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Portfolio Adviser: The outlook for global risk is “bleak” in the near and long term, with environmental concerns accounting for half of the top 10 risks over the long term in the 20th Global Risks Report published by the World Economic Forum.
ESG Today: World Bank Group member the International Finance Corporation (IFC) announced that it has raised $2 billion in a new social bond offering, with proceeds aimed at funding projects supporting low-income communities in emerging markets.
ESG News: Apollo Global Management and Standard Chartered PLC have entered into a strategic partnership to accelerate financing for infrastructure and renewable energy projects worldwide.
Funds Europe: Evergreen funds are a transformative development in the cross-border funds industry, allowing a broader range of investors to access private markets – which have generally outperformed traditional public markets over the last three decades.
ESG Dive: Barclays’ Group Head of Sustainability Laura Barlow is stepping down from her role, a spokesperson for the bank confirmed to ESG Dive. Barlow will remain with the bank in the capacity of a senior adviser.
BNN Bloomberg: The exodus of Wall Street’s biggest firms from prominent climate groups has been greeted with triumphant cheers from Republicans in the US who accuse such coalitions of colluding to boycott the fossil-fuel industry. It could prove to be a hollow victory, though.
ESG Today: The Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative, a major multi-trillion dollar group of investment managers committed to supporting the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, announced that it will suspend its primary activities, as it moves to adapt to a changing political and regulatory environment.
Funds Europe: Investment manager Schroders has secured a £5.2 billion sustainable investment mandate from UK wealth manager St. James’s Place, with the allocation transition set to begin in Q1 2025.
U.S. News: A turbulent year for sustainable finance is set to continue in 2025 as the return of Donald Trump as U.S. president heralds more regional divergence on everything from fund flows to legal cases and market regulations.
Legal Dive: There’s an anti-ESG movement in the United States but the larger trend is for more, not less, accountability for companies that try to push growth at the expense of these non-business values, according to the report.
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