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  • US consumer goods sector must up its low-carbon game, CDP says

    25 February 2019

    Major US companies in the fast-moving consumer goods sector, including Kraft Heinz, Estée Lauder and P&G, must up their game or risk falling foul of changing consumer demands and increased environmental regulation.

  • CDP unveils Johnson & Johnson, Gap and Kao in green leaders list

    22 January 2019

    Johnson & Johnson, Gap and KAO have reached the top 2% of firms covered by CDP's annual environmental ranking.

  • ERM snaps up SustainAbility as industry consolidation continues

    14 January 2019

    Environmental Resources Management (ERM), a specialist consultancy with 160 offices worldwide, has acquired SustainAbility, the pioneering think tank and advisory firm set up by John Elkington and Julia Hailes in 1987.

  • Large food brands’ reporting failure raises their climate risk, says Ceres

    28 November 2018

    The majority of the largest food and drinks brands in the US and Canada currently fail to report on emissions from their supply chain, raising their exposure to climate-related risk, Ceres has said.

  • Terry Smith bullish on anniversary of sustainable equities fund

    23 November 2018

    Fundsmith's foray into sustainable investing has yielded early success and is poised for further growth, founder Terry Smith tells Graham Cooper

  • Investors and corporates join forces in new plastics initiative

    31 October 2018

    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".

  • BMO starts examining companies' 'plastic footprints'

    28 September 2018

    BMO Global Asset Management is working to introduce the concept of 'plastic footprints', similar to carbon footprints, to encourage companies to measure and disclose their plastic usage to investors.

  • LGIM announces exclusions from its £5bn Future World Funds

    11 June 2018

    Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has named the companies it regards as leaders and laggards on climate change issues, as part of its attempt to remove climate-related risk from its £5 billion ($6.7 billion) Future World funds.

  • Investors urged to engage with companies on physical climate risks

    07 June 2018

    Investors are being encouraged to engage with companies on physical climate risks, both reactively and proactively, by identifying those with the biggest exposure to extreme weather events.

  • Food firms need to improve response to climate change, says Ceres

    12 September 2017

    Many food companies are poorly prepared to deal with the likely impacts of climate change, according to Ceres, a US-based industry and investor network.