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Australia sued for not incorporating climate risk into sovereigns
23 July 2020In a global first, a lawsuit has been filed accusing Australia's federal authorities of breaching their duty of disclosure, and misleading and deceiving investors, by failing to disclose climate risk when issuing sovereign bonds.
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Legal Framework for Impact to fundamentally reshape finance, says Generation IM
26 May 2020The forthcoming Legal Framework for Impact "will fundamentally reshape the way finance and business is conducted in coming decades", according to Generation Investment Management.
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Time is ripe for US asset managers to engage oil majors
11 May 2020Domestic asset managers have been largely absent from climate engagement with US oil majors, but the Church Commissioners for England tells Ahren Lester that this could finally be changing.
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Biodiversity, shipping among Sustainalytics' impact trends for 2020
03 February 2020Sustainalytics has identified biodiversity and 'cleaner shipping' among 10 investment themes for 2020 it says look best placed to contribute positively to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and potentially create impact in addition to financial returns.
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Generation IM plots AI path around ESG data limitations
05 December 2019Digital technologies have opened up many new possibilities for collecting and processing data that should spark a ‘revolution’ and make environmental, social and governance (ESG) data more accurate, Generation Investment Management has claimed.
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ESG in fiduciary duty debate is over, says PRI
28 November 2019The debate about whether environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues are part of fiduciary duty "is now over", according to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).
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PRI to study ‘fundamental legal questions’ on impact investing
28 November 2019‘Fundamental legal questions’ surrounding impact investing will be the subject of a far-reaching study commissioned by the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).
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Generation Investment Management closes $1bn impact investing fund
22 May 2019Generation Investment Management LLP (GIM) has closed its $1 billion impact investment fund, Sustainable Solutions Fund III.
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UNEP FI calls for impact investors to join legal working group
22 February 2019Investors have been invited to join a working group to develop a ‘legal framework’ for impact investing by the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI).
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Generation forms long-term partnership with Canada’s CDPQ
09 October 2018Generation Investment Management has formed a novel partnership with a leading Canadian asset owner to pursue sustainable investment opportunities with a time horizon of eight - 15 years.