All ESG/SRI articles – Page 14
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Locating the sweet spot in direct lending
On top of a compelling return, the northern European lower mid-market senior secured segment offers less downside risk and one of the best legal environments to negotiate any restructurings.
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Impact Opportunities Equity Q2 2023
Like any new technology, AI will be a disruptor in the truest sense, bringing both positive and negative impacts for society and the global economy. In this report, the Impact Opportunities team explain why they believe healthcare is one area where AI will overwhelmingly be a force for good.
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SDG Engagement Equity Q2 2023 case study: Aalberts
In 2021, Dutch engineering group Aalberts set out a target that more than 70% of its revenue would be aligned with the SDGs by 2026. By end 2022 it had already hit 68%.
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Wait and see (redux)
Recent inflation and GDP data complicate the course of central bank policy.
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ESG Materiality H1 2023: Spotlight on India
In the latest issue we reflect on the 2023 corporate governance trends across emerging markets and put the spotlight on India, examining key ESG risks and opportunities in one of the world’s most exciting markets.
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Climate change and cities: Adapting real estate investment decisions
Some of the predicted impacts of climate change are now inevitable. 2020 was the hottest year globally, and the number and severity of extreme events has quadrupled since the 1980s.
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Hydrogen hype – which ambitions are realistic, and which are less so?
We believe hydrogen will play a vital role in some places, but that it may be overhyped in others.
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Financing the energy transition - Thought Leadership
Energy security and climate change are driving an unparalleled economic shift in the energy sector worldwide, and reshaping the investment landscape for green energy credit.
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Real assets, real impact
For investors to have a real impact on climate change requires tangible, achievable paths to net zero carbon emissions. Igneo Infrastructure Partners’ Sophie Durham explains how this can be achieved through engagement and collaboration with portfolio companies.
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Tackling short-term challenges and the long-term goals of sustainable investing
Climate, geopolitics and macroeconomic factors combine to make instability a constant rather than a break from the norm – at least for a while. We believe sustainability remains the best long-term prism to understand crisis factors and anticipate a low-carbon, environmentally sustainable and inclusive economy. Challenges may be interconnected, but so are the solutions.
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From Climate Stress Testing to Climate Value-at-Risk: A Stochastic Approach
This paper proposes a comprehensive climate stress testing approach to measure the impact of transition risk on investment portfolios. Unlike most climate stress testing models, which are designed for the banking industry and follow a top-down approach, our framework considers a bottom-up approach and is mainly relevant for the asset management industry.
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Keynote Interview: Infrastructure Reaps Rewards Of Inclusion
Keynote Interview with Infrastructure Investor
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How listed infrastructure is contributing to the decarbonisation of air travel
The air travel industry is under increasing scrutiny for its environmental impact, but with the majority of emissions associated with the flight itself, the role of aviation infrastructure in catalysing change is often overlooked. As active investors in listed infrastructure companies, our sector focus and commitment to sustainable investing takes us under the hood of airports and air navigation service providers, where we uncover their often underappreciated and differentiated contributions to sustainability outcomes.
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Investing for a positive retirement with private assets
With regulators raising the bar for pension funds on sustainability and ESG, we explore how to make a positive real-world impact while helping investors to make the right decisions for a comfortable retirement.
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Podcast
Commodities and Their Place in the Transition Pathway
With the broad awareness of the energy transition across the globe, investors are looking for ways to position their portfolios to capture the transition. However, some question whether portfolios exposed to the business of extracting more raw materials from the earth can meet the objectives of all investors.
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Navigating the Evolving ESG Landscape
Expanding interest in ESG suggests that issuers are likely to be called upon for more disclosure, communication and progress in the coming years, making it crucial to effectively navigate these areas.
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Sustainability watch: coastal resilience, nuclear fusion, and lithium mines
Our selection of sustainability news from June covers new research that suggests humanity has breached seven out of eight planetary boundaries, Singapore’s new carbon exchange, and an update on the first global treaty to curb plastic pollution.
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The CRE Industry’s Race to Net Zero: Implications of the Inflation Reduction Act Incentives
Sustainable development goals have become a greater priority for the commercial real estate (CRE) industry since the 2015 United Nations (U.N.) Paris Agreement established a global net zero goal (NZG) by 2050.
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Webinar
Net Zero on 11 July
In 2015, under the Paris Agreement, commitments were made to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, bringing them “close to zero” by 2050 (“Net Zero” or “NZ”). Asset Owners, like Asset Managers, have an important part to play in contributing to this global transformation effort.
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As carbon-intensive sectors retreat, what equity opportunities lie ahead?
With the energy shock subsiding and the climate transition back in focus, what potential equity upside might companies aligning to net zero offer investors? Forecasting how a carbon-constrained economy would impact businesses’ growth, earnings and valuations, we gain insights into how firms that are genuinely decarbonising could benefit performance.