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  • Will the taxonomy deliver?

    12 July 2019

    Will the EU's taxonomy succeed in boosting the flow of finance to a low-carbon economy, asks Elena K Johansson

  • BNP Paribas AM commits to wide-ranging sustainability strategy

    21 March 2019

    BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) is introducing a global sustainability strategy, which builds on various initiatives announced in recent years and sets a number of targets for the future.

  • BNP Paribas asset management arm plans €1bn coal divestment

    14 March 2019

    BNP Paribas Asset Management plans to exclude about €1 billion ($1.1 billion) of stocks in thermal coal companies, as part of a new exclusion policy the firm hopes will help it align with the Paris Agreement goals.

  • Investors challenge ESMA’s definition of sustainability risks

    26 February 2019

    BlackRock, Aviva and BNP Paribas Asset Management have each presented varying definitions of sustainability risks, in response to a consultation on how the EU should regulate investment fund managers.

  • EU’s TEG reveals how taxonomy will work in practice

    15 February 2019

    Members of the EU’s Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (TEG) have revealed how its taxonomy will work in practice.

  • Set climate targets, power sector told by investors with $11trn in assets

    20 December 2018

    Twelve of Europe’s highest-emitting power companies have been instructed to set out Paris-aligned transition plans by a group of investors with $11.5 trillion in assets under management (AUM), as they warn of the ‘potentially catastrophic’ effects of climate change.

  • People Moves: BNP Paribas, Boralex, ICG

    14 December 2018

    BNP Paribas Asset Management has hired Carbon Tracker Initiative head of research and managing director Mark Lewis.

  • $32trn group of investors demand greater government climate action

    10 December 2018

    Investors with a combined $32 trillion in assets have demanded governments increase action to tackle climate change.

  • People Moves: CalSTRS, BNP Paribas, ERAFP, GWEC, FC4S and Cornerstone

    26 October 2018

    Kirsty Jenkinson has been appointed as director of corporate governance at the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) and replaces Anne Sheehan, who retired in March.

  • Ambachtsheer leaves Mercer to join BNP

    20 July 2018

    Jane Ambachtsheer has left her role at consultancy giant Mercer to join BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM).