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  • 12 UK pension funds aim to support EM transition

    12 May 2022
  • Investors target Volkswagen for climate lobbying

    05 April 2022

    Seven European investors have co-filed a shareholder resolution with Volkswagen for "trailing behind its peers" to report its climate lobbying, after more than three years of dialogue with the car company.

  • Extracting higher standards from the mining sector

    03 February 2022

    A $20 trillion investor initiative is driving change in the mining industry, write Madeleine Jenkins and Peter Cripps

  • 3 years after Brumadinho, "next dam collapse is only a matter of time"

    25 January 2022

    On the third anniversary of the Brumadinho mining disaster, which killed 270 people, investors have named and shamed almost 200 companies that have not committed to new dam safety standards.

  • Simplifying the CA100+ net-zero benchmark is 'laughable'

    13 January 2022

    Criticism of the Net-Zero Company Benchmark developed by Climate Action 100+ (CA100+) being "too complicated" has been described as "laughable,"...

  • Investor welcome for Shell exit from Cambo oil project

    03 December 2021

    Oil supermajor Shell has backed out of investing in the Cambo oilfield project in Scotland in a move described as a "deathblow" for the controversial project...

  • $14trn investor group pushes for AGM vote on 'net zero' claims

    30 July 2021

    A group of 53 investors with a combined $14 trillion of assets under management has called for new climate-related corporate governance measures, including an annual general meeting (AGM) vote on corporate 'net zero' transition plans.

  • Investors urged to join sovereign climate performance assessment project

    17 May 2021

    Investors have been urged to get involved in a project to develop an assessment framework for the carbon performance of sovereigns, currently backed by groups including the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) and Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI).

  • $8trn investors back IIGCC 'Net Zero Investment Framework' launch

    10 March 2021
  • Investor-backed mining and tailings initiative outlines next steps

    26 January 2021