Institutional investors double down on desire for diversity, with an increase of more than 60% in charter participation. The Asset Owner Diversity Charter (AODC) has looked to accelerate its work on promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) among fund managers, having recently introduced an advisory board. The board was launched on 9 April, with members’ organisations including HSBC Asset Management,…

Latest iteration of the alliance’s target-setting protocol expands coverage to private markets, providing more detail on sovereign debt.  The Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) has called on governments to better align with climate science to prevent a gap between their emissions reduction target-setting and decarbonisation progress in the real economy.   “Governments plays such a huge role as enablers for…

As global momentum builds behind transition planning, Mark Manning, Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, makes the case for a systemic response to climate change. The UK’s Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) hit a significant milestone last week with the release of its final set of transition plan resources to help businesses mobilise finance for the net zero…

A selection of the major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces.  Many people and organisations forging the path to net zero were facing up to the need to manage change this week. Help yourself – Transition planners were given further guidance this week, with a slew of reports from the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), a…

Shagun Kumar, TMF Group’s Head of APAC, explains how special purpose vehicles can support private sector investment in Asia’s renewables sector. Asia is one of the world’s most dynamic environments for investment in renewable energy assets, underpinned by a perfect storm of needs: population growth, rising demand, supply pressures and abundant renewable resources. The Asia Pacific region is expected to…

Jillian Stacy, Business Manager for Sustainable Chemistry at Enhesa, says detailed assessments are needed to track the hazards hiding in supply chains and production processes. The bar is about to be raised on what it means to be a sustainable company. New standards being developed to address the impact of business activities on biodiversity loss, which is the degradation of…