All carbon footprint articles – Page 3
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NewsAccounting roundup: FRC targets ESG for next reporting season
PIRC suggests FRC ignored s172, IASB completes hedge accounting amendments
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: The key questions about Paris Agreement-aligned investment [updated]
The co-chairs of an IIGCC institutional investor project on aligning portfolios with the Paris Agreement set out the key questions
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NewsClimate change: PKA chief urges business backing for €1.6trn investment push
Also: Companies must improve climate change reporting, says UBS; Candriam seeks to offset carbon emissions from asset management operations
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ESG roundup: AP Pension cuts tobacco from €15bn portfolio
Plus: MSCI to buy Zurich-based environmental fintech and analytics firm Carbon Delta to boost climate risk offering for institutional investors
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Nordea Life & Pension Sweden makes €2.1bn sustainable investment shift
Swedish pension provider says move halved the portfolio’s carbon footprint
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PostNL reduces equity carbon footprint through shift to best-in-class
€8.4bn Dutch scheme for postal staff said the change lifted its equity returns by one percentage point
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Pension fund ESG integration ‘dangerous’, claims economist
Economist Henrique Schneider splits the audience at a Swiss conference by speaking out against sustainable investment as a fiduciary duty
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NewsABP ‘on track’ to meet 2020 sustainability target
Investments linked to the SDGs increased to €55.7bn – but campaign groups claim the €431bn scheme is investing more in major carbon emitters
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NewsATP future-proofs quant portfolio with environmental factor addition
Denmark’s biggest pension fund reduces carbon footprint with addition of environmental ‘signal’ to equities investments
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NewsFinancial costs of lowering carbon risk ‘statistically negligible’
Researchers argue investors can hedge against energy transition without sacrificing returns
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NewsDutch retail sector scheme divests 500 firms for ESG reasons
Detailhandel partners with FTSE Russell for new index, halving carbon footprint and fossil fuel stocks exposure
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NewsChurch investors to take hardline stance on executive pay, climate change
£21bn investor group lays out its plans to challenge companies on pay, pensions, tax, emissions, and diversity
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NewsInvestec launches environment strategy to target decarbonisation trend
Fund aims to benefit from growth of companies actively reducing their carbon output across the value chain
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Investors turn on steel industry in push to slow climate change
IIGCC leads calls for steel manufacturers to take long-term approach to reducing emissions
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AP2 curbs investment losses in 2018 with Chinese bond gains
Gothenburg-based fund is first of Sweden’s national pension funds to report on 2018 returns
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Merseyside, People’s Pension allocate to ESG smart beta funds
UK schemes backing climate change themed funds to reduce carbon output while maintaining performance
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IPE Conference: China will not exit coal any time soon
Carbon-heavy fossil fuel to remain vital for country’s energy independence
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NewsShell agrees short-term climate targets linked to exec pay
Targets to be put to shareholders after years of investor pressure to act on climate change risks
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NewsPublic pension funds push back at criticism of climate strategies
Friends of the Earth claimed some of the UK’s biggest funds were climate change ‘laggards’
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Cutting carbon emissions could cause losses of up to 25%, says consultant
Focusing just on a portfolio’s carbon footprint is not enough, argues Ridzert van der Zee
