Clarity AI, a sustainability technology platform, and CDP, a non-profit which runs a global environmental disclosure system, have today announced a new data partnership. The venture will focus on jointly developing and bringing to market new products for financial institutions to measure and act on their environmental impact. CDP data will be used in Clarity … Read more
The technologies we need to achieve the low carbon transition are ready. Clean power generation is well established, with renewables in Europe supplying more energy than gas for the first time in 2022. Battery technology is becoming increasingly advanced, enabling a transport revolution and changing the way grids will operate. There is also growing realisation, … Read more
Say on Climate votes should be mandatory for all companies subject to the European Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, the climate and sustainable finance commission (CCFD) has told French regulator the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF). The CCFD, which comprises financial markets, stakeholders, companies, academics, experts and representatives of civil society, yesterday published its recommendations based … Read more
Franklin Templeton has added an emerging markets product to its Paris-aligned ETF range. The Franklin MSCI Emerging Markets Paris Aligned Climate UCITS ETF will track the MSCI Emerging Markets Climate Paris Aligned Index covering large- and mid-cap stocks across 24 emerging regions that are transitioning to a low carbon economy. It is the fourth product … Read more
Since the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) came into force in March 2021, we have had some significant updates, including confirmation from the European Commission that Article 9 funds should only invest in sustainable assets and an amended Taxonomy that now includes natural gas and nuclear power, with the consequent changes to disclosure templates … Read more
Only 28 companies around the world, less than 1%, have closed their gender pay gap, according to research from Equileap. Dismal action on the gender pay gap is happening while information on it is kept hidden – the report found 78% of companies do not publish information on pay differences. Just 18 companies in the … Read more
City Hive has released the winning images in it’s Fearless Woman photography competition. The competition was launched to find alternatives to basic, stereotypical images found when the words ‘female investor’ is typed into any search engine. The winning entries will form an up-to-date and dynamic bank of photographic assets to better represent what a female … Read more
Bethany Dudley, director, head of strategic partnerships at Foresight: “We are seeing an increase in the number of female-founded companies we invest in across our VCT funds, particularly in the healthcare sector. “A notable example is HomeLink Healthcare, which was founded by Jill Ireland, CEO and clinical director. Formed in 2015, it has provided ‘hospital-at-home’ … Read more
Industry network Black Women in Asset Management (BWAM) is growing fast, having held its first annual conference last year and recently launched a cross-company mentorship scheme. Here, the network’s CEO Jacqueline Taiwo sits down with ESG Clarity to talk about why she set up the group and what she hopes to see from the industry … Read more
Gender diversity at companies, and investment in those companies, are creeping up hand-in-hand, recent research shows. MSCI’s Women on Boards Progress Report, which assessed the gender diversity among senior leadership of 2,800+ of the world’s largest companies over the past year, has found a 1.9% year-on-year increase of women on boards globally, up to 24.5% … Read more