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The world’s largest money manager has been pressured to back climate-related shareholder resolutions, in a letter addressed to its CEO Larry Fink by investors and NGOs.

More than 15 major institutional investors and organisations representing several hundred companies have joined forces in support of a new initiative "to eradicate plastic waste and pollution at source".

Boston Common Asset Management has added its name to the growing number of financial institutions that have endorsed a set of principles for investing to support the world’s oceans.

Climate change poses a significant threat to banks. How big is their exposure to climate risks, and what are they doing to mitigate them, asks Peter Cripps

Banks' attempts to adapt to the risks and the opportunities presented by climate change have been criticised as "often skin deep at best" by a coalition of $2 trillion of investors.

Investors in Asia's meat, seafood and dairy industries "face a range of badly managed sustainability risks with significant potential to derail returns," a report has warned.

Anheuser-Busch (AB) InBev, the world's largest brewer, has signed up to the RE100 initiative, following extensive shareholder engagement.

Investors should use their position as shareholders to ensure the financial sector makes better progress to mitigate climate change, according to a new report.

A group of major investors has called on banks involved in the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) to re-route it so that it does not cross Native American treaty land.

Banks have made considerable progress in addressing climate risks and opportunities in their business practices to align with a 2°C global warming target, but it is still not enough, according to a new report.