Capital Flows

Walmart/HSBC's plan to finance sustainable supply chains
January 12, 2022
Science-based targets to help narrow a global $100tn investment gap The next...
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2022 to test net zero commitments as thought leaders look beyond climate
December 16, 2021
Investors, companies and governments alike will have to put meat on the...
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Bond investors risk missing out on transition to low carbon
December 15, 2021
Lack of standards puts transition finance at risk, and keeps bond investors...
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Is any sovereign worth the greenium?
December 8, 2021
Issuance of green sovereign debt is rocketing and investors remain prepared to...
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The future of ESG thematic funds
December 8, 2021
Specialist funds that seek to target a specific environmental, social or governance...
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Sustainable investment is a ‘first-world’ option
December 8, 2021
Despite some progress, the work around defining and improving sustainable investment ignores...
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Dutch corporate pension fund calls for better climate risk reporting
24/11/2021
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 consistency of data on climate-related... Read more
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Investors keep faith in carbon capture to wash away biomass imperfections
24/11/2021
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 of climate harm and paint... Read more
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Green public debt set to rise
24/11/2021
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 far been negligible compared to... Read more
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European pension funds commit to climate investments
17/11/2021
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 climate reporting At the COP26... Read more
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The developing art of measuring ESG performance
17/11/2021
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? ... Read more
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