
CNBC: Central banks around the world must proactively fight climate change in their own investment portfolios in order to safeguard their key priorities, according to research.
Top 1000 Funds: Around 750 of the world’s largest listed companies are being encouraged by investors to disclose more workforce data. These companies have this week been sent the ‘Workforce Disclosure Initiative’ (WDI) survey. Supporting this call for data is a group of 127 investor signatories – including AustralianSuper, PGGM, OPTrust and USS – collectively managing $14 trillion.
Green Biz: Global issuance of green bonds has hit yet another milestone: for the first time surpassing $100 billion inside six months, the Climate Bonds Initiative confirmed.
IPE: Renewed calls from hundreds of major investors for governments to act to cap further global warming may this time be followed by political action, analysis has suggested.
Wall Street Journal: When Floris Fooij proposed a $1.7 million upgrade for the vitamin plant he oversees in New Jersey a few months ago, he did something he wouldn’t have done in the past: He mapped out for the finance team how the upgrade would affect the firm’s greenhouse-gas emissions.
IPE: English evangelical protestants allied with the Quakers initiated the campaign to abolish the UK slave trade in the early nineteenth century. Two centuries later, the Vatican has said that climate change is a “moral and religious imperative for humanity”. Will the fate of fossil fuel companies be defined by public, sovereign and religious investors? And can other investors watch from the sidelines?
Wall Street Journal: Impact investors are meeting their community and environmental goals without giving up financial returns on their deals, an advocacy group’s latest survey shows.
Citywire Selector: Almost twice as many hedge fund firms demonstrated good ESG practices in comparison to last year, LGT Group's annual ESG report found.
IR Magazine: A group of 88 investors – including HSBC Global Asset Management, Amundi and Investec Asset Management, and with combined assets totalling more than $10 bn – is pushing for companies to do more when it comes to environmental reporting.
Bloomberg: A group of financiers with $100 billion of loans to shipowners are about to get stricter on the kinds of vessels they’ll finance as part of a drive to improve the maritime industry’s environmental performance.
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