All ESG/SRI articles – Page 9
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Asset Manager NewsDeka Immobilien makes its first investment in Seattle
Deka Immobilien started the New Year by making its largest single acquisition, outside of Germany to date, in the US. The company acquired the Google campus “Lakefront Blocks 25 & 31” in the South Lake Union neighbourhood of Seattle for USD 802 Mio.
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UN Sustainable Development Goals – Aligning or Progressing?
We evaluate the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, which whilst widely supported, will not be without challenge.
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Tackling climate change through outcomes-focused stewardship
With the publication by EOS at Federated Hermes of the 2021 Annual Review of engagement and voting highlights, Dr Hans-Christoph Hirt, head of EOS, reflects on the climate crisis and the challenges it will pose for investors in 2022 and beyond.
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Video
Machine Learning: The evolution of governance through AI
In the latest segment of the series FTSE Russell Convenes, we talk to Professor Isil Erel, the David A. Rismiller Chair in Finance at the Fisher College of Business of the Ohio State University about corporate governance and how AI can help augment human judgement to identify diverse boards and management by avoiding biases.
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DBS case study
EOS communicated to DBS investor concerns about sustainable palm oil production and pressed for an improved palm oil financing policy for existing borrowers. We were pleased to see DBS improved its palm oil financing policy for all customers, requiring a “No Deforestation, no Peat, no Exploitation” commitment, or principles and criteria of the RSPO for all its existing and new borrowers.
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Asset Manager News
KGAL more than doubles new business to 3.4 billion euros in 2021
Grünwald, 22.02.2022 – In the challenging market environment of 2021, KGAL Group succeeded in setting a record with its transactions across its asset classes Real Estate, Sustainable Infrastructure and Aviation.
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Climate Metrics – A Primer for Investors
With the rise of climate investing, the increasing recognition of environmental risks and investors across the world beginning their journey to Net Zero, climate metrics are becoming a vital component of successful investment decisions.
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EOS 2021 Annual Review
Although the Covid-19 pandemic continued to exact a heavy toll in 2021, the climate crisis returned to the fore with extreme weather events around the globe, and the starkest warning yet from scientists in the run up to the UN’s COP26 climate summit.
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Asset Manager News
Deka Immobilien acquires starter properties for new special fund Domus Megatrends Europa
With the purchase of two high-end office buildings in Dublin and Madrid for a total of more than EUR 100 million, Deka Immobilien has made its first investments on behalf of its new special fund Domus Megatrends Europa.
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Oil, Gas, and ESG: S&P Europe 350 ESG Index Increased Sensitivity (or Lack Thereof)
Commodities crushed it in 2021, with stretched supply chains a driving factor. The strong performance didn’t stop as we entered 2022. In this blog, we specifically look at crude oil and natural gas, which have outperformed the European equity market by some distance since the start of 2021 (see Exhibit 1), and what this can mean for European ESG strategies.
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BAE Systems case study
BAE Systems has accelerated its societal and environmental ambitions with key commitments regarding its workforce and climate.
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Energy Transition: Matching Liabilities and Capturing the Equity Premium
Energy transition infrastructure can match long-term liabilities, generate high yields and lift pension schemes’ sustainability profiles.
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Getting along – Can investors influence geopolitics to improve climate action?
The outcome of the 2021 COP26 climate conference showed that, despite nations planning their own environmental efforts, collective climate action is difficult to foster. What does this mean for investors? Is there any way governments can be swayed into working together more effectively?
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Paris-Aligned Indexes to Manage the Future
With the surge in commitments from governments and businesses around the world to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, climate change has become the leading ESG issue among money managers in asset-weighted terms. As a result, institutional investors are increasingly looking for tools to implement net-zero strategies in their portfolios.
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Asset Manager News
Mirova and Other Investors Join Forces to Make Record €200 Million Investment in Green Hydrogen Pioneer Hy2gen AG
Hy2gen AG, the green hydrogen investment platform, announces the successful completion of a €200 million, investment round.
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IPUT Real Estate and A&L Goodbody announce plan to create Ireland’s most sustainable building at North Wall Quay
North Wall Quay is being designed to be Ireland’s lowest carbon office development, achieving a 60% reduction in embodied carbon compared to a new construction project Re-generation of North Wall Quay to provide A&L Goodbody with the most sustainable headquarters in Dublin IPUT to accommodate A&L Goodbody within its ...
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Podcast
Biodiversity: Episode 4
There are a growing number of challenges that agriculture is facing, in part due to the increased demand for food as a result of a growing population and changing diets.
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Podcast
Investment Symposium Series – “Health for people equals health for the planet”
A more planet-friendly diet can help both address biodiversity loss and improve people’s health, highlighting the harmful impact of food production, consumption and waste on our ecosystem. To help contain the rise in global temperatures, and preserve human wellbeing, enhance food security and wider stability, an agricultural revolution is needed.
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Podcast
All The Credit, Episode 24
Securitized products, sometimes referred to as structured products or, more generically, asset-backed securities, has—more recently—experienced dramatic growth in market size. And while the sector is approaching nearly $4 trillion, the securitized assets market and investor appetite continues to expand.
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Blog | Net Zero transition and hydrogen: believe the Hype?
Since 2015, a growing fleet of hydrogen taxis has clocked up more than 6 million km in the Paris area, transporting over 800,000 passengers. The electric vehicles’ livery is unmistakable, with a clouds-on-blue-sky design catching the eye.
