12/03/2021
N appeals for record $41 billion to end famine; new environment, social and governance platform, ESG Book, launched; renewables to account for 95% of increase in power capacity through 2026 - IEA.
12/03/2021
As set out in our March article, the SFDR is a significant part of the EU’s legislative approach to increasing the sustainability of the financial sector.
12/02/2021
$30 trillion by 2030 on the way to net zero.
12/02/2021
The Jupiter Global Sustainable Equities fund SICAV was launched in September, and it is the equivalent of the fund by the same name which has been available in the UK since 2018.
12/02/2021
These funds will be used to unlock up to 1 billion francs in additional private capital towards the SDGs in developing countries.
12/02/2021
The partnership will align the two companies more closely, allowing for greater collaboration and synergy in pursuit of the companies’ shared goal of understanding, advancing and investing in the global sustainability transition.
12/02/2021
Asset managers need to better plan and prepare for expected ESG funds growth, according to Broadridge research
12/01/2021
Business can be a force for good, innovating and scaling solutions to climate change.
12/01/2021
The business plans also announced that the FCA would focus on addressing greenwashing concerns as a priority.
12/01/2021
Six-member independent council to bolster KKR’s ESG expertise and capabilities and advance the firm’s ESG strategy and practices
12/01/2021
The Commission will also propose in 2022 an EU system of certifying carbon removals
11/30/2021
The 2021 United Nations’ COP26, took place early November.
11/30/2021
Pitching green, social, or good governance investments is big business in Switzerland.
11/30/2021
The recommendations are also designed to help at the point sale and ensure that financial advisors have access to all relevant information
11/30/2021
While there was clearly a lot of discussions and agreement on where investment flows need to go over the two-week summit, what was not discussed, or at least not widely, was where some of that capital comes from or what happens to it when it gets there.
11/30/2021
Credit Suisse publishes its 2021 Pension Fund Study
11/30/2021
71% of investors felt that richer countries should be helping poorer countries to transition to net zero.
11/30/2021
The report, Predictors of Success in a Greening World, offers a global, 25-year-long perspective on countries’ standing in global trade in high-growth green industries, and the extent to which each country has adequately directed their Covid-19 reco
11/30/2021
Others took a different view. Perhaps predictably, the teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg described the conference categorically as “a failure.”
11/30/2021
These developments represent the tip of the iceberg of the COP26 announcements, with more policy positions expected to be fleshed out in the coming year.