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ESG vs impact investing: what’s the difference?

Against a COVID-19 backdrop and new data on climate change trends, sustainable investing is maturing faster and generating greater interest in private markets than ever before.

Europe’s green opportunity

Now that the European Union has committed billions of dollars to stimulus spending geared toward confronting climate change, political and business leaders must ensure that these funds deliver the best possible return.

EBRD presents Green TFP awards

Today it plays a vital role in keeping the global economy afloat.

Schroders awarded ‘Advanced’ recognition in Morningstar ESG Commitment Level Assessment

This ranking expresses Morningstar’s analysts’ assessments of individual strategies and asset managers’ determination to incorporate ESG factors into their investment processes and organisations.

The butterfly economy and its investment potential

At Lombard Odier, we believe that the world is embarking on a necessary transition to a Circular, Lean, Inclusive and Clean economy.

Climate AI

How artificial intelligence can power your climate action strategy

The Global Sustainable Competitiveness Index 2020

Country performance is commonly expressed in GDP – but GDP numbers fail to reflect the underlying elements that shape the development of a country.

Fidelity's 2021 Global Outlook: Seizing The New Reality

In 2020, investors consistently chose to believe the best-case scenario, buoyed by liquidity from the Fed and other major central banks.

Climate change - The low-carbon transition

These policy shifts will drive major changes in business across entire value chains from product design to production, distribution and recycling.

Impact investing platform launches sustainability bond

The bond will be listed on the Luxembourg Green Exchange.

Revealed: Winners of Sustainable and ESG Investment Awards 2020

Relaunched awards honouring best ESG achievements

ESG label can't fool advisers

No client wants to be in an 'also-ran' product where a commitment to ESG did not come with a commitment to fiduciary duty.

Is it time for a standardised ESG framework, and will the IFRS lead the way?

The lack of clarity in ESG means it’s difficult to compare and analyse investments.

Coronavirus recovery could help us fight climate change

This means that by 2050, the UK aims to add no additional carbon to the atmosphere by balancing the amount of emissions we produce and take away.

DWS commits to climate neutrality

European investment manager DWS has also created an ESG advisory board.

The pandemic is only a prelude to a looming climate crisis

Despite long-standing and plentiful warnings from scientists about the risks of a pandemic, the world was woefully unprepared for this crisis.

Investors 'raising' renewables share of investments

Octopus Renewables surveyed companies globally representing $6.9 trillion under management

Kenya, Britain $11m climate change war chest ahead of Glasgow meeting

Kenya, a sustainable development powerhouse with an ambitious NDC target to reduce emissions by 30 per cent by 2030, had in earlier negotiations with UN Development Programme led by Resident Representative Walid Badawi, been challenged to set higher targe

Managers jump on ESG bandwagon but the best are specialists

New ESG entrants are rushing in, but good managers are long-tenured experts

Aligning forces: preserving Natural Capital to build a sustainable economy

Those who come too late in this process will be punished by history.

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