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December 8, 2021
The future of ESG thematic funds
Specialist funds that seek to target a specific environmental, social or governance issue are growing in popularity in the investor community Last month, Credit Suisse...
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December 8, 2021
Sustainable investment is a ‘first-world’ option
Despite some progress, the work around defining and improving sustainable investment ignores developing markets’ reality Even in the midst of a global pandemic, sustainable investing...
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November 24, 2021
Dutch corporate pension fund calls for better climate risk reporting
While the €10bn Pensioenfonds Achmea has already established some ambitious sustainable investment objectives, Wiebe Hofstra, the scheme’s head of asset management, says the quality and...
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November 24, 2021
Investors keep faith in carbon capture to wash away biomass imperfections
Trial projects hope to unlock the potential for carbon-negative energy by storing emissions from the burning of biomass. Campaigners say there is still the prospect...
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November 24, 2021
Green public debt set to rise
Public commitments at COP26 are likely to result in greater green government debt, says IIF Government spending on climate change and the environment has so...
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November 17, 2021
European pension funds commit to climate investments
As several Nordic and UK pension funds commit to clean energy and green investments by 2030, they must also navigate the increasingly important world of...
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November 17, 2021
The developing art of measuring ESG performance
From IFRS’s newly launched International Sustainability Standards Board to CalPERS’s data convergence project, where are we in the complex and multifaceted challenge of quantifying companies’ environmental, social and governance performance? ...
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November 9, 2021
The financial reality of deforestation
More than 100 world leaders have committed to halt and reverse deforestation at COP26, but signatory and Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro's pledge to only stop "illegal" deforestation by 2030 has been...
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November 9, 2021
ESG becoming core to investor appeal
As performance against ESG criteria increasingly has an impact on stock market value and ability to attract investors, companies — and their bankers — are grappling with the strategic consequences...
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