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    78% of Europe’s Companies Fall Short of Adequately Reporting Environmental and Climate-related Risks Despite EU Guidelines

    2020-05-19

    Eco-Business: The findings from the latest analysis of environmental and climate-related disclosure by Europe’s major companies reveal that current corporate reporting practices could fall short on delivering on the objectives of the European Green Deal and the 2050 climate neutrality target.

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    Industry’s Reaction to the Coronavirus Could Be Good News for Diversity Push

    2020-05-18

    Pensions & Investments: While the coronavirus pandemic has damaged businesses and the economy, it may help to bring more women into the investment industry — and help eliminate some obstacles that may have kept them from more senior and prominent roles.

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    BlackRock Accused of Climate Change Hypocrisy

    2020-05-17

    Financial Times: BlackRock has been accused of double standards after it refused to back landmark environmental resolutions at two big Australian oil companies just months after the world’s largest asset manager warned global warming represented a risk to markets unlike any previous crisis. [Full article available to Financial Times subscriber]

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    Impact Integrity in Private Equity

    2020-05-01

    IPE: Even before a group led by The Rockefeller Foundation coined the term ‘impact investing’ in 2007, some firms had already started using private equity, venture capital and private debt strategies to generate both attractive financial returns and, at the same time, social or environmental impact for investors. 

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    Impact Investors Come Together to Tackle Economic and Social Costs of Coronavirus in New GIIN Coalition

    2020-05-15

    Institutional Asset Manager: The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) convened the new Response, Recovery, and Resilience Investment Coalition (R3) with the purpose of maximising global impact investing response efforts to the pandemic, by identifying high-impact investment opportunities and co-ordinating impact investors to fill financing gaps.

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    ‘Green Swan’ Coronavirus Shock Proves Need for Joint Climate Action

    2020-05-14

    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.

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    ESG Has Failed to Outperform for Years. Is This a Fix?

    2020-05-13

    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.

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    Asset Managers Failing on Human Rights Abuse

    2020-05-13

    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.

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    Crisis Shines Spotlight on the 'S' in ESG

    2020-05-12

    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.

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    Keeping Tabs on Offsetting

    2020-05-01

    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.

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