02/12/2020
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.
Planet SOS
02/05/2020
Generali Investments launches first sub-fund investing in green and sustainable bonds
The green bond market is in continuous expansion, driven by an increasing demand, regulation and the adoption by many issuers and institutional investors.
02/04/2020
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.
02/03/2020
Guernsey Green Fund to adopt EU green taxonomy
The Guernsey Green Fund is the world’s first regulated green fund regime
02/03/2020
BlackRock urged to cut oil and gas stakes
BlackRock’s plan to divest from coal, announced last month, fails to satisfy green campaigners
01/31/2020
Luxembourg sets out five-year sustainability plan
The agency plans to lead on sustainability and drive innovation in responsible governance
01/30/2020
EQ Investors signs up to climate-change investing pact
EQ has joined Climate Action 100+, the world's largest group of investors by assets pressuring companies to act on climate change
01/29/2020
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
01/29/2020
Environmental issues dominate threat list
The challenges before us demand immediate collective action, but fractures within the global community appear to only be widening.
01/28/2020
Comment: The side-effects of ESG investing
This step can only be a first move, as other producers of fossil energy have similar effects on climate change and need to be removed from portfolios as well.
01/28/2020
Sainsbury’s targets reducing carbon emissions
Sainsbury’s has promised to reduce its net carbon emissions to zero over the next 20-years.
01/27/2020
Climate rebel tycoon nets tainted millions: How Extinction Rebellion's British hedge fund backer profits from 'dirty' firms
Sir Chris Hohn has donated £200,000 to Extinction Rebellion
01/24/2020
Davos 2020 and climate change: How investment risks have shifted over a decade
As recently as ten years ago the environment didn’t register in the top risks for discussion at the World Economic Forum. Now it dominates. This has important implications for investors.
01/23/2020
How to Change Course on Climate
The situation is dire, but it’s not too late.
01/23/2020
The Great Climate Shift - Saxo
The green transformation will also drive many positive advances as the need for adaptation spurs
01/22/2020
‘Green Swan’: Bankers warn of climate change risks
Traditional backward-looking risk assessments and existing climate-economic models cannot anticipate accurately enough the form that climate-related risks will take.
01/21/2020
Davos 2020: Greta Thunberg is saving the planet AND reshaping the global investment industry
Her comments at the elite meeting in the Swiss mountain town came just before U.S. President Donald Trump – a global warming sceptic – was due to make a keynote address.
01/20/2020
Aberdeen Standard Investments - 2020 outlook
Aberdeen Standard Investments sees structural growth opportunities in Chinese equities and emerging market (EM) bonds in 2020.
01/20/2020
Austrian Boerse to join Sustainable Stock Exchange Initiative
As politically anchored in the new Austrian government program, sustainability goals and innovative business models should go hand in hand.
01/19/2020
Don’t expect the earth from fund managers on climate change
Decarbonisation is the responsibility of government, not altruistic businessmen