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The Road to Net Zero
How the pandemic has sharpened the focus of energy companies on the low-carbon energy transition.
The five factors aligning to support EM debt outperformance
Pictet Asset Management believes that declining emerging market policy rates and rising global trade will drive the performance of EM debt – and if the US dollar declines and local manufacturing rebounds, we could see a “super boom”.
Pandemic, recession, economic crisis
COVID-19 has delivered an enormous global shock, leading to steep recessions in many countries. The baseline forecast by the World Bank envisions a 5.2 per cent contraction in global GDP in 2020—the deepest global recession in decades.
What’s at stake
This session examines research from Woodwell Climate Research Centre that assesses near-term physical and socioeconomic risks associated with climate change and demonstrates a model for embedding the insights of climate science into both public- and private-sector decision-making.
Financing Clean Energy Transitions in Emerging and Developing Economies
This special report aims to address the challenge of mobilising investment and finance to support clean energy transitions in the emerging and developing world.
Does ‘ESG’ spell ‘Embellished Shiny Grading’?
Is hyper focus on sustainable investing reminiscent of previous bubbles?
Asset Owner Technical Guide: Monitoring
A growing number of asset owners now expect their investment managers to incorporate ESG factors into their investment processes. This means that ESG needs to be at the core of the relationship between the asset owner and the investment manager – and that ESG considerations need to be addressed at every stage of that relationship, from setting the initial investment strategy, to drafting requests for proposals, to selection, appointment and monitoring.
Prosperity and preservation
Federated Hermes discusses how the exogeneous shock of the coronavirus pandemic has confirmed the importance of sustainability.
Social Conditions Consideration
The ultimate goal of economic policy is simple and timeless – to ensure prosperity and maximise living standards. Broad macroeconomic measures such as GDP growth, the unemployment rate, and inflation had for decades been a good proxy of rising prosperity, so they have dominated economic policy making and are enshrined in most central bank mandates. But even before the COVID-19 crisis, it had become clear that traditional economic measures have increasingly diverged from social outcomes.
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