NIB - Financing the Future of the Baltic
Sea
Photo credit: Oona Lönnstedt/Uppsala Universitet.
This is NIB

International Financial Institution of
the Nordic and Baltic countries

Long-term lending in member
countries and selected non-member
countries
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The Bank complements commercial
lending
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Based in Helsinki
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Founded by the Nordic countries in
1974, the Baltic countries joined in
2005
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We finance
Competitiveness
Environment
Projects that support:
Projects that lead to:
 technical progress and
innovation
 improved resource efficiency
 development of human capital
 improvements in infrastructure
 increased market efficiency
 development of a competitive
low carbon economy
 protection of the environment
and its ecosystem services
 development of clean technology
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NIB’s scope
Our projects in
member countries
Finland
Iceland
Landsbankinn
Loan programme
for SMEs
Finavia Corp.
Airport expansion
Norway
Estonia
Lyse AS
Hydropower plant
Tartu University
Hospital
Sweden
Fastighets AB ML 4
MAX IV radiation lab
Latvia
Railway Company
VAS Latvijas
Dzelzcels
Denmark
Chr. Hansen
biotechnology
R&D
Lithuania
Amber Grid AB
Gas pipeline
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NIB in non-member countries
Modern transport
infrastructure in Poland
Wastewater treatment in
Northwest Russia
Wind park in Brazil
Upgrading telecom
infrastructure in Brazil
Transmission
system for
hydropower
stations in
India
Transfer of environmentfriendly technologies to
China
A few examples of projects
that we have funded
Helsingin Seudun
Ympäristöpalvelut
(HSY)
Financing the construction of a
wastewater treatment facility in
Blominmäki, Espoo.
The facility will be built underground and treat wastewater from
400,000 inhabitants in the
Helsinki metropolitan area. The
new plant will reduce the nitrogen
discharge into the Baltic Sea by
at least 300 tonnes a year.
 Loan: EUR 115 million
 Maturity: 30 years
 Country: Finland
 Obtained: 2015
Illustration: HSY
Käppalaförbundet
Financing the upgrade of
Käppalaförbundet's sewage
treatment plant in Lidingö,
northern Stockholm.
Construction of a new
wastewater treatment plant with
a high-rate clarification process
for overflow on site of the
existing Käppala sewage
processing facility, and the
installation of a new digester to
increase the biogas production
capacity of the plant.
 Loan: SEK 151 million
(EUR 16 million)
 Maturity: 25 years
 Country: Sweden
 Obtained: 2016
Photo: Björn Leijon
Vodokanal of St.
Petersburg
2001: Financing the construction
of the Southwest Wastewater
Treatment Plant in St.
Petersburg. (EUR 45 million)
2009: Financing the construction
of a pumping station in a
sewage collection tunnel as well
as the partial upgrading of the
Northern Wastewater Treatment
Plant in St. Petersburg. (EUR 25
million)
The project aims to reduces the
effluent of untreated wastewater
discharged into the Gulf of
Finland and the Baltic Sea.
 Country: Russia
Photo: Vodokanal St.Petersburg
NIB - Belarus
 Loan Agreement 12/2012: a 15
year loan to finance Brest and
Grodno VK renovations, to reach
Helcom compliance
 - Grants from Sweden, Finland
and NDEP
Grodno
Brest
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Environmental Load Reductions
 Brest – city of 300,000 inhabitants
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Total nitrogen load reduction
921 t/ per year
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Total phosphorus load reduction
217 t/ per year
 Grodno - city of 300,000 inhabitants
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Total nitrogen load reduction
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Total phosphorus load reduction
306 t/ per year
51 t/ per year
…as comparison , in 2013, Stockholm City, 1,5 million inhabitants
discharged 17 tonnes phosporus into the Baltic Sea .
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City of Stockholm
Financing the construction of the
world’s largest underground
wastewater treatment facility.
The loan increases the capacity
of Stockholm’s sewer network.
In addition, the production of
biogas at Henriksdal doubles to
35 million normal cubic metres
per year.
 Loan: SEK 3 billion
EUR 323 million
 Maturity: 10 years
 Country: Sweden
 Obtained: 2016
Photo: Kari Kohvakka
Photo credit: Johan Fredriksson
Patrik Marckert
[email protected]
P: +358 10 618 0266
M: +358 50 466 1692
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