The blockage of the Strait of Hormuz has left the world facing another energy crisis and warning bells of a global recession are growing increasingly shrill. Ostensibly, the crisis could also push the energy transition back as governments and companies scramble to shoulder the cost of $100 per barrel of oil and prepare for higher
After a tentative agreement was achieved by global leaders in Durban in December more than 500 global investors will meet at the United Nations next week to discuss the investment needed to address climate change. The chief executive officers of CalPERS and CalSTRS, as well as the comptrollers of New York’s state and local public
The formal approval of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) was a critical outcome of the UN climate change conference in Durban, according to Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisors, but the lack of funding for the GCF remains a concern.
Someone once told me the reason the Dalai Lama is always smiling, even when he’s talking about war, is that his view of the world, and all its troubles, is like a knowing father watching a child work through the wonderment and challenges of life. It is with this view that institutional investors must face
Serious investors need to look at the sustainability of capital and their responsibility under UNPRI. They are not serious about their ESG commitment.
As the G20 meeting looms, Sharan Burrow, general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), told delegates at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium to stop acting as if fiduciary management existed in a bubble.
A joint statement from a group of 285 investors representing more than $20 trillion has called for a binding international legal framework that will provide the long-term certainty needed to encourage the large-scale private investment necessary to tackle climate change.
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