Leading ASI’s climate agenda is Eva Cairns, Senior ESG Investment Analyst. Aberdeen Standard Investments talk to Eva on host of topics, from about her wide-ranging views on responsible investment and her passion in helping address climate change, to why she’s so keen that we all “grow the pie”.
Listen to The ASI Responsible Investing podcast: The climate agenda here.
One of the most important, upcoming challenges at CalSTRS is how the fund should evaluate Chinese investments from a human capital and environmental standpoint, says Chris Ailman, chief investment officer at the giant pension fund.
Investors in Canada and Australia have joined the Dutch funds, APG and PGGM, in making their intention of an AI-driven SDG investment platform a reality - the Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform.
Climate change has started to significantly affect many firms, but properly quantifying firm-level exposure to climate change risks and opportunities is a challenge for investors, regulators and policy makers.
William Nordhaus favors a carbon tax to slow climate change but his own model shows that the UN’s target would make humanity poorer than doing nothing at all about climate change.
William Nordhaus favors a carbon tax to slow climate change but his own model shows that the UN’s target would make humanity poorer than doing nothing at all about climate change.
If we really want to reform capitalism, then impact investing as it is traditionally conceived will not be enough.
The impact investing movement has overcome many challenges, however more obstacles lie ahead even as there is untapped potential for growth.
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