ESG Today: BlackRock and Temasek’s decarbonization-focused fund Decarbonization Partners announced that it has raised $1.4 billion at the final close of its inaugural fund, Decarbonization Partners Fund I, well ahead of the firm’s $1 billion fundraising target.
ESG Clarity: 160 global financial institutions and two industry stakeholders have signed a statement calling on governments to negotiate an “ambitious treaty” to end plastic pollution ahead of negotiations taking place at the fourth meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution (INC-4).
BNN Bloomberg: Global ESG investors with $9.5 trillion under management say it’s time to demand more accountability from private markets, amid evidence they’re increasingly absorbing fossil-fuel assets.
Funds Europe: Investors face hurdles in obtaining reliable and comparable climate-related data, crucial for assessing investment risks and opportunities tied to climate change, a report by the CFA Institute has shown.
GreenBiz: ESG analysis helps investors consider how environmental, social and governance factors could affect long-term corporate value.
ESG Clarity: More listed companies are setting science-based targets, and emissions disclosures are growing, but companies’ decarbonisation trajectories still place them on a path to warm the planet by 3 degrees celsius, the latest MSCI Net-Zero Tracker report has revealed.
ESG Today: Alternative investment data and insights provider Preqin announced the launch of new ESG performance benchmarks aimed at enabling users to assess performance of private markets ESG funds, as well as SFDR, impact and climate funds.
Forbes: Despite warnings of a backlash against sustainability over the last couple of years, the environmental, social and governance issues that underpin the buzzword are clearly hardening into business imperatives.
ESG Today: The vast majority of professional investors globally have put in place ESG investment policies over the past several years, with investors looking both to minimize sustainability-related risk and capitalize on opportunities.
GreenBiz: As the 2024 proxy season gets underway — and as climate disasters occur with increasing frequency, costing hundreds of billions in damages and business disruptions in recent years — many shareholder resolutions at large public companies focus on the climate crisis.
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