Replace, Reduce and Remove. The 3Rs that constitute the three-pronged approach espoused by PUB, the national water agency of Singapore, in its hefty goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2045. The strategy by PUB focuses on replacing fossil fuels with renewable solar energy, investing in research and development to reduce the energy required in water-treatment processes, and capturing and…
Seas the Future: Singapore’s Visionary Leap into Oceanic Carbon Capture
Replace, Reduce and Remove. The 3Rs that constitute the three-pronged approach espoused by PUB, the national water agency of Singapore, in its hefty goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2045. The strategy by PUB focuses on replacing fossil fuels with renewable solar energy, investing in research and development to reduce the energy required in water-treatment processes, and capturing and…
Seas the Future: Singapore’s Visionary Leap into Oceanic Carbon Capture
Replace, Reduce and Remove. The 3Rs that constitute the three-pronged approach espoused by PUB, the national water agency of Singapore, in its hefty goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2045. The strategy by PUB focuses on replacing fossil fuels with renewable solar energy, investing in research and development to reduce the energy required in water-treatment processes, and capturing and…
Seas the Future: Singapore’s Visionary Leap into Oceanic Carbon Capture
Replace, Reduce and Remove. The 3Rs that constitute the three-pronged approach espoused by PUB, the national water agency of Singapore, in its hefty goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2045. The strategy by PUB focuses on replacing fossil fuels with renewable solar energy, investing in research and development to reduce the energy required in water-treatment processes, and capturing and…
Seas the Future: Singapore’s Visionary Leap into Oceanic Carbon Capture
Replace, Reduce and Remove. The 3Rs that constitute the three-pronged approach espoused by PUB, the national water agency of Singapore, in its hefty goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2045. The strategy by PUB focuses on replacing fossil fuels with renewable solar energy, investing in research and development to reduce the energy required in water-treatment processes, and capturing and…
Aegon Gains from ESG Measurement of AMs
A move to a professional trustee model from lay people in the UK was also mooted during a debate on manager selection at the Stewardship Summit 2024. Insurer and pension provider Aegon UK has seen tangible improvement in aligning its asset managers with its responsible investment beliefs following targeted dialogue and monitoring. Speaking at ESG Investor’s Stewardship Summit 2024, Samantha…
ShareAction CEO Signals Stewardship Recession
Industry pundits called for more “courage” and a universal ownership approach during ESG Investor’s Stewardship Summit 2024. Stewardship efforts globally have been weakened by the anti-ESG backlash in the US, threatening sustainability-related progress, experts have said. As such, asset owners are now being urged to embrace their role as universal owners and implement macro stewardship. Speaking during ESG Investor’s 2024…
EU Adopts Rules Requiring All New Buildings to Be Zero Emissions by 2030
The European Council announced today that it has formally adopted the revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), with new rules aimed at reducing energy use and emissions from buildings across the EU, including targets for all new buildings to be zero emissions by 2030, and to phase out the use of fossil fuels in building heating systems by 2040….
Surfing the Sustainability Wave
CalSTRS Sustainable Investment Director Kirsty Jenkinson talks about taking a hard line on companies failing to disclose emissions properly and treating proxy voting as seriously as portfolio investments. It’s been just over five years since Kirsty Jenkinson became Investment Director for the Sustainable Investment and Stewardship Strategies (SISS) team at the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) – the largest…
Surfing the Sustainability Wave
CalSTRS Sustainable Investment Director Kirsty Jenkinson talks about taking a hard line on companies failing to disclose emissions properly and treating proxy voting as seriously as portfolio investments. It’s been just over five years since Kirsty Jenkinson became Investment Director for the Sustainable Investment and Stewardship Strategies (SISS) team at the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) – the largest…