People moves 28 January: ISSB, J.P. Morgan, DBS, KPMG, and more...

People

News Round Up: Refinitiv, Entelligent, JSS, Northern Trust, and more

News Round Up: ACCA, Ban Ki-moon, SEB, and more

News Round Up: Bezos Earth Fund, MSCI, GRESB, ETFs, and more

GRESB launches climate risk platform

The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) is to launch a platform assessing real estate…

ESG Data

ESG Data Files, part eight: Infrastructure, continued

As well as considering the ESG credentials of an infrastructure project, investors should also consider resilience. Christopher Marchant reports

ESG,ESG Data

ESG Data Files, part eight: Infrastructure

With its broad scope from airports to hospitals, wind farms to oil pipelines, assessing ESG data in the infrastructure sphere comes with a wide array of challenges. Christopher Marchant spoke to experts in the sector about the ongoing push for in standardisation and disclosure.

ESG,ESG Data

People Moves, 6 January: Posaidon, Cerema, Rest

People

The ESG data files, part seven, continued: Real estate - Social and governance data

The market for data on the social impacts of investments in real estate is growing rapidly, writes Christopher Marchant

ESG,ESG Data

ESG data files - part seven, continued: Real estate and resilience

Investors are striving to get a handle on physical climate risks, but the data is still under construction, writes Christopher Marchant

ESG,ESG Data

ESG Data Files, part seven: Building data for real estate

A raft of standards and certification schemes can help real estate investors understand transition risks in their portfolio, writes Christopher Marchant

ESG,ESG Data,Stranded Assets

GRESB and Verisk Maplecroft launch climate risk scorecard

Real estate sustainability assessor GRESB and risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft have collaborated to…

ESG

CDSB and SASB team up to deliver TCFD 'how-to' guide

The Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB)…

ESG,Investment

Sustainable cities are APG's biggest responsible investment theme

Dutch asset manager APG allocated €24.5 billion ($28.5 million) in 2017 in investments that it considers…

ESG,Green Bonds

GRESB shakes up its debt assessments

GRESB has added new indicators to its debt assessments as it looks to place additional focus on the monitoring…

Policy

Investors 'are increasingly demanding that real estate obtains green certification'

Investors are beginning to view real estate developments that lack a sustainability certification as…

Investment

NN IP mulls ESG scoring for infrastructure investments

NN Investment Partners (IP) is considering scoring its infrastructure investments on their environmental,…

Debt,ESG,Insurance

Infrastructure investors 'still not reporting environmental metrics'

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are being increasingly incorporated into infrastructure…

ESG,Renewables

GRESB expands its reach into 'real assets'

Standards body GRESB has launched a service assessing the environmental, social and governance (ESG)…

Corporate,Debt,Equity,Investment

Investors worth $1.5trn launch infrastructure sustainability benchmark

Investors representing $1.5 trillion of assets have teamed up with the Global Real Estate Sustainability…

Debt,Equity,Investment