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  • S&P launches ESG evaluation tool

    11 April 2019

    S&P Global Ratings has launched its long-awaited environmental, social and governance (ESG) evaluation tool, in a move that will throw it into direct competition with existing sustainability rating providers such as MSCI.

  • LGIM calls on policy makers to take action on climate change

    11 April 2019

    Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has called on governments to urgently bring in policies to tackle climate change, such as a carbon tax, after it conducted modelling that found there is a compelling economic case for immediate action.

  • GPIF invests in its first green bonds

    09 April 2019

    Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) has bought its first green bonds, snapping up a $500 million deal from the World Bank Group.

  • Two-thirds of ESG investors align investments with SDGs

    09 April 2019

    Among asset managers and owners with environmental social and governance (ESG) strategies, more than 65% align their investments with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to a recent survey.

  • ESG index launched based on S&P 500, followed by UBS ETF

    09 April 2019

    S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) has launched an environmental, social and governance (ESG) index which seeks to closely replicate the risk and return profile of its flagship US index, the S&P 500 index.

  • ASEAN green infrastructure facility aims to catalyse $1bn in blended finance

    08 April 2019

    Southeast Asian governments, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and major European development banks have joined forces to launch a blended finance facility that aims to invest more than $1 billion in green infrastructure across Southeast Asia.

  • Lloyd's syndicates go green in latest annual reports

    08 April 2019

    Several syndicates in the Lloyd's of London insurance market have used their latest annual reports to highlight the dangers of climate change and how they incorporate it into their risk management practices.

  • 13% of European insurance assets exposed to climate risk

    05 April 2019

    Eiopa tells French insurers at Paris conference

  • BlackRock: climate risks are not being priced-in

    04 April 2019

    The world's largest asset manager BlackRock has found evidence that physical climate risks are not being priced into investments, in a report that is expected to deliver "a thunderbolt for investors".

  • Why AP4 is making the shift to a 2°C aligned portfolio

    04 April 2019

    What is the outcome of AP4's series of scenario analyses so far, asks Elena K. Johansson.