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Setting out our progress towards a sustainable transition
Our 2022 Sustainability Report[1] highlights our key achievements. These include our continued focus on integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into our fund offering, updated documentation with new sustainability indicators, and our commitment to support investing aligned with achieving net zero emissions by 2050.
Active Ownership 2022
Our Active Ownership report details how our Investment Stewardship and Investment teams exercised voting rights across our entire book and engaged with companies, policymakers and other stakeholders to aim to deliver positive change on topics including biodiversity and deforestation, fair pay and diversity.
Net zero: getting back to basics
What is meant by ‘net zero’, and what can asset managers do about it?
Gabriel Micheli on investing in the regenerative economy
A deep appreciation for nature runs in the family for senior investment manager Gabriel Micheli, who has been shaping environmental portfolios for the past 15 years.
Five things you need to know about biodiversity investing
Protecting biodiversity has become as important as tackling climate change. Up to one million species face extinction through unsustainable human development, and half of global GDP is linked to nature in some way, making it essential to adopt more nature-friendly business models.
Global extreme poverty: shocks and setbacks
In an article that appeared first on the ESG Clarity website, Abbie Llewellyn-Waters reflects on extreme poverty and on progress towards its eradication.
Green hydrogen - You may not smell it, but it is coming
It is green as well as colourless; vaporous, not vapid; fluid, yet powerful. Green hydrogen is all those things and increasingly it is being seen as a force for good given the promise that it holds as an alternative to fossil fuels.
Net Zero 2050: More affordable than ever, if we act now
Our research suggests the window to achieve a 1.5°C outcome, consistent with ‘net zero’ emissions by 2050, is closing fast. But it also highlights the surprisingly positive reductions in the cost to achieve such an outcome. The world’s energy and land systems underpin every economic activity we engage in, and every aspect of our day-to-day lives. The next quarter century is highly likely to see a dramatic re-engineering of these two interconnected systems. In our view this rebuilding is going to have far-reaching implications for investors, regardless of which climate outcome the world heads towards. It is likely to affect every company and country to whom investors provide their capital.
Why COP-15 marks a turning point for environmental investing
The landmark UN deal on tackling biodiversity loss aims to place businesses and investors in the front line in the battle to protect nature.
Robeco launches biodiversity paper and teams up with WWF-NL
We’ve published a positioning paper outlining Robeco’s approach to biodiversity and how we plan to incorporate it in our investment decisions and engage with companies to prevent further loss. The report also discusses our partnership with the World Wide Fund for Nature Netherlands and explains why investors need to act now.
Investors' top 5 sustainable challenges
A tectonic shift to sustainable investing comes with challenges for investors. Here’s how iShares can help
Climate Impact Pledge: Expanding our scope in 2023
Climate change continues to be an issue that we believe is critical for our clients’ portfolios. We have further expanded the Pledge’s scope this year, supporting
companies in scaling up their climate ambitions and engaging to drive positive change. We have also held more companies accountable than ever before through voting and investment sanctions.
Biochar: The future of net-zero agriculture?
What is biochar, and how could it help in addressing carbon emissions?
Robeco Climate Survey: Biodiversity investing is becoming mainstream
Investors are taking a much stronger stance on biodiversity, pushing the once niche topic into the mainstream.
35 years on: the compound effect of environmental solutions
The Jupiter Ecology Fund was launched 35 years ago, in 1988. Passing this milestone gives us the opportunity to look back, assess what has changed, and use lessons learned to continue to grasp the opportunities of the future for our clients.
Tackling Climata Change by Investing in Biodiversity
By investing in biodiversity alongside other climate strategies, companies can find new opportunities and manage risk.
Key takeaways:
1. Investors have developed strategies around climate-related risks, policies and disclosures, but haven’t put the same level of focus on biodiversity and nature-related risks.
2. Investing in biodiversity can help companies better achieve climate-related goals.
3. Prioritizing biodiversity in investments starts with assessing risks, understanding opportunities and having active ownership over these initiatives.
Investing for a positive retirement with private assets
With regulators raising the bar for pension funds on sustainability and ESG, we explore how to make a positive real-world impact while helping investors to make the right decisions for a comfortable retirement
Biodiversity: quantifying our impact on nature
Businesses and investors are stepping up efforts to measure how corporate activity affects the health of the biosphere, and in turn, how biodiversity loss impacts their own financial prospects.
From oil to batteries
We detail some of the obstacles to unlocking ‘green’ energy opportunities and discuss how investors can navigate them.
No longer on the sidelines – ESG in defined contribution
Just five years ago, DC schemes had no requirement to consider ESG but now the tides have turned. Tim Hodgson, Head of the UK DC Platforms and Retirement Solutions talks product innovation, member engagement, and investment stewardship
How to capture a megaforce
BlackRock’s Manuela Sperandeo and MSCI’s Mark Guirey discuss the vehicles that institutional investors can utilise to capture opportunities in the energy transition megaforce.
Labour Issues within the Supply Chain
A company’s supply chain can be an obscure element to its business that is difficult to manage and fully understand. Companies are faced with an array of labour issues throughout their supply chain’s landscape that can have devasting consequences financially and reputationally if underestimated or ignored.
Pioneering Transparent ESG Analysis on Public Markets: Leveraging Machine Learning to Transform ESG Data
Sifting through millions of pages from thousands of company documents to extract and meaningfully compare Environmental, Social, and Governance data is an exceptionally challenging task for professional investors. In this short paper, in a practitioner-talk inspired fashion, we share some of the Machine Learning journey Integrum ESG undertook to solve this challenge and how a blend of human and artificial intelligence allowed us to become the only ESG risk rating provider to deliver completely transparent and always up to date ESG risk analysis and Impact data.