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  • Investors wake up to collective engagement clout

    26 March 2018

    Climate-related resolutions at Exxon and Shell garnered the support of the world's largest investors. Now asset managers and owners are massing together to move entire sectors, writes Michael Hurley.

  • Figueres: infrastructure bonds should be green bonds

    20 March 2018

    Former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres issued a rallying call for cities, governments and large companies to issue green bonds to finance their infrastructure projects, as she seeks to shift the market's growth into a higher gear.

  • Exxon takes encouraging disclosure steps but must go further, investors say

    08 February 2018

    The latest climate-related disclosures by oil giant ExxonMobil fail to go far enough in setting out how climate change is likely to impact its business, say an influential group of investors that led last year's successful shareholder resolution against the company.

  • Green bond comment, January 2018: What has the green bond market ever done for us?

    08 February 2018

    In the classic film Monty Python's Life of Brian, a group plotting to overthrow the Roman Empire ask: 'What have the Romans ever done for us?'

  • New York State pension fund commits extra $2bn to low-carbon index

    01 February 2018

    The $203 billion New York State Common pension fund has doubled its exposure to its own low-carbon index to $4 billion.

  • Major investor initiative to tackle climate change on four fronts announced

    01 February 2018

    A landmark initiative to spur investors to attack climate change on the four fronts of engagement, disclosure, low-carbon investing and policy advocacy has been launched.

  • People moves: Generation Investment Management, S&P Global Ratings, Ceres, Crowell & Moring and Global Thinkers Forum

    26 January 2018

    Generation Investment Management has appointed John Bernstein as partner and chairperson of its growth equity investment committee.

  • Shareholder climate success at Exxon

    31 May 2017

    A shareholder resolution calling for ExxonMobil to do more to tackle climate change received a significant majority, despite not being backed by the board.

  • Public/private-sector coalition formed to promote green investment opportunities

    11 December 2015

    Investors, asset managers, government bodies and others have formed an alliance to promote investment opportunities in green infrastructure.

  • Investor groups urge asset owners to beef up action on climate change

    22 April 2015

    A global coalition of institutional investors has urged asset owners to take more action on climate change.