A selection of this week’s major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces. The ‘Big Apple’ saw the launch of a critical initiative for nature-led investment. Natural cycle – Centre stage at the start of New York Climate Week was given over to the unveiling of the final recommendations of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures. This marks the…

After intensive development, implementation of the recommendations of the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures will still be a massive task, says Lindsey Stewart, Director, Investment Stewardship Research at Morningstar. Most of my research covers engagement and voting on sustainability and governance topics. Which is to say, I spend most of my time writing about things people argue about. So, for…

Brian Waswani Odhiambo, Partner at Novastar Ventures, proposes solutions to close the climate funding gap between Africa and the Global North. With New York Climate Week in full swing this week, I reflect again on Africa’s first climate summit, which concluded earlier this month in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital. It was here where more than a dozen African heads of state…

Stéphanie Mielnik, Research Director at Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute, examines the impact of the EU Deforestation Law on soy producers and their bondholders. In what has proved to be a world first, the EU has adopted regulation aimed at dramatically reducing the economic bloc’s exposure to the deforestation that lies behind many of its supply chains for popular products such…

Sir Ronald Cohen, veteran venture capitalist and impact investing guru, explains why he believes we’re on the verge of an impact revolution. According to Oscar Wilde, a cynic is a man who “knows the price of everything but the value of nothing”. Sir Ronald Cohen is a man who wants to know the price of everything a company does to impact…

UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has announced a major U-turn on the UK’s “net zero” policies.  This amounts to 3 key policy changes: Electric vehicles – 3 years after announcing a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles from 2030, the ban has been delayed to 2035; New exceptions to ban on sale of new domestic gas…

On 12 September 2023, Brazil´s Attorney General Office, representing the Brazilian Federal Environmental Agency, filed a climate litigation lawsuit against a livestock farmer, seeking compensation for the deforestation of the Amazon Forest between 2003 and 2016. This blog post provides a brief overview on this new lawsuit, which further strengthens a new trend for climate litigation in Brazil. The main…