All Alternatives articles – Page 28
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White papersBig oil faces big challenges on climate change
After surviving a steep collapse in oil prices in 2020, major oil companies are being pressed by louder calls to figure out their contributions to societal goals of net zero emissions by 2050.
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White papersSupply-chain ripples: The positive spillovers of decarbonising upstream emissions
Some of the world’s biggest companies are setting ambitious net-zero targets, with significant implications for their supply chains. How impactful could the ripple effect be in helping to meet the goals set out in the Paris Agreement?
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White papers*Paving the path to inclusive growth*
Are you looking for diversification benefits while simultaneously aligning your financial ambitions and societal values?
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White papersAmundi Pension Funds Letter n°12
The coming of summer has also seen the return of extreme heatwaves, catastrophic flooding and devastating forest fires. The arrival of the COP26 could not be more timely given the need for a universal response to the climate crisis. Pension funds as major global asset owners have a key role to play in this response.
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PodcastPodcast: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, and Digital Assets: Love ‘em, Hate ‘em, but Don’t Ignore ‘em
Why investors and asset managers shouldn’t ignore blockchain and digital assets.
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Research ReportImpact Report, Q2 2021
Any strategy looking to reduce carbon emissions needs to take sustainable energy production into account. With global demand for electricity set to double by 2050, there is an urgent need to shift from unsustainable fossil fuels to renewables like wind and solar power.
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White papersInvestors should confront the dark side of tech
Technology firms are often favoured by ESG funds because of their ostensibly clean, asset-light business models. But investors need to look deeper and challenge unethical and unsustainable practices across the industry, argue Louise Piffaut and Charles Devereux.
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White papersClimate technologies: In search of wild solutions
No single technology is enough to tackle the climate crisis, a global and systemic issue that requires joined-up thinking. We flag different pathways to address warming gases in the atmosphere – five nature-based and five technical – and ask what steps are needed next.
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White papersSupporting climate action and board diversity
As the 2021 season of annual general shareholder meetings draws to a close, we take stock of how we voted on our holdings, in particular on issues around climate change and board diversity, our focus areas.
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Asset Manager NewsThe international business of Federated Hermes joins Net Zero Asset Managers initiative
The international business of Federated Hermes is among 41 new signatories, representing $6.8tn in assets, to join the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative.
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White papersFrom farm to fork - key challenges for global food systems
In the first of a new EOS Insights series looking at the social and environmental impacts of global food systems and how companies can move to more sustainable practices, Nick Spooner sets the scene by highlighting some of the key issues and challenges.
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White papersHedge Fund Strategy Outlook Q3 2021
With society and economies in transition, investors must underwrite to a wide range of potential outcomes. Progress on vaccinations, central banks beginning a cycle of tightening policy, and earnings growth are important variables that are difficult to gauge.
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White papersHow can we tackle the effects of air pollution on human health?
The quality of the air we breathe can have a significant impact on our health. Alex Bernhardt explores the climate change-driven causes of air pollution and how to tackle the problem.
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White papersThe Great Reset: Rethinking Sustainability
In the second of our conversations about the post-pandemic landscape, we spoke with a power utility and an industrial gases company about climate-related risks and opportunities.
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White papersSustainability – Investors must be stewards
BNP Paribas Asset Management regards active stewardship as an essential part of its role as a ‘Future Maker’ and a sustainable asset manager for a changing world, engaging with companies on issues ranging from environmental degradation and social inequality to opaque governance.
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White papersPlay your part: Investing to support the climate transition
A holistic assessment of climate change risks, opportunities and solutions.
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VideoData and tools to measure biodiversity dependencies and impacts
As the sustainable investor for a changing world, BNP Paribas Asset Management believes it is essential to understand the impact of environmental change on the economy as fully as possible. Accordingly, we have been assessing our dependencies and impacts to better inform investment decisions.
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White papersALTO* Insurance: a solution designed to meet insurers challenges
As automation becomes a mainstay in asset management firms and more are turning to artificial intelligence and alternative data sources for insightful decision-making, managers are looking for additional partners to help optimise their efficiency.
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White papersManaging climate change risk as an investment risk
How do you manage the climate change risk embedded in a large institutional investment portfolio? The General Account (GA) investment committee and I have been thinking about this long before we committed, in May, to the GA becoming net zero carbon by 2050.
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White papersA burning issue – decarbonising the global steel industry
Steel is essential in today’s world, and it will be just as essential tomorrow – much of the technology to create a zero-carbon future will use steel in its construction. Yet steel production itself is a highly polluting activity.
