All Water/Waste articles
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White papersTurning waste into wealth: The strategic role of biomethane in a net-zero future
Biomethane is rapidly emerging as a cornerstone of Europe’s energy transition—offering a rare convergence of climate alignment, energy sovereignty, waste management, and economic resilience. In a geopolitical context shaped by the Russia–Ukraine war, volatile fossil gas markets, and the European Union’s 2040 climate targets, biomethane presents a unique infrastructure-ready solution. Produced from organic waste streams such as agricultural residues and animal effluents, it is chemically identical to fossil gas and compatible with existing infrastructure—making it deployable at scale without costly retrofits.
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White papersWater Risks: An Investor’s Guide to Navigating Sustainable Water Management
Water security represents a critical challenge for the world: how to address too much, too little and too-polluted water. In this paper, we advocate a new approach to managing water risks, aimed at securing better outcomes for communities, companies and investors.
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PodcastTalking Heads – A new focus on investing in water
Several factors are reinforcing the investment case for water utilities and other water infrastructure and treatment companies. They include a recent shift in policymaker thinking to end years of underinvestment and reprioritise spending on infrastructure.
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White papersAddressing water scarcity – Water is not optional
In recent weeks, several global agencies have sounded the alarm on water scarcity, highlighting the negative implications of rising economic activity and climate change on supplies. The message has been consistent: water is not optional. In this article, Impax Asset Management notes urgent action, along with significant investment, is required to address water infrastructure needs.
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White papersWater in crisis – searching for solutions
The world is facing a water crisis. Around the globe we either have too little (drought), too much (flooding) or too toxic water.
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White papersNature and biodiversity: Water and sanitation
Over the last several hundred years, exponential population growth has increased demand for essential resources including food, energy and infrastructure. Sustaining our population and consumption patterns is contingent on water availability, and quality. In part two of this series, Adam Pinfold, Michael Rae and Ben Constable-Maxwell consider the risks of our current unsustainable water use, alongside some of the potential solutions.
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White papersQuenching the semiconductor industry’s thirst
Innovative technologies are reducing the environmental impact of a water-intensive industry critical to the modern economy, writes Justin Winter, Senior Portfolio Manager at Impax Asset Management.
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White papersWaste to wealth: A circular economy approach to e-waste
From mobile phones to medical equipment, electronic products in their millions are being produced and discarded in excess each year. The growing e-waste problem is driving unparalleled levels of resource depletion and pollution, presenting a clear social and environmental risk. As a result, countries are increasingly looking to establish more sustainable consumption and production patterns through a circular economy approach.
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White papersInvesting in a critical global resource: water
In this paper, Impax Asset Management, a delegated manager of BNP Paribas Asset Management, discusses the fundamental drivers of the global water industry’s growth and regulation. Both are shaping priorities in the sector. What does this mean for the opportunity set for investors? What are some of the evolving technologies and solutions that could shape the market? Here is a shortened version of the paper presenting the main points.
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White papersHow tackling food waste contributes to climate change mitigation
Discussions about food and its impact on climate change often concern the value chain from fork to plate – and even more often focus on the production side – but eliminating food loss and waste can make an equally notable contribution. Addressing this major issue requires solutions that range from basic common sense to innovative packaging, transport and storage.
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White papersWater Scarcity: Sustainable Investors Address a Growing Scourge
Water scarcity is no longer just a problem for developing countries in desert climes. As demand for water solutions grows, equity investors will find opportunities in companies that help quench the thirst of parched communities around the world with innovative solutions.
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White papersUniversal access to clean water and sanitation has wide-ranging benefits
As a resource that is critical to life on Earth, it behoves us as stewards of the planet to look after water. Beyond answers to droughts and floods, and the damage they do to the economy, other areas such as providing clean water and sanitation can have considerable benefits for society at large that extend from reduced healthcare costs to improved productivity.
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White papersInvesting in water - A raft of solutions
The opportunities are not only a consequence of climate change effects – severe flooding or drought – but also of decades of under-investment in clean and wastewater infrastructure. Water is pervasive: every economic activity consumes water, and we believe nearly every company needs to improve how it manages that consumption.
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White papersOpening the Tap: Opportunities in Regulated Water Utilities
The need to bring capital to the nation’s water utility systems is clear: Deteriorated water infrastructure affects both the population and the environment.
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White papersSuzano: 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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White papers* Our roadmap to addressing biodiversity loss *
Biodiversity loss entails physical, transition and systemic risks for investors. That is why BNP Paribas Asset Management believes it is essential to integrate biodiversity into its approach to sustainable investing including reporting on its water and forest footprints and developing common biodiversity metrics.
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White papersGreen News & Views: REPM Multi-Manager Infrastructure’s 5 pillars for responsible investing
Infrastructure and ESG: two sides of the same coin
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White papersInvest in the world you want to live in
Climate change investing is about identifying companies that improve our lives, minimise our footprint, and perform well financially.
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White papersCan the UK Infrastructure Bank unleash the power of private capital?
Now that the details have emerged on the remit and tools available to the UK Infrastructure Bank, meaningful engagement with industry should be the priority, argues Darryl Murphy.
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White papersThe latest on the carbon trading market and a keen appetite for offshore wind assets
Carbon pricing in the EU Emissions Trading System, or ETS market, is entering a new phase, signalling that decarbonisation is well under way in the energy sector and that reducing industrial CO2 emissions will be next, as the EU moves towards its net zero emissions target for 2050.
