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  • Investors urge Asian governments to develop policies for coal phaseout

    01 March 2024
  • Cambodian telecoms firm raises $20m from ground-breaking sustainability bond

    27 November 2023
  • Natural Capital Investment Americas 2023: Investor hopes the SBTi will 'endorse' carbon credits

    02 October 2023

    An Environmental Finance conference has heard hopes from market participants that the Science-based Targets Initiative (SBTi) will "endorse" the use of carbon credits as part of net zero targets.

  • Voluntary carbon market craving for clarity, Manulife IM says

    25 September 2023

    Investors are increasingly looking "under the hood" of voluntary carbon market (VCM) investment opportunities to understand the underlying projects they are investing, according to Eric Cooperström, managing director for impact investing and natural climate solutions at Manulife Investment Management.

  • Manulife: Green bonds 'imperilled' by net zero target setting

    07 July 2023

    Canadian insurer and asset manager Manulife is concerned that the "blunt tool" of assessing alignment with net-zero targets for investment portfolio construction could "imperil" the future success of the green bond market.

  • Manulife pilots natural capital accounting framework

    29 June 2023

    Manulife Investment Management is piloting a method of measuring the value of nature for its timber and agriculture assets, in preparation for applying it to "the entire portfolio", an executive has said.

  • Market-wide stewardship driving sustainable outcomes

    03 May 2023

    Manulife Investment Management's Peter Mennie and Brian Kernohan have identified five ways in which the asset manager can exert its investment stewardship to help address systematic issues

  • Manulife: Biodiversity is biggest opportunity for private markets

    16 February 2023

    Biodiversity is "arguably the biggest opportunity for private markets", and will expand beyond timberland to other types of investments including in the technology sector, an executive at Manulife has said.

  • COP15: Manulife commits $100m to nature-based solutions

    19 December 2022

    Manulife has pledged $100 million towards nature-based solutions with a focus on producing forestry carbon offsets.

  • COP15: $24trn investor group calls for agreement on Global Biodiversity Framework

    13 December 2022

    150 financial institutions representing over $24 trillion in assets under management have called on countries to adopt a post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15).