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Funds Europe: Index provider S&P Dow Jones Indices has added the S&P Biodiversity Indices to its sustainability-focused performance benchmarking tools range for asset managers and financial institutions.
BNN Bloomberg: BNP Paribas Asset Management says ESG clients have been piling into money market funds, drawn by the allure of stable returns in cash-like instruments.
ESG Today: A key piece of EU legislation setting mandatory obligations for companies to address their negative impacts on human rights and the environment was dealt a significant blow, failing to achieve final approval by the European Council, following objections from countries including Germany and Italy, despite a provisional agreement on the regulation reached earlier by the Council with the EU Parliament.
Funds Europe: An overwhelming majority of investors consider that climate risk will have a highly significant impact on their infrastructure investment but say that they do not know how to measure this risk and therefore manage it, according to research.
BNN Bloomberg: When global warming is politicized, professional investors are unable to do their jobs properly. That’s the key message from the world’s biggest investor coalition on climate change after several of its largest members left the group this month.
ESG Today: Deutsche Bank announced the release of a new Sustainable Finance Framework, outlining the methodologies and procedures, including the environmental and social criteria and categories, used by the bank to classify transactions and financial products as “sustainable.”
BNN Bloomberg: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is seeking information from the Federal Reserve about whether some asset managers are breaching agreements with the central bank because of their links to climate-finance groups.
GreenBiz: Companies with ambitious environmental objectives are failing to reconsider or disclose their affiliations with trade groups that actively lobby against climate goals and decarbonization policies, a new study has found.
BNN Bloomberg: Despite the recent anti-ESG pushback in the US, many companies — roughly 90% in a survey by KPMG — plan to dedicate more financial resources to ESG over the next three years.
Forbes: Environmental, social and governance (ESG) has evolved into a crucial new corporate strategy and management discipline. It combines corporate social responsibility, supply chain strategy, production, vendor and supplier management, logistics, and employee behavior.
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