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Type	Time	Amount	Unit
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   <mrv:StatementOfCorporateSocialResponsibility contextRef="ctx-2" id="pp-value-17" xml:lang="en">EnvironmentCircular for ZeroAs part of the environmental strategy 'Circular for Zero', Novo Nordisk has a target of all direct suppliers supply Novo Nordisk using 100% renewable power by 2030. Since the launch of the target in September 2020, suppliers representing approximately 25% of supply chain carbon emissions have committed to use renewable power when supplying to Novo Nordisk. This change has already reduced Novo Nordisk's direct supply chain carbon emissions by more than 15%. Further,to reduce carbon emissions from travel, new guidelines to limit business travel and encourage online meetings are being implemented.Novo Nordisk carbon emissions from operations and transport decreased by 45% to 83,215 tons in the first six months of 2021 compared to the first six months of 2019. The decrease was driven by renewable energy projects and impacts from COVID-19 on travelling. 2019 is used as baseline as 2020 was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. SocialDefeat DiabetesNovo Nordisk continues to take action under the social responsibility strategy ‘Defeat Diabetes’ with a keen focus on access®and affordability and prevention. Within access and affordability, Novo Nordisk is expanding the Changing Diabetes in Children partnership aspiring to reach 100,000 children and young people with type 1 diabetes in low-resource settings by 2030. Together with global partners – F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, International Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes and the World Diabetes Foundation – Novo Nordisk is including new countries in the programme, most recently Ghana in June 2021. 15 countries are now included. Within prevention, Novo Nordisk launched the Prevention Accelerator in June, inviting start-ups developing digital solutionsto submit ideas for how to enable individuals and societies to predict or prevent obesity. This initiative comes in addition to the Healthy Food Challenge, launched in January in partnership with the EAT Foundation. The Healthy Food Challenge invited community stakeholders and private businesses to prevent obesity through solutions that advance healthy and sustainable food environments for vulnerable people.EmployeesThe number of full-time employees at the end of  the first six months of 2021&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="_ _0"/&gt; increased by 3.3% compared to 12 months ago. The total number of employees was 46,574 corresponding to 45,971&lt;span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="_ _0"/&gt; full-time positions. The increase is driven by International Operations, Product Supply and R&amp;amp;D, partially countered by North America Operations. </mrv:StatementOfCorporateSocialResponsibility>
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   <sob:StatementByExecutiveAndSupervisoryBoards contextRef="ctx-2" id="pp-value-42" xml:lang="en">The Board of Directors and Executive Management have reviewed and approved the financial report of Novo Nordisk A/Sfor the first six months of 2021. The financial report has not been audited or reviewed by the company’sindependent auditors.The financial report for the first six months of 2021 has been prepared in accordance with IAS 34 'Interim FinancialReporting' and additional Danish disclosure requirements for listed companies. The accounting policies adopted in the preparation are consistent with those applied in the Annual Report 2020 of Novo Nordisk.In our opinion, the financial report for the first six months of 2021 gives a true and fair view of the Group’s assets, liabilitiesand financial position at 30 June 2021, and of the results of the Group’s operations and cash flow for the period 1 January 2021 to 30 June 2021. Furthermore, in our opinion, Management’s Review includes a true and fair account of the development in the operations and financial circumstances of the results for the period and of the financial position of the Group as well as a description of the most significant risks and elements of uncertainty facing the Group in accordance with Danish disclosure requirements for listed companies.Besides what has been disclosed in the quarterly financial report, no changes in the Group’s most significant risks anduncertainties have occurred relative to what was disclosed in the consolidated Annual Report 2020.</sob:StatementByExecutiveAndSupervisoryBoards>
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