All ESG/SRI articles – Page 70
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White papers
It’s not easy being green: analysing corporate treatment of carbon-intensive activities
In response to the climate crisis the economy shows clear signs of shifting from “brown” to “green”. Driving this secular change, companies lower their carbon footprint by winding down or divesting carbon-intensive activities.
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Research Report
IPUT launches Responsibility Report “Greening our Portfolio”
IPUT Real Estate, today issues its 2020 Responsibility Report, titled “Greening our Portfolio”.
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Research Report
BNP Paribas REIM unveils its ESG roadmap to 2025
While the environmental and social governance landscape for many companies changed dramatically in 2020, BNP Paribas REIM, the investment management business line of BNP Paribas Real Estate, unveils its annual ESG report for the 9th consecutive year.
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Research Report
Climate Action Report
Here, we summarise the innovations and commitments that lie at the heart of our climate strategy.
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White papers
Biden agenda: tackling income inequality and its potential inflation impact
The election of President Joe Biden has led to a turn in US government policy. This paper explores income and wealth inequality in the United States and President Biden’s policies aimed at addressing this issue, including his proposal of a corporate tax hike.
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Suzano: engaging on ESG issues
Sao Paolo-based pulp and paper producer Suzano is a holding in the Federated Hermes Unconstrained Credit Fund.
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Big Tech Stocks: How to gauge regulatory risk
When it comes to America’s biggest technology companies, it seems like regulatory risk has never been higher. Most large technology platforms are facing pressure from US and European authorities, while lawmakers on Capitol Hill seem more inclined to doing something — rather than nothing.
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Stop-and-Go Economy Refuses to be Stopped
If last year’s life-under-a-pandemic experience was unusual for every human on the planet, this year’s recovery stands apart in the history of recoveries.
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Shifts & Narratives #7 - Opening the Pandora’s box of social risks: Consequences for investors
The Covid-19 crisis can be considered a turning point for social issues: it has put global socio-economic inequalities in the spotlight and made them more concrete than ever before. It has also clearly shown the tragic effects, from an economic and societal perspective, that systemic shocks can have on unequal, non-resilient societies.
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Podcast
EM Debt: How ESG & Economics Are Shaping the Outlook
Ricardo Adrogue and Kawtar Ed-Dahmani see room for positive economic surprises in emerging markets despite concerns from COVID to higher interest rates to inflation.
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Key issues for Japan’s 2021 voting season
As we enter peak voting season for Japanese companies, engager Sachi Suzuki explores two key issues where Japan has been a notable laggard – gender diversity and climate change.
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A Show of Strength by Shareholders
As the 2021 proxy voting season winds to a close across the world, it looks set to mark a watershed moment for shareholder engagement.
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Asset Manager News
Asian respondents are committed to increasing ESG engagement and indicate an increasing shift towards alternative investing
According to Nuveen’s inaugural global institutional investor survey, the ongoing global pandemic, the shift to investing in alternatives and ESG integration are the most powerful themes shaping investment decisions in the Asia Pacific region in 2021.
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Congratulations, Graduates! Wall Street Needs You!
And yes, you can build a purposeful life around a career in financial services, especially now that revolution is at hand.
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What is the future for climate disclosure?
It’s only a matter of time before companies will have to report on their climate-related risks. They should get ahead by putting the processes in place to do so now, says Thibaud Clisson.
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Stakeholders in the Just Transition - N°2 Consumers
The objective of a “just transition” was included in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. It aims to make the transition to low-carbon economies fair to all stakeholders: workers, consumers, local communities, and society at large.
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Shifts & Narratives #5 - A unique crisis that opens the way to multiple regime shifts
The Covid-19 crisis is exceptional in many ways. It is the most serious health crisis since the Spanish flu a century ago. This crisis resulted in an unprecedented contraction of activity in 2020 and in the deepest global recession since World War II.
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Asset Manager News
Nuveen launches Global Core Impact Bond strategy
Nuveen, the global investment manager with over $1.2 trillion in assets under management, announces the launch of a Global Core Impact Bond strategy.
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White papers
Stewardship in Asia, a source and a victim of climate change
Asia is a major contributor to climate change and at the same time quite exposed to its phenomena such as droughts and floods.
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Video
* Ecosystem restoration – Now is the time *
Biodiversity and economic activity are closely linked, so biodiversity loss endangers the economy, us and our prosperity.