-driven transition risk profile chart for UBS Group1,2 USD bn High 50.97 (6.49%) Real estate 45.72 Utilities 1.44 Fossil fuels 0.28 Private clients with mortgages 39.72 Power production: regulated & high-carbon fuels 1.44 Wholesale & trading: refined pet

  25. Slide 25: Climate-driven physical risk heatmap

    Climate-driven physical risk heatmap Climate-driven physical risk profile chart for UBS Group1,2, 3, 4, 5 USD bn Switzerland6 Americas EMEA Asia Pacific Sensitive 53.05 Sensitive 43.07 Sensitive 3.03 Sensitive 1.95 Private clients with mortgages 19.20 Financial services 20.77 Services and technology

  26. Slide 26: Climate-related metrics

    Climate-related metrics For the year ended 31.12.25 31.12.24 Climate-related metrics (USD bn) Total exposure to climate-sensitive sectors, transition risk: UBS Group AG consolidated1,2 192.9 147.5 Climate-sensitive sectors, transition risk, proportion of total gross lending exposure, UBS Group AG co

  27. Slide 27: Footnotes (1/4)

    Footnotes (1/4) Slide 2: Our ambition is to be a leader in sustainability Slide 5: Protect – our aspirations, goals or targets and progress 1. Our climate transition plan does not cover all our business activities. We may add ambitions for additional scope 3 1. Our climate transition plan does not c

  28. Slide 28: Footnotes (2/4)

    Footnotes (2/4) Slide 9: Our lending sector decarbonization targets Slide 11: Grow – our aspirations, goals or targets and progress 1. For real estate, our targets use the percentage decarbonization rate implied by the Energy Perspectives 2050+ ZERO 1. This figure does not contain invested assets cl

  29. Slide 29: Footnotes (3/4)

    Footnotes (3/4) Slide 13: Supporting opportunities across sustainable investing and finance Slide 20: Sustainability and climate risk policy framework (coal, oil & gas and shipping) 1. Figures do not include invested assets classified under the Credit Suisse Sustainable Investment Framework but incl

  30. Slide 30: Footnotes (4/4)

    Footnotes (4/4) Slide 24: Climate-driven physical risk heatmap Slide 25: Climate-related metrics 1. Gross lending exposure consists of total on-balance sheet loans and advances to customers and off-balance sheet 1. Gross lending exposure consists of total on-balance sheet loans and advances to custo

  31. Slide 31: Cautionary statement regarding Forward looking statements

    Cautionary statement regarding Forward looking statements Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward looking Statements | This presentation contains statements that constitute “forward-looking statements”, including but not limited to management’s outlook for UBS’s financial performance, statements rela

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