The Investor Initiative on Human Rights Data will target big data and proxy houses to support just transition to a nature-positive and net-zero world. The Church Commissioners for England, together with Aviva Investors and Scottish Widows, has launched an initiative aimed at improving the quality of corporate human rights data available to investors. The three organisations initially came together in…
JDE Peet’s Launches New Series of Climate and Deforestation Goals
Coffee and tea company JDE Peet’s today a series of new climate-related goals, including 2030 targets for emissions reductions across its operations and supply chain, and to eliminate deforestation across its high-risk commodities by the end of 2025. The company said that its new goals have been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) as being consistent with SBTi’s…
Australia Court Finds Vanguard Guilty in Greenwashing Suit
A federal court in Australia released a ruling today, finding that Vanguard Investments Australia was guilty of making misleading claims about one of its ESG funds, including failing to exclude investments in companies with fossil fuel activities from the fund as claimed in its communication materials and disclosures. The suit against Vanguard was launched last year by Australia’s corporate, markets,…