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Bloomberg: The coronavirus pandemic that’s sent the global economy into a tailspin highlights the need for international collaboration to tackle crises posing severe threats to human lives, chief among them climate change.
Institutional Investor: Investors who avoid the stocks of the biggest polluting companies or those with no women in their senior ranks do about as well as a passive index fund.
Funds Europe: A large majority of the world’s largest asset managers are “paying lip service” to prevent human rights abuse, but few take meaningful action.
Private Equity Wire: The global spread of Covid-19 has increased awareness of systemic issues that predate and have been exacerbated by the pandemic. The virus has raised questions of who and what we – or rather, our economic systems – value, as well as questions around the nature of work, our collective humanity and the role of business in society.
IPE: Companies are increasingly making net-zero emission commitments. They can deliver on those in a number of ways, including through purchasing emission reduction credits from third parties or directly funding projects in areas like renewable energy or negative emissions from third parties rather than by cutting their own emissions.
BNAmericas: New sustainability guidance will give increased confidence to local communities, industry and investors that hydropower projects can be successfully developed while respecting Indigenous People’s lands, rights and culture.
Institutional Asset Manager: Asset managers, including Fidelity International, Aviva Investors, and Invesco, have outlined their initiatives to close the gender pay gap, as scrutiny returns to the male-dominated financial services industry.
Bloomberg: Key investor advisory groups are divided on whether Rio Tinto Group shareholders should support a demand for the world’s No. 2 miner to extend the range of its targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Bloomberg: Italian private equity firm Ambienta SGR SpA is starting its first hedge fund, led by former Man GLG money manager Fabio Pecce, to bet on and against companies based on their green credentials.
Pensions & Investments: Research published Tuesday by the Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment concluded that by implementing climate-friendly, green policies in COVID-19 economic recovery packages, governments and policymakers can deliver better results — including the creation of more jobs and increased long-term cost savings — than through more traditional stimulus.
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