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Is Missing 1.5°C the End of the World?

Chris Hall

C temperature pathway. Last year, the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) ‘ Emissions Gap Report ’ said climate policies enacted worldwide could result in 2.8°C C as possible, experts say. The IPR forecasts that climate policies put in place since COP26 set the world on a 1.8°C C of global warming by 2100 – and between 2.4-2.6°C

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ESG Explainer: Line of Duty

Chris Hall

In 2005, a group of investment managers organised under the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) commissioned law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to publish a report , ‘A Legal Framework for the Integration of ESG Issues into Institutional Investment’. How does fiduciary duty relate to sustainable investment?

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