Managers of Wealth

Clothing With A Conscience

With London Fashion Week just around the corner, here's how a fashion retailer we work with takes action towards a better world.

Change is coming, whether you like it or not' – Greta Thunberg by Peter Graham

A significant amount of plant and machinery that qualifies for ECA is found in newly constructed commercial property.

5 strategies that help achieve both climate mitigation and adaptation

It is not always possible or practical to work solely on actions that are both adaptive and mitigating.

London Stock Exchange Group: Supporting more shades of Green

The first is aimed at formalising the broadening use of proceeds classification, by adding social and sustainability segments alongside green bonds.

Ernst & Young Becomes First Big Four Organization to Set Global Carbon Neutrality Target

Previous steps to reduce the firm’s carbon footprint include designing an environmental strategy that aligns with the United Nations Global Compact

Don’t call me ‘Greta’: Young climate activists demand to be heard

Over the past year, the trend of young climate activists being portrayed as their national version of Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg has become common, a description that has been criticised to erase ‘unique stories, identities, names and move

Why ‘net zero’ is not good enough

It sounds like an ambitious goal, but the term may hide loopholes that can delay real climate action and drive land grabs and hunger.

ESG: Three key issues - KPMG

The research includes insights from 135 institutional investors, hedge fund managers, long only managers and pension consultants in 13 countries in all the key regions.

As Microsoft pledges to go ‘carbon negative’ by 2030, forest conservation is required

To achieve its goal, the tech giant has teamed with a Silicon Valley startup, that seeks to accurately track forest carbon stocks in projects in the Brazilian and Peruvian Amazon and the US, using advanced remote-sensing technology, artificial intelligenc

BMO Global Asset Management making climate change a priority

BMO GAM has selected a range of specific focus issues for engagement in 2020 in relation to climate change.

Liontrust aims to reduce carbon emissions

The team are also asking for evidence that companies will have started the process of reducing carbon emissions before the end of this year.

Still pursuing green - Rathbones

As you would expect, the West Coast leads the way in sustainability, both among businesses and consumers.

Guernsey Green Fund to adopt EU green taxonomy

The Guernsey Green Fund is the world’s first regulated green fund regime

BlackRock urged to cut oil and gas stakes

BlackRock’s plan to divest from coal, announced last month, fails to satisfy green campaigners

Luxembourg sets out five-year sustainability plan

The agency plans to lead on sustainability and drive innovation in responsible governance

WWF: Asia PM’s must improve responsible investing

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) also offers an online tool to enhance asset managers’ responsible investment capabilities.

Climate crisis offers a green business boom

The tide is turning against the fossil fuel industry as countries and companies recognise the green business boom of alternative energy.

Watershed moment: As renewables rise, world must brace for era of disruption

The renewables revolution could lead to political upheaval, social fractures and economic crises if states fail to take bold decisions and cooperate with each other.

Growing environmental concern among the population

These are the first results from a survey on the environment, conducted by the Federal Statistical Office for the third time.

Comment - Should central banks join the fight against climate change? By Ahmed, JCRA

Only a few days before the BoE announced its revolutionary climate change-based stress test, we saw a breakdown of talks between governments at the UN Climate Talks

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