Expert Roundtable – Stockholm (Sweden)

Folksam Group

Almost every other person in Sweden is insured by Folksam and over three million customers save for their pension with Folksam. This makes Folksam a leading player in the insurance and pension savings industry in Sweden. As a pension company, Folksam manages approximately USD 50 billion on behalf of its customers and is thus one of Sweden’s largest asset managers. Folksam’s vision is for its customers to feel secure in a sustainable world. This means that when Folksam invests its customers’ money, they not only want it to give a good return, but also to contribute to the development towards a sustainable world. For example, good road safety performance is considered a requirement for any private sector company that Folksam may wish to invest in. In addition to that, Folksam’s ambition is to lower the number of road casualties by actively having a dialogue with and making demands on the companies in which it invests, as well as directing its investments to specific purposes. Folksam also tries to influence road traffic safety on a global level by disseminating the results from its own research activities. By arranging this initiative with GRSP, Folksam wants to explore how good corporate road safety performance can be measured and how improvements in the road safety performance by the private sector can be both objectively monitored and incentivised.

Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP)

The Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) is a hosted programme of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and has, as its mission, the reduction of road crash death and injury with a focus on low- and middle-income countries.  GRSP’s role includes forming partnerships between the private sector, governments, government agencies and civil society to urgently address road trauma.  GRSP considers that improving road safety performance among private sector organizations throughout their value chains to be an essential ingredient to achieving the goals of the UN Second Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021 to 2030 and the targets of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):

• SDG 3.6 – By 2030, halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic crashes.
• SDG 11.2 – By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all, improving road safety, notably by expanding public transport, with special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations, women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons.