Sustainable Investor
News
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Four-fifths of UK Asset Owners Meet New Stewardship Criteria
September 6, 2021Third of total applicants fail to satisfy Financial Reporting Council’s stricter ESG-based standards.
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Cautious Welcome for EU Social Taxonomy
September 6, 2021Industry warns on exclusion risks and insufficient minimum standards, as Europe looks to put social factors on par with environmental ones.
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Banks’ Net Zero Stances not Backed up by Policies
September 6, 2021ShareAction calls on European banks to publish “credible” climate and biodiversity strategies ahead of COP26.
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This Week’s Fund News: BlackRock Responds to Rising Demand with Bond ETF
September 3, 2021ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including BlackRock, WisdomTree, BNP Paribas AM, MetLife IM, The Wharton Social Impact Initiative and Penn Medicine.
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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: Moody’s ESG Data Solution for SDG Alignment
September 3, 2021ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Moody’s ESG Solutions, ISS ESG, MioTech, Ogier Global, GRMA, IdealRatings and GreenCo.
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Japan Proposes Mandatory Climate Risk Disclosures
September 2, 2021FSA to replace the ‘comply or explain’ model to help tackle climate change and give investors more insight on leading companies.
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Largest US Teachers’ Pension Fund Makes Net Zero Commitment
September 2, 2021CalSTRS pledge follows steady increase in climate-related action taken by the pension fund.
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Reinventing Finance
September 2, 2021Institutions have responded to COP26’s pledge to ‘mobilise finance’ with plans that will transform priorities and processes.
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Green Bond Investing Set to Hit US$1 Trillion Milestone In 2023
September 1, 2021Investors are turning to the climate debt market in record numbers with sustainability-linked bonds (SLB) starting to make their mark.
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LSEG Launches Sustainable Finance Innovation Unit in Singapore
September 1, 2021The new unit is supported by MAS and will focus on creating sustainable finance capabilities across Singapore’s FinTech ecosystem.
