Sustainability

Energy crisis turns investors off prescriptive shareholder resolutions

In a recent stewardship update, BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, warned that it will support fewer shareholder resolutions on climate change this year because they have become too extreme and prescriptive.

Sarah RundellMay 17, 2022

Sustainability in Practice

Lessons from the mining sector: Engage with the issue, not the company

Sarah RundellMay 16, 2022

Sustainability in Practice

Investors need to wake up to the value of natural capital

Sarah RundellMay 16, 2022

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The business as usual oil groups betting against Paris

Sarah RundellMay 16, 2022

Sustainability in Practice

Boost to legal infrastructure behind sustainable investment

Sarah RundellMay 10, 2022

Sustainability in Practice

PGGM’s journey to invest for risk, return and impact

The €268 billion Dutch pension provider PGGM is leading its global peers when it comes to shaping 3D portfolios based around risk, return and impact. Piet Klop, head of responsible investment discusses the challenges of investing for outcomes.

Sarah RundellMay 10, 2022

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Sir David King: The role of technology in creating a manageable future

Net zero objectives are not enough according to Professor Sir David King, founder and chair, Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge University and UK government chief scientific advisor from 2000 to 2007 who urged investors to stop using fossil fuels which he says equates to borrowing from the future.

Sarah RundellMay 5, 2022

Sustainability in Practice

CPP drives new corporate framework for emission abatement

CPP Investments’ proposal for projecting the capacity of companies to abate greenhouse gas emissions can help corporate boards and executives better understand the least and most polluting elements of their business, and steer investor capital to industries with lower emissions, said Richard Manley, managing director, head of sustainable investing, CPP.

Sarah RundellMay 5, 2022

Sustainability in Practice

Net zero alignment: Assign portfolio managers strict carbon budgets

A new paper outlines how investors can align their portfolio to science-based carbon budgets consistent with 1.5 degrees of warming.

Sarah RundellMay 5, 2022

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The transition from ESG to SDG

Asset owners reflect on the challenges of integrating the SDGs like problems aligning fiduciary duty to some of the targets of the 17 goals and the fact most of the capital going into the SDGs flows into listed companies in the global north.

Sarah RundellMay 2, 2022

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Cambridge endowment talks inflation and divestment

Rising inflation will make it more challenging to meet the £4 billion Cambridge University Endowment Fund’s 5 per cent return hurdle, said Tilly Franklin, CIO, speaking at Sustainability in Practice. Franklin oversees a multi asset, diversified portfolio that is managed externally. The fund has significantly outperformed over the long term (10-year returns are 11 per […]

Sarah RundellMay 2, 2022

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