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Use Climate Experience for Fast TNFD Adoption, Investors Told

Chris Hall

Stewardship synergies NBIM’s Snorre suggested that investors should look to explore synergies between new nature-related risk and reporting processes and existing sustainable investment activities stemming from climate risks, such as engagement activity with portfolio companies to reduce deforestation. “If

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This Week’s Fund News: Federated Hermes Partners with UK Museum on Biodiversity

Chris Hall

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Federated Hermes, SLM Partners, DIF, PGGM, MEAG and Future Planet Capital. . SLM Partners is an asset manager which specialises in sustainable land and real assets.

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Take Five: Onwards and Upwards

Chris Hall

In both the public and private sectors, this week saw incremental progress in support of sustainable investment objectives, rather than transformative changes. A selection of this week’s major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces. 

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Delays Stoke Doubt Over UK Green Finance Policies

Chris Hall

COP27 deadline for Green Finance Strategy likely to be missed, as investors await details on sustainable investment framework. Investors are expecting details this week on the new UK government’s strategy on energy and inflation, but time is running out for updates on key climate and green finance policies ahead of COP27.

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All Systems go for Net Zero

Chris Hall

Paul Lee, Head of Stewardship and Sustainable Investment Strategy at investment consultancy Redington, says concerns that fiduciary duty may constrain investor action on climate change or indeed ESG risks more broadly are overstated. C has not lessened; if anything, it has increased,” he says.

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Unfinished Business

Chris Hall

Mixed picture Do climate-related disclosures provide investors with the decision-useful information they need as they seek to reduce portfolios emissions while orientating capital to climate-positive investments?

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Least Paris-aligned Firms are Most Engaged on US Climate Policy

Chris Hall

Kendra Haven, InfluenceMap’s US Program Manager, said the intensive engagement of US utilities and energy firms illustrated a “trend that we see globally”, with the “most negatively-engaging corporate actors tend to be the most active, leaving a deficit in active, positive advocacy on climate policy by huge portions of the corporate sector”. .