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The nuclear option

Corporate Knights

W ith the nuclear calamities of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl fresh in the public mind, the 1980s saw a number of socially responsible investment funds pledge to keep nuclear energy out of their portfolios. Is the nuclear industry using a smokescreen of net-zero to cover up its sustainability problems?

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Synergies and Trade-offs at the Climate-nature Nexus

Chris Hall

Asset managers and owners invited to a roundtable discussion in Paris by ESG Investor and S&P Global Sustainable1 are only too aware of the complexities they face in investing along the climate-nature nexus. As Siga suggests, factoring climate change into investment decisions is more of a known quantity, if far from an exact science.

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US IRA Bridging ESG Gap with Red States

Chris Hall

Last year, Republicans states withdrew US$1 billion in assets f rom BlackRock o ver the asset manager’s E SG investment policies. A group of Republican states recently requested a federal judge in Texas to strike down a Biden administration rule allowing socially conscious investing by retirement plans.