Archive

  • Australian, Canadian asset owners join SDG data platform

    07 July 2020

    AustralianSuper and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation have thrown their support behind a "globally consistent measurement framework" to assess their portfolio investments' contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

  • WBA publishes ranking of electric utilities

    06 July 2020

    The World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) has published a climate ranking of the 50 most influential electric utilities, finding only four have defined a clear target to provide green energy aligned to the Paris Agreement.

  • GRESB launches climate risk platform

    03 July 2020

    The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) is to launch a platform assessing real estate and infrastructure's exposure to physical climate risk.

  • ESG data market 'to more than double, to $5bn'

    26 June 2020

    The environmental, social and governance (ESG) data and services market could more than double to over $5 billion by 2025, it has been forecast, as institutional investor interest grows in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • Industry heads call for ESG data register across EU

    10 June 2020

  • Norges Bank calls for 'financially material' ESG disclosure by companies

    08 June 2020

    Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) has called for the EU's Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) to require companies to disclose environmental, social and governance (ESG) data that is 'financially material' to their operations.

  • ESG data providers taking impact data seriously - ISS ESG

    02 June 2020

    Specialist sustainability data providers including ISS ESG are aware of the "enormous demand" for products that focus on assessing positive and negative impact of investments, according to the company.

  • $500m real estate green loan agreed in Singapore

    19 May 2020

    Singaporean property manager GuocoLand has agreed a SGD730 million ($515 million) green loan for the construction of a residential and commercial development.

  • Nomura pursuing improvements in Japanese impact reporting

    18 May 2020

    Nomura is planning to engage more with Japanese listed companies to ask them to disclose sustainability information, according to the manager of its Global Sustainable Equity fund.

  • S&P Global ESG Scores launched

    18 May 2020

    S&P Global has increased its presence in the increasingly competitive ESG data market, with the launch of its proprietary 'S&P Global ESG Scores'.