ESG Today: The European Commission announced that it has sent letters to 17 EU member states, opening infringement procedures with the states over their failure to communicate that they have fully transposed the new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) into their national laws.
Funds Europe: The UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) recently celebrated its fifth anniversary at New York Climate Week by reporting annual emissions reductions of at least 6%, aligning with the 1.5°C pathway established by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Portfolio Adviser: While 83% of European asset managers have measurable goals in place for gender equality, just 19% have a similar system in place for social mobility, a report from the Diversity Project Europe has found.
ESG News: Upright has just launched a groundbreaking open database, the first of its kind, covering the science-based impact of over 35,000 mutual funds and ETFs worldwide.
Funds Europe: A report released by the CFA Institute Research and Policy Center, the global association of investment professionals, has called for greater rigour in the classification of ESG funds.
BNN Bloomberg: For TotalEnergies SE Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanne, the difference in the performance of his company’s stock and that of Exxon Mobil Corp., the largest US producer of oil and gas, is in no small part explained by an acronym: ESG.
ETF Stream: The BNP Paribas Easy Sustainable US UCITS ETF and BNP Paribas Easy Sustainable Japan UCITS ETF listed on Euronext Paris with a total expense ratio (TER) of 0.20%. Both ETFs will be listed on Deutsche Boerse later this month.
BNN Bloomberg: A tax break intended to lure ESG investors to Luxembourg is proving elusive, with little sign asset managers have been able to take advantage of the perk in the almost four years since it was introduced.
ESG Today: Sustainability-focused investor interest appears to have undergone a significant shift towards investments in companies enabling a ‘brown to green’ transition, with net inflows into transition focused funds in the EU nearly doubling those into environmental funds over the past 2 years.
Portfolio Adviser: The fund is available as an EU-domiciled VCC in Europe. It aims to achieve long-term capital growth by investing in a portfolio of 30 to 60 companies in the Asia-Pacific region, including Japan, which are helping to bring about a more sustainable future.
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