Sector Focus
May 25, 2022
Sustainable investment, not donations, are needed in rural Africa
Global supply chain weakness and urbanisation trends are being disproportionately felt in the most rural parts of Africa. Yet those areas both offer opportunities for...
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May 24, 2022
Pension fund focus on ESG opens questions over insurer back books
Billions of assets purchased by insurers to back UK retirement promises have the potential to drive corporate progress on issues such as climate change, and...
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May 24, 2022
Asset managers draw lines ahead of oil company AGMs
Major investors are putting more pressure on oil companies to improve their climate change policies ahead of shareholder meetings. Asset managers are turning up the...
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May 3, 2022
Passive giants envisage role as stewards of hard-to-love assets
Passive investment giants have found a rationale for maintaining exposure to traditional indices’ fossil fuel assets, but campaigners say their voting record should match their...
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April 21, 2022
New York’s catch-all fashion act aims to enforce global change
The proposed bill has strong support, and could force retailers to sign up to a new standard on sustainability disclosures in order to continue selling...
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April 14, 2022
At the limits of energy efficiency policy, energy providers see opportunity
Energy providers have spotted an opportunity in the heat pump sector after the UK released its much criticised energy strategy, but investors may need some...
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April 7, 2022
Healthcare stewards see success on access to vaccines
The pandemic has brought the issue of global access into the mainstream for both investors and companies. When AstraZeneca chief executive Pascal Soriot announced the pharmaceutical company’s decision to begin...
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March 2, 2022
How ESG regulation is reshaping mining
The sector that extracts the resources needed to power a greener economy has a poor track record on ESG – but new environmental and human rights rules are forcing improvements....
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February 22, 2022
The campaign against charcoal
Koko Networks’ CEO on the benefits of scaling up ethanol cooking fuel While charcoal is still used as a primary cooking fuel in many developing countries, it is carbon intensive...
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February 17, 2022
Meet the ESG disruptors
From measuring impact to allowing individual savers to voice their stance on environmental and social issues, start-up founders are taking sustainable finance head-on Ask any entrepreneur in financial services about...
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January 19, 2022
Europe's gas crisis and the green transition
While the debate over EU plans to include gas and nuclear as transition fuels in its green taxonomy rages on, Sustainable Views looks into the real prospects for both sources...
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