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Water utilities face a conundrum as they look to invest to address environmental issues, Thomas Cox writes

Almost all European or Asian water funds posted negative returns over the past year, writes Thomas Cox

Nuclear and natural gas are negatively aligned with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) due to environmental concerns, despite the EU classifying them as sustainable,...

The US Senate has passed the flagship economic package of President Joe Biden which includes $369 billion dedicated to climate and clean energy investment, in a development one investor described as "shifting the world's largest economy forever towards a greener future".

Just 0.8% of the revenue of Irish asset manager KBI Global Investor's water strategy is "detrimental" to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it has said.

KBI Global Investors said a reclassification of the way it judges the positive and negative impact of its own investments has seen its overall impact score drop compared with last year - with companies involved in burning of biomass and natural gas distribution behind the rerating.

Impact investors have been encouraged to repurpose the revenues-based approach of the EU's taxonomy for sustainable activities and use it to assess a portfolio's net contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Asset owners should be investing more heavily and with more urgency in infrastructure projects that help with the provision of energy, water and food, according to KBI Global Investors (KBIGI).

KBI Global Investors (KBIGI) has estimated that more than three-quarters of the revenues from its natural resources portfolios contribute to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).