Corporate Knights
AUGUST 4, 2022
As the warming climate drives up temperatures and ignites wildfires across many parts of the globe this summer, a new study shows some of the world’s largest asset management companies have some of the smallest net-zero targets for their portfolios. . trillion in assets, came last at 4% net-zero assets under management.
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
Canada is lagging in its efforts to drive private capital into sustainable investments to finance solutions on climate change and other environmental challenges. Freeland was attending the Sustainable Finance Forum, which was organized by Liberal MP Ryan Turnbull and featured a half dozen of her cabinet colleagues.
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Chris Hall
JANUARY 3, 2024
C, and investee companies are not yet facing full scrutiny of their net zero transition strategies, posing challenges for institutional investors committed to decarbonising their portfolios in line with the Paris Agreement. Others might set a target for some or all portfolio companies to be net zero aligned by 2030.
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
by Jeff Finkelman, Managing Director, Sustainable Investing, Fiduciary Trust International. DESCRIPTION: Climate change represents a growing source of long-term investment risk and opportunity. Inaction will increase the “physical risks” of climate change, such as extreme weather, sea level rise, and wildfires.
Chris Hall
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Earlier this year, the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) wrote to EU lawmakers, calling for an “ambitious” outcome for EPBD-focused negotiations. The International Energy Agency has outlined that 50% of all existing buildings need to be net zero by 2040, increasing to 85% by 2050.
Chris Hall
OCTOBER 20, 2023
LGPS Central has stressed that its new Net Zero Strategy for long-term emissions reductions will not be derailed by the UK government’s recent watering down of climate policy. Climate change isn’t going to go away because we’ve got a general election in this country.
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Financial organisations thus have a major role to play in the decarbonisation of the global economy, yet it is estimated that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, the 60 largest banks have instead invested $5.5 Clearly much more needs to be done to pivot towards more sustainable investment and lending practices.
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