AO talk manager selection and data gap
Discussing how they integrate sustainability across their portfolios investors at New York State Common Fund, PKA, and TCorp, highlight the importance of manager selection and the challenge of the data gap.
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Prepare portfolios for tipping point
Political and social systems, like physical landscapes, have non-linear dynamics that suddenly reach tipping points after which there is no going back. Investors should ready their portfolios, urges Professor Cameron Hepburn, Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Oxford.
Taxonomies a revolutionary shift in ESG
The sustainability taxonomies are a generational shift in thinking about sustainability issues, according to the PRI which has published the first ever set of case studies on the use of the EU taxonomy.
How to integrate the SDGs
Integrating the SDGs involves analysing investee companies' core business, the products and services they sell, and mapping that to the SDGs. Two investors, APG and Schroders, outline the indepth process.
Collaboration needed in ESG movement
A cohort of ESG risks like climate change, lost biodiversity and poor working conditions have pushed sustainability centre stage, a roundtable of industry-wide experts who connected via video conference recently discussed.
Engagement and divestment: a mighty team
The empirical results of academic studies indicate that both engagement and divestment approaches can be effective in achieving desired ESG outcomes. So, far from being mutually exclusive, both engagement and divestment are mutually reinforcing.
Sustainability Digital – Sept 2020