01/09/2020
Northern Trust Asset Management Launches Sustainable Quantitative Solutions
Strategies Support Desire for Sustainability – Without Sacrificing Performance
Planet SOS
01/07/2020
Will our homes all be powered by renewable energy in 2030?
Early experiments with in-home battery technology have proven extremely successful.
01/03/2020
Why younger Aussies are right to favour ESG
With ESG becoming more mainstream and Millennials having a greater say, the financial service providers believe superannuation funds, pension funds and institutional investors are likely to follow retail investors.
01/03/2020
Private equity giants vow to show their ESG credentials in 2020
KKR and TPG to disclose their ‘impact’ investments as US politicians turn up heat
01/03/2020
Adapt or Perish
Preparing for the Inescapable Effects of Climate Change
01/03/2020
DBS adopts MSCI ESG ratings for its wealth management business
The adoption of the ratings comes amid mounting interest in ESG investing where ESG factors are taken into consideration when it comes to investment decision-making.
01/02/2020
Ambiguous sustainable investing will land investors in the dock
Most of those called out can escape with a spot of bad PR and some pledges to clarify what's on offer.
01/02/2020
Is it time to mandate on climate change reporting?
Investors are frustrated by the lack of transparency and inconsistent information around the financial impacts of climate change on businesses and the resilience of company strategies, both of which are critical inputs to investment valuations and decisio
01/02/2020
8 ways Seychelles has been recognised for its dedication to the environment, Blue Economy
NA presents a roundup of eight ways Seychelles has earned accolades for its Blue Economy initiative.
12/31/2019
7 countries that shook up the world in 2019
From post-apocalyptic red skies in Indonesia to vast swathes of the Amazon gone up in smoke, 2019 spelled doomsday for some countries while others worked to prevent the world from spiraling further towards climate catastrophe.
12/31/2019
New Year's resolutions: saving and environment come out top
“The start of a New Year is a natural time to review personal finances and begin the year as you mean to go on.
12/30/2019
Greta Thunberg: Attenborough inspired me to act on climate change
“She has achieved things that many of us who have been working on it for 20-odd years have failed to achieve and that is you have aroused the world.”
12/29/2019
Top of the Agenda: Climate change
The most devastating impact of climate change and extreme weather is always going to be loss of human life, but its effect on natural resources, infrastructure, supply chains, and employee health can be dire too, with potential impact on the bottom line o
12/27/2019
Seven disasters linked to climate change cost over $10 billion – each
The charity has catalogued 15 of the most destructive droughts, floods, fires, typhoons and cyclones of 2019, each of which caused damage of more than $1 billion (£770 million).
12/26/2019
Data Will Lead The Fight Against Climate Change
This insight is already shaping our responses to climate change and will become even more important in 2020.
12/26/2019
The big shortcoming: A grumpy 2020 for global growth
The OECD expects global growth to dip in the coming year to 2.9 per cent, its lowest level since the world recession of 2009.
12/24/2019
Can you own a private jet if you care about climate change?
Climate change protest movements such as Extinction Rebellion, as well as growing popular awareness about the environmental impact of fossil fuels, are giving commercial flyers a sense of "flight shame".
12/24/2019
Improving Millions Of Lives And Saving Billions of Dollars: Sustainable Investing And Criminal Justice Reform
Criminal justice advocacy group Worth Rises compiled the list of 3,905 companies, which includes multinational insurers with high market share in the bail bond industry.
12/22/2019
Why EU Climate Weapon Is in the Financial Fine Print
The EU is committed to meeting the targets of the Paris Agreement, and with new leaders just taking their posts, its ambitions are higher than ever.
12/20/2019
Beyond the ESG hype
Purists may disagree, but ESG has generally come to be understood as a catch-all term for the broader theme of ethically and socially responsible investing.