Sophie Robinson-Tillett
Sophie is IPE's ESG contributing editor.
She is the founder of Real Economy Progress and a senior associate at the University of Oxford.
Sophie's journalistic experience includes being editor of Responsible Investor and Environmental Finance.
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NewsMost asset managers have withheld or ditched investments as part of ESG engagement, says study
ShareAction urged assets managers to develop and publish their escalation strategies for dealing with uncooperative companies
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Spanish insurer MAPFRE adds SRI approach to all asset managers’ strategies
“The idea is to grow distribution capacity in France and to increase our SRI capabilities,” says MAPFRE’s chief economist for investments
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ISO launches sustainable finance standard
The British Standards Institute (BSI) – developing the new guidance – has committed to embed climate science into every new or revised standard it creates
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EU rule makers settle on 85% taxonomy alignment for green bond label
The agreement states that all proceeds from an EU-labelled green bond must either be taxonomy aligned or be allocated to credible projects and activities not yet covered by the taxonomy
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UK competition authority says fossil boycotts don’t contravene rules
The guidance outlines the kind of green agreements that are acceptable under current competition law
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What the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance actually said about carbon offsets
‘This is a really important decade for dealing with climate change, so asset owners have to decarbonise the real economy,’ says NZAOA’s investment lead
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How to define natural capital and greenwashing
Last month, I wrote about recent challenges that have arisen from the terminology of sustainable finance – the legal and political consequences of the sometimes careless ways that terms like ESG, ethics, risks and impact have been interchanged depending on audience and public mood.
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Natural capital: Industry turns its gaze on biodiversity
Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures sets out to create a framework to help financial institutions and companies report their dependencies and impacts on nature
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Natural capital: Asset owners start to engage
Two new global initiatives are under way to help investors focus on issues such as deforestation, while some managers have been on track for a while
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Natural capital: KLP hopes for a nature-positive economy
The asset manager’s head of responsible investments speaks to Sophie Robinson-Tillett about her optimism that the COP15 agreement will lead to regulatory change
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Threefold rise in asset managers holding board responsible for ESG
Alongside NNIP and PGGM, the investors that took the biggest tumble down the rankings since 2020’s survey were State Street Global Advisors, PIMCO and Allianz Global Investors
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Investors should pay more attention to people, says Federated Hermes
EOS will next year expand its requirement for FTSE100 companies to have at least one director from a minority ethnic group to the FTSE350
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EU standards for ESG benchmarks could give funds ‘automatic’ pass under SFDR
Index providers will often direct clients to third-party data houses if they want more details about ESG
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The fight over SFDR’s role as a sustainability label
‘In the absence of an EU-wide labelling regime for ESG funds, some managers have also used Articles 8 and 9 as proxy labels for communication purposes,’ ESMA says
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NZAOA, BTPS, Church of England back climate performance tool
‘There is no rating or ranking or investment advice, just free, comparable data points for investors to use as they wish,’ says Barron
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Time for honesty in the face of the ESG backlash
Sustainable finance is a broad church: it covers small investors whose clients want their capital to benefit society through to big managers who only consider environmental and social issues if they stand to make money.
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Will the US pushback against ESG slow global progress?
Hostility towards asset managers embracing climate action and stewardship is raising questions on both sides of the Atlantic
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World’s biggest asset managers rein in support for ESG-related proposals
BlackRock and Vanguard blame boom in ‘overly prescriptive’ resolutions in 2022
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PRI adds biodiversity to global climate policy forecast
FSP+N assesses the likelihood of ‘forceful responses’ by rulemakers seeking to address climate change and biodiversity loss out to 2030 and 2050
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COP15: Biodiversity develops investment ecosystem
Biodiversity is fast catching up with climate change as a priority for investors and supervisors, and developments last year have set the stage for a productive 2023.
