Archive

  • Shareholders to march on AGM season buoyed by Paris & TCFD

    31 March 2017

    With more than 100 environmental shareholder resolutions already filed, it is financial firms as well as the oil & gas majors that are in the firing line, reports Joe Walsh

  • How to eliminate child labour from the battery business

    29 March 2017

    A multi-stakeholder collaboration is needed to stamp out the use of child labour in the mining of cobalt for lithium-ion batteries, says Benedikt Sobotka.

  • Responsible investment grows 25% in two years

    28 March 2017

    The value of assets managed under responsible investment strategies have ballooned 25% over the past two years, thanks to rapid growth in countries such as Japan and the US, according to a report.

  • PME to link 10% of assets to SDGs

    27 March 2017

    Dutch metal and engineering pension scheme Pensionfonds van de Metalektro (PME) will link 10% of its €45 billion ($48.6 billion) in assets to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) over the next five years.

  • Aviva calls for global definition of fiduciary duty incorporating sustainability

    23 March 2017

    UK insurance giant Aviva has called on the UN, OECD and G20 to adopt universal rules on fiduciary responsibility that allow the investors to incorporate longer-term risks such as climate change.

  • Asset manager devises Sustainable Development Goals tagging system

    22 March 2017

    An asset manager has developed a system to tag equities according to whether they help meet the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

  • Nippon Life pledges to invest a further JPY200bn in ESG bonds

    21 March 2017

    Japanese insurer Nippon Life has pledged to invest a further JPY200 billion ($1.7 billion) in environmental, social and governance (ESG) themed bonds and similar products as part of a responsibility drive.

  • TCFD: A full disclosure

    20 March 2017

    Will the Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) report change the landscape for investors, asks Hamza Ali

  • Two insurers invest $17m in weather predictive technology

    17 March 2017

    Established modellers are "charging too much and delivering too little", says Weather Analytics

  • EF BRIEFS: Invenergy, Green Climate Fund, Borealis

    15 March 2017

    Invenergy, a Chicago-based clean energy company, has bought a 64MW solar power plant in Uruguay for an undisclosed price.