All ESG/SRI articles – Page 2
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White papersEmerging Market Sustainable Bonds - Report 2025
Clean-energy investment continues to expand - Global clean-energy capital expenditure reached a record $2.2 trillion in 2025, 10 percent higher than a year earlier and equivalent to 65 percent of total energy capex.
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Asset Manager NewsSolid progress on Edmond de Rothschild REIM’s 2025 sustainability program
In 2025, Edmond de Rothschild’s Real Estate Investment Management (REIM) business achieved solid progress in implementing its sustainability strategy.
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White papersClean energy investment: Balancing energy security with net zero
In the face of escalating geopolitical tensions, technological innovation, and the urgent need to transition to a low carbon economy, the global energy landscape is fundamentally shifting.
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White papersMeeting climate targets: A more complex journey
As climate transition pathways become more fragmented, institutional investors are shifting from broad ambition to practical implementation. With 2030 targets drawing closer, investors need more flexible frameworks, broader portfolio tools and stronger governance to balance climate objectives with return, liquidity and real world constraints to navigate a more complex environment.
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White papersESG Thema #24 - Assessing physical climate risks for sovereigns - Focus on Asia
Physical risk refers to the potential damage caused by climate-related hazards. Physical risk can be acute, if derived from extreme weather events and hazards: floods, landslides, extreme temperatures, storms and hurricanes, droughts, wildfires; or chronic, if related to the more gradual effect of global warming: gradual increase of sea level, reduced crops harvesting, lower labor productivity due to higher temperatures, for instance.
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PodcastESG Thema #23 - Digital Transition Series - The Social Dimensions of Responsible AI Deployment
AI has become a material source of economic opportunity and innovation. OECD economists argue that it can raise productivity by improving business processes, output quality, innovation and the efficiency with which firms use labour and capital, under the right organisational and policy conditions. However, AI diffusion also introduces risks that can undermine its potential for positive economic and wider societal impact if not managed through an ethical approach to development and deployment.
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White papersAI: A sustainability risk and opportunity for long-term investors
Investors can help determine whether artificial intelligence becomes a net positive for societies and the environment. How they allocate capital and engage with companies and policymakers can play a vital role in the eventual impact of AI.
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White papersA renewed imperative for green transition
“The crisis is a stark reminder that security extends beyond defence. It depends, among other things, on secure energy and resilient supply chains. Transitioning to clean energy is therefore both an environmental priority and a strategic imperative for geopolitical strength and economic resilience.”
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White papersEfficiency at altitude
Relying solely on sustainable aviation fuel won’t deliver the airline sector’s climate goals. Hannah Heuser and Kenny Tsang outline other practical steps that airlines can take to reduce emissions and improve profitability.
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VideoSustainable Global Equity: Where does a longer-term strategy see opportunity?
With markets pulled in multiple directions in 2026, looking beyond near-term noise is uncovering compelling opportunities in emerging markets, capital-intensive firms and commodity exposed names, says our Sustainable Global Equity team in a new video.
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White papersInvesting in Circular Agriculture
Agriculture sits at the heart of today’s biggest challenges and greatest opportunities. It contributes to climate change and biodiversity loss, while also being highly vulnerable to their effects.
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BlogIt’s time to include listed companies in your impact strategy
Our investment landscapes are changing. New risks like social unrest, extreme weather events, and geoeconomic stress have officially moved into the mainstream. One in two experts polled by the World Economic Forum expects risk levels to increase sharply this year and to continue climbing. The top five risks identified are geoeconomic confrontation (18% of votes), state-based armed conflict (14%), extreme weather events (8%), social polarisation (7%) as well as misinformation and disinformation (7%). These trends reflect a world where ethical foundations are eroding, amplifying instability and risk.
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White papersManaging and executing innovation in asset management
A Q&A with Mark Versey, CEO of Aviva Investors, and Alastair Sewell, Senior Investment Director
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White papersFrom pledges to portfolio insight: why climate ambition alone is no longer enough
Net-zero commitments have become a familiar feature of corporate climate disclosures. Across markets and sectors, companies increasingly articulate long-term decarbonization goals, often framed around 2050 targets and interim milestones.
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White papersFive questions investors ask before allocating to natural capital
Natural capital rarely enters portfolios in a single step. Interest builds, questions accumulate, and progress often slows because a small number of practical issues are not addressed early on.
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White papersClimate Action – two years on
Two years ago, L&G and AP7 partnered to invest in high emissions* companies and engaged with them to drive their emissions down over time, in an effort to combine climate impact with shareholder value creation. In this article, we reflect on successes and challenges over two years of engagement by the L&G team.
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White papersSDG Farmland Fund expands Portuguese olive oil platform
Van Lanschot Kempen’s SDG Farmland Fund has acquired Panasqueira, an irrigated olive orchard of approximately 400 hectares in Faro do Alentejo, Portugal, further strengthening its permanent crops platform in the Iberian Peninsula.
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Asset Manager NewsRedevco publishes its 18th Responsible Investment Report
Redevco has published its 2025 Responsible Investment Report, the 18th edition of its annual sustainability reporting. Titled Building on our Foundations, the report reflects Redevco’s ongoing efforts to further embed sustainability into its systems, processes and organisational culture.
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White papersGreen is not enough: The need to scale up transition finance
Sustainability-related investments have grown rapidly over the past decade. Initially anchored in global climate commitments such as the 2015 Paris Agreement and net-zero targets, investors mainly focused on directing capital toward explicitly ‘green’ investments that have a limited negative impact on the environment, such as those providing products and services needed to mitigate climate change.
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White papersA new era of energy risk is reshaping the global economy – and driving the energy transition
Energy security fears used to be concentrated in heavy industry, manufacturing and transport. Today, energy risk is becoming embedded in the broader economy – and this is a structural tailwind for energy transition infrastructure.
