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Willis Towers Watson pension scheme to shift equities investments to ESG
31 October 2018Willis Towers Watson is to shift £740 million ($944 million) – half of the equities investments in its default master trust scheme – into environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment strategies.
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Boston Common backs ‘blue economy’ finance principles
30 October 2018Boston Common Asset Management has added its name to the growing number of financial institutions that have endorsed a set of principles for investing to support the world’s oceans.
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Pension funds grill major companies on climate lobbying
29 October 2018A group of more than 50 major companies have been challenged on their approach to climate lobbying by investors with assets of about $2 trillion.
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Asian asset owners and managers flagged for poor TCFD reporting
26 October 2018Asset owners and asset managers in Asia are lagging far behind their regional peers in disclosure, a report examining the adoption of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) has found.
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Green bonds round-up - 24 Oct - 17 new deals
24 October 2018Royal Schiphol Group, the owner of Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, has priced a green bond worth €500 million ($576 million), making it the first European airport to issue green-labelled notes.
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Ceres preparing water stress test working group
24 October 2018A working group to develop guidance on conducting stress testing and scenario analysis of water risk in investment portfolios is to be established by US non-profit Ceres.
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Investors turning attention to deforestation risks, says Ceres
23 October 2018Investors are increasingly engaging companies to better manage deforestation risks in their supply chains – an issue that has traditionally been overlooked, according to US-based non-profit Ceres.
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Green Climate Fund commits $1bn to new projects
22 October 2018Funding awards for a ‘world first’ developing market green bank and a controversial water project in oil-rich Bahrain have been revealed as part of the latest in the embattled Green Climate Fund (GCF)’s disbursals.
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Paris rail project plans €31.5bn green bond programme
22 October 2018The French state-owned company developing a rail project in Paris has laid out plans for a mammoth green bond issuance programme worth as much as €31.5 billion ($36 billion).
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Investors pressure oil and gas companies to improve methane disclosures
22 October 2018Investor heavyweights Robeco and California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) have thrown their weight behind an initiative urging oil and gas companies to improve their disclosure of methane emissions.