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Storebrand AM: CA100+ has achieved 'too little'

Storebrand makes first exclusion based solely on gender

Storebrand Asset Management has divested from Activision Blizzard because of gender discrimination issues at the US game giant.

Comment: The double materiality of gender diversity

The same way climate change won't be curbed with recycling and paper cups in offices, gender equality won't be achieved just through insurers' HR policies, insurers need to use their investments to have impact. Abbie Wood writes

News Round Up: PGE, Access To Medicine, S&P Global Platts, and more

Investors issue call for "fair and equitable" global response to Covid-19

News round-up: US sustainable investment boom, human rights disclosure fail, CIP, and more...

News round-up: Nordic investors set up energy transition fund, WTW buys Acclimatise ... and more

$5trn of investors set 'unprecedented' 1.5°C emissions target

Some of the world's largest investors, with a combined $5 trillion in assets, have pledged to implement deep greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions in their portfolios over the next five years, putting them on course to help limit global warming to 1.5°C.

Storebrand excludes 27 firms as it tightens climate policy

Norwegian asset manager Storebrand has tightened its climate policy significantly, which will see it exclude 27 firms including oil majors Chevron and ExxonMobil, miner Rio Tinto and chemicals giant BASF.

Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures working group announced

Ten financial firms have joined a working group to develop a reporting framework for the impact of the financial sector on biodiversity and ecosystems to complement the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).