All ESG/SRI articles – Page 89
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Climate change: asset managers join forces with the eco-warriors
The pandemic has persuaded some investors of the potential financial damage from global warming
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Sustainability-linked bonds get the green light
The European Central Bank (ECB) announced its support for sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) this week. While it is early days for the sustainable-bond market, the statement demonstrates the central bank’s commitment to tackling the climate crisis and the role it can play in helping companies to decarbonise their activities.
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Burberry case study - UK Institutional
Burberry has reaffirmed its commitment to find alternatives to incinerating surplus stock in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic and set a science-based carbon reduction target.
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The coronavirus and the race for a vaccine
Across the globe, scientists are hunting for an effective vaccine that will end Covid-19. In the sixth article in our pandemic series, Katie Frame looks at the response from the pharmaceutical sector and how we engage on this issue.
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The Crisis No One is Talking About
The migration patterns stemming from Venezuela’s economic collapse provide key ESG insights, especially for Colombia and other neighboring countries, and particularly when compared to the case of Syrian refugees in Turkey.
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Launching new carbon-disclosure standards for UK finance
The Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) launched its UK chapter this week. The coalition was initiated and chaired by the international business of Federated Hermes and aims to promote the measurement and disclosure of carbon emissions in the financial sector.
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ESG in Equities: Better Outcomes Require Better Practices
Not all approaches to ESG are created equal—why a focus on integration, forward-looking dynamics and active engagement is the key to unlocking long-term returns in equity investments.
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ESG in Equities: Not All Approaches are Created Equal
Dr. Ghadir Cooper, Global Head of Equities, shares insight into the deliberate approach that her team takes when incorporating ESG into their investment process, including how the three key principles of integration, dynamism and active engagement contribute to better outcomes.
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Sustainability – We believe in stewardship
Writing in BNP Paribas Asset Management’s latest sustainability report, Helena Viñes Fiestas, Global Head of Stewardship and Policy, showcases the firm’s recent achievements, underscoring the importance of active stewardship at BNPP AM as part of its role as a ‘Future Maker’ leading change.
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Sustainability – We are Future Makers
Our Global Sustainability Strategy, published in 2019, set out our ambitions, a three-year road map, and the five-pillar approach to define and implement sustainable investment. Now, our latest sustainability report highlights our recent achievements, underscoring the importance of putting sustainable investment at the core of BNP Paribas Asset Management’s strategy as well as the company’s role as a ‘Future Maker’ leading change.
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ESG – Remarkable Progress, Evolving Indices and Futures Growth
The unprecedented economic turmoil caused by the COVID-19 virus has led for calls to reshape the global economy to make it fairer and more environmentally sustainable. Campaigners are challenging governments to direct their record stimulus funds towards projects and investments that benefit broader society.
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Mizuho Financial Group case study
Mizuho Financial Group has faced allegations from environmental non-profit organisations on its financing of fossil fuels and agribusiness’ activities that are linked to deforestation, peatland destruction and illegal labour exploitation especially in Southeast Asia.
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A voting season like no other
Companies and investors went into the 2020 voting season reeling from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. With many companies opting for virtual shareholder meetings, how did investors ensure their concerns about climate change, diversity and human rights risks were addressed?
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The day after the crisis: implications for long-term investors
In a recent piece of paper1 long-term investors found a broad analysis of the most relevant post-crisis elements they need to consider in order to make a more informed decision about their investments: central banks support, inflation situation, deglobalisation trend, low-carbon transition and inequality assessment were the main features to consider.
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Life after Covid: the LDI view
The fast spreading of the new Coronavirus disease (Covid- 19) has become the biggest global challenge in decades, with more than 10 million (recorded) infections and a death toll exceeding 500k by mid-2020. Transmission by asymptomatic people is still debated, but may be a factor facilitating unconscious spreading, and making containment difficult.
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Looking for hidden ESG gems: a new frontier for responsible investing with “improvers”
The ongoing Covid-19 crisis and the resulting market turmoil have confirmed a pre-existing trend within equity investing: the increasing relevance of integrating ESG criteria and sustainability into the investment decision. We believe doing so will add value both in terms of being able to deliver better risk-adjusted return, but also in terms of helping to put focus on - and ultimately improve - important ESG parameters for companies and society.
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Debunking the Myths of “High-Priced” Tech Stocks
Technology stocks seem unstoppable. Giants like Apple and Microsoft, as well as technology-driven consumer firms such as Amazon and Alibaba Group, continue to do well through the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Sustainable mythbusting
Getting the facts straight on sustainable index investing investing
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Coronavirus throws down a challenge for credit analysis
The dramatic impact of COVID-19 has created a challenge for even the most experienced credit analysts. The effects have gone far beyond those seen in the technology bubble of the early 2000s, the Enron scandal a year later, the 2008/2009 financial crisis, and in what now seems like a small blip the commodity crash of 2015/2016.
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GLP Announces 56 Percent Increase in Solar Power Capacity in 2020 and Other ESG Initiatives
Opens largest solar powered logistics facility in Brazil
Increases global rooftop solar panels to 1.5 million sqm
Global sustainable building certifications rise to 203