A selection of the major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces.  A stark message in Bonn underlined the tensions between electoral cycles and long-term sustainability.   Climate “collusion” – Republican politicians faced off against US institutional investors on Capitol Hill this week, in the latest round of the war on ‘woke’ capitalism. Having published a report claiming “bullying”…

Early-stage investors must focus on the ocean economy to make waves in the climate race, according to Ed Phillips, Investment Director at Future Planet Capital.  As we move into the summer months, we can expect headlines to be filled with record-breaking temperatures and unprecedented wildfires driven by climate change. While what happens on land will make our changing climate visceral…

Rhodri Preece, Senior Head of Research at the CFA Institute, says emerging technologies can help investment professionals draw insights from unstructured ESG data. Data is being generated at an exponential rate, and the technology powering the algorithms used to parse it is growing just as fast, opening up both new opportunities for investing and innovative ways to leverage alternative data….

Rhodri Preece, Senior Head of Research at the CFA Institute, says emerging technologies can help investment professionals draw insights from unstructured ESG data. Data is being generated at an exponential rate, and the technology powering the algorithms used to parse it is growing just as fast, opening up both new opportunities for investing and innovative ways to leverage alternative data….