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Future World Fund to start expelling poor performers by March
05 June 2017Companies that don't show positive engagement on climate-related issues will start to be expelled from Legal & General Investment Management's (LGIM) Future World Fund from March.
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UK's low-carbon economy 'could grow to 13% of GDP'
05 June 2017The low-carbon economy could grow to account for as much as 13% of the UK's gross domestic product (GDP) in the next thirty years, up from 2% today, according to a letter from Aldersgate Group, representing some of the country's business leaders.
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Asset owners and investors call for more Mexican green bonds
05 June 2017A group of 57 leading asset owners and fund managers in Mexico have called on the government to take action to develop the local green bond market.
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Time the green bond market grew up
05 June 2017The exclusion of Repsol's bond from the main green bond indexes highlights that a lack of a clear definition of what is green is hindering the market, argues Keith Mullin.
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People Moves: PGGM, SASB, Hudson, RenewableUK
02 June 2017Dutch pension fund and asset manager PGGM's CEO Else Bos has resigned and will leave the company on 1 November 2017.
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Comment: Trump and Paris - who will have the last laugh?
02 June 2017As he announced that the US was to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord, President Donald Trump claimed that the rest of the world was laughing at the US for signing the agreement, and they won't be laughing any longer.
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Trump plan to renegotiate Paris dismissed as 'smoke and mirrors'
02 June 2017President Trump's suggestion that the US wants to renegotiate the Paris Agreement, when he announced the country's withdrawal from it, has been dismissed as smoke and mirrors by one industry analyst.
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Breadth of ESG screening at Talanx touches €100bn mark
02 June 2017Talanx Group has expanded its screening of investments by non-financial criteria to cover 90% of its €110 billion ($123.4 billion) own portfolio, but requested stakeholders be patient as it implements the practice fully, which is "not a sprint".
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Green bond market growth has slowed, says underwriter
02 June 2017Green bond market growth has slowed, says underwriter.
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With the US out of Paris, will environmental investments increasingly shift to China?
02 June 2017Abandoning the Paris Climate Accord will come back to haunt the US, and China will benefit, argues Karine Hirn