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  • UK bids to consolidate 'leadership' in green finance

    18 September 2017

    The UK government has announced a taskforce of senior financiers to help accelerate the growth of green finance – a field in which it claims the UK already enjoys global leadership.

  • BlackRock and Aviva Investors to speak at Green Equities 2017 conference

    25 August 2017

    Big hitters including Aviva Investors' Steve Waygood and John McKinley, director of the impact investing arm of the world's largest asset manager, BlackRock, have added their names to the stellar line-up of speakers at Environmental Finance's inaugural Green Equities 2017 conference.

  • ESG can't stand still in a changing world

    23 August 2017

    Technological developments, such as the rise of artificial intelligence, machine learning and the growing risk of cyber attacks, are relevant to ESG, argues Fiona Reynolds

  • Union Investment grows sustainable funds to €30bn

    26 July 2017

    German investment manager Union Investment has grown the assets in its sustainable funds to €30 billion ($34.9 billion), an increase of about €9 billion on 2016.

  • Oil & gas companies risk $2.3trn in stranded assets

    21 June 2017

    $2.3 trillion of future upstream investments by 69 oil & gas companies is at risk of becoming stranded assets, according to a new report by Carbon Tracker Initiative and the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

  • PRI partners with CFA on mapping ESG best practice

    23 May 2017

    The UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment and the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute have collaborated to produce a global study of environmental, social and governance (ESG) practice within the investment management sector.

  • Fidelity launches two sustainability funds and joins PRI

    19 May 2017

    US asset management giant Fidelity has signed up to the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and launched two environmental, social and governance (ESG) focused funds.

  • PRI launches hedge fund ESG questionnaire

    11 May 2017

    The UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) has launched a responsible investment due diligence questionnaire (RI DDQ) for the hedge fund industry, that they hope will foster better understanding of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.

  • Investors with $15trn in AUM call on global governments to implement Paris Agreement

    08 May 2017

    Investors representing more than $15 trillion in assets under management (AUM) have written to the governments of G7 and G20 countries calling on them to support and implement the commitments of the Paris Agreement, to limit global temperature increase to less than 2°C.

  • Time for a more equitable financial system

    24 April 2017

    The Principles for Responsible Investment is launching a new initiative to promote sustainability in the financial system. Nathan Fabian explains