Sustainability – Page 17
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NewsMorningstar proxy season analysis: ESG shareholder resolution growth primarily driven by ‘anti-ESG’ proponents
Overall support for ESG proposals stayed flat in 2024 at 23%, with a marked rise in anti-ESG resolutions.
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NewsBiodiversity foundation sets ambitious nature targets for investors
The guide has been developed in alignment with key initiatives on nature and climate change, including the TNFD, SBTN, and UNEP FI
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NewsIA calls for improvement in analysis of climate-related risks and opportunities
The report outlines the Investment Association’s plans to galvanise effective policymaking to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon and climate-resilient economy.
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NewsIASB proposes illustrative examples to improve climate-related reporting
The proposals come in response to strong demand from investors who have complained that companies often fail to back up climate-related statements
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NewsISSB, EU achieve high degree of interoperability in sustainability reporting
Sue Lloyd, ISSB chair, says that the ISSB, EFRAG and the European Commission ‘have collaborated to achieve a high degree of alignment’
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NewsICSWG launches workstream to enhance sustainable investment practices
Regulations have unintentionally led many trustees to spend most of their sustainability time and budgets on compliance-focused activities, says group
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NewsBaFin changes supervisory practice following ESMA’s fund names guidelines
ESMA’s guidelines will ‘completely replace’ BaFin’s old supervisory approach, says BaFin’s Thorsten Pötzsch
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Are sustainability standards a distraction?
The debate about standardised reporting of Scope 3 emissions loses sight of an important point about the need for judgment, says Iancu Daramus
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AnalysisIPE Netherlands Briefing: Dutch insurers eye more buyouts
Plus: PMT’s ESG exclusion framework and PGGM’s DEI pledge
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NewsItalian vets scheme picks bfinance to design sustainable investment policy
Enpav’s investment strategy has so far lacked the integration of ESG criteria
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NewsICGN sets out investor sustainability assurance expectations
The corporate governance group has called on national regulators to adopt upcoming IAASB and IESBA sustainability assurance standards
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NewsISSB vice-chair rules out changes to its sustainability rules
“We’re not in the market for collecting suggestions for amendments to brand new standards”, says Sue Lloyd
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NewsWiltshire Pension Fund appoints LOIM, Barnett Waddingham
The scheme will invest £75m in LOIM’s Planetary Transition strategy
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NewsNGOs announce ‘independent, science-backed’ taxonomy to raise EU game
New platform ‘not intended as critique of EU taxonomy’
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NewsEC official dismisses concerns about CSRD materiality assessments
Sven Gentner was speaking on a panel at IPE’s recent Transition conference
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NewsSwiss association urges asset owners to hold managers accountable for stewardship
‘We are not activist investors,’ says AMAS CEO
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NewsDutch pensions body positive about ESA SFDR government bonds proposal
But wary of sustainability indicator idea
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: When the climate bill comes, how much should we tip?
The rhetoric around ‘tipping points’ is often misunderstood, says Iancu Daramus
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AnalysisIPE ESG Briefing: ESG integration costs and other challenges
Plus: IPE Top 500 Managers report on ESG headcount; European Union: elections, CSDDD and SFDR
