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IPE: More than a thousand Google employees have signed a public letter calling on the company to take bold action on climate change. They joined employees in other companies such as Amazon and Microsoft who published similar letters, calling their companies to take real action on climate change in response to the climate crisis.
IPE Real Assets: The term ‘stranded assets’ has long been used to describe oil, gas and coal reserves that need to be prematurely devalued due to their carbon-intensive properties. However, the term is increasingly being applied to other sectors with assets that are at risk of losing their value due to climate change.
Citywire: Legal & General Investment Management, Allianz Global Investors and UBS Asset Management are the three large-scale asset managers that strongly and consistently engage with companies to align their business models with the Paris climate targets.
Citywire: Lack of standardization in reporting and data was the leading concern, with 58% of those surveyed for the report viewing it as the biggest challenge. This is while half of the respondents saw the lack of relevant disclosures from clients as equally challenging.
HedgeWeek: ESG governance considers a number of factors that determine the sustainability and ethical impact of an investment. As such, greater regulation of ESG investments could help ensure they meet the standards required, ranging from a company’s energy use to how much pollution it creates.
IPE: As of today, the ESG ratings of more than 2,800 companies – those making up the MSCI ACWI index – are accessible via a search tool on msci.com. Next year a further 4,700 companies will be covered as MSCI ESG Research said it planned to make publicly available the ESG ratings for more than 7,500 companies in the MSCI ACWI Investable Markets Index.
Bloomberg: Major fund managers, including BlackRock Inc. and Amundi Asset Management, are running into a roadblock as they seek to put more money into emerging-market sustainable investments: a lack of common global definitions that would make it easier to identify what to buy.
IPE: In India, where there is next to no focus on ESG, there is a growing realisation that externalities matter in areas like water management or rice production, which is highly water intensive.
IPE: Green bonds may be the poster child of ESG approaches to emerging market debt (EMD) but a focus on ESG criteria goes deeper. Indeed, the rationale for investing in emerging market sovereign debt is to gain exposure to improving economies.
GRESB: Combining Verisk Maplecroft’s global risk analytics with GRESB’s geo-coded asset-data and adaptation measures, the scorecard provides location-specific intelligence on climate change and ESG exposure to create a unique risk-adjusted and asset-level benchmark of global real estate investment.
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