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There appears to be little difference between Article 8 and Article 6 French bond funds when it comes to their exposure to fossil fuels, French financial regulator the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) has found. In a report published last week, the AMF looked at the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) requirements of approximately 10,600 … Read more

A possible 60% of food systems emissions, and 20% of global emissions, could be cut by 2030 if financial institutions engage for change with the companies they invest in, according to a climate think tank. Planet Tracker has analysed more than 400,000 companies, across 160 countries, including some of the world’s biggest brands such as … Read more

The top 50 greenhouse gas emitters in Asia Pacific have broad climate ambitions, but this is not quite matched by action taken so far, according to Barclays’ research team. Its recent study, The Asia 50: Biggest corporate emitters can improve on climate actions, looked at the 50 largest greenhouse gas emitters in the region among … Read more

Remember the commodities boom? It was the bull market of the early 2000s that was largely propelled by the emerging markets. It also helped those economies become a critical component of the balanced portfolios that we know today. The boom showed the latent power and long-term potential of emerging markets and highlighted the value of … Read more

Ulrik Fugmann, co-head of the Environmental Strategies Group, BNP Paribas Asset Management: There are few places to invest in public markets and BNP Paribas Asset Management supports some key movers in this nascent technology through its BNP Paribas Energy Transition Fund. One obvious element with carbon capture is cost, but as adoption increases, this should … Read more

UBS’s takeover by Credit Suisse has been labelled an example of “disastrous” governance, in a deal that raises questions about the preferential treatment of some shareholders at the expense of others who will lose everything. Jerome Legras, head of research at Axiom Alternative Investments, an asset manager specialising in the European financial sector, said the … Read more

Legal and General Investment Management, KBI Global Investors and Amundi are among a $4trn coalition of 15 investors who have written to the 13 biggest chemical companies in Europe to insist they set a path to transition away from their reliance on fossil fuels in order to live up to the climate policies many have … Read more

The UK’s department for environment, food and rural affairs (Defra) and the British Standards Institution (BSI) have partnered to launch the Nature Investment Standards Programme. The programme will become a framework to help build confidence in nature markets, scale up investments in nature and guard against greenwashing. The framework aims to set clear principles and … Read more

Greenwashing has been characterized across a broad spectrum: from hypocrisy to fraud and everything in between. It’s important to conceptualize greenwashing appropriately and accurately because it influences what we do about it. The original conception of greenwashing is that of a company that tries to make consumers believe it cares about the environment, when in … Read more

Some 2.2bn people currently live without access to safe water, while 4.2bn go without safe sanitation services. The significance of this finite resource is wide-reaching, with the United Nations (UN) estimating that water is the primary medium through which we will feel the effects of climate change. The UN has also estimated that around 70% … Read more