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The Pensions Regulator touts net zero plans as it urges schemes to 'act now' on climate risk
The Pensions Regulator touts net zero plans as it urges schemes to 'act now' on climate risk

UK workplace pension schemes watchdog plans to issue guidance to help industry meet stricter climate risk disclosure rules coming into force later this year

  • Investment
  • 08 April 2021
Bond investors and sustainability: Is it all greenwash?
Bond investors and sustainability: Is it all greenwash?

With issuance of green, social and sustainability bonds expected to hit a record $650bn this year, Schroders head of sustainable credit Saida Eggerstedt tackles the topic of greenwashing

  • Investment
  • 06 April 2021
Aviva launches climate transition fund for workplace pension schemes
Aviva launches climate transition fund for workplace pension schemes

The actively-managed equity fund will seek to invest in companies actively tackling climate change by furthering the low carbon transition, according to Aviva

  • Investment
  • 01 April 2021
It's time for central banks to match their green words with actions
It's time for central banks to match their green words with actions

Central banks and financial supervisors have a key role to play in closing the curtains on dirty finance and unlocking a tidal wave of green investment, writes Positive Money economist David Barmes

  • Investment
  • 01 April 2021
LGIM and Mercer set out frameworks to achieve 2050 net zero targets
LGIM and Mercer set out frameworks to achieve 2050 net zero targets

Legal & General Investment Management's defined contribution pensions business has set out its plan to decarbonise its investment portfolio, while US asset manager Mercer has also pledged to deliver net zero by 2050

  • Investment
  • 31 March 2021
British Airways leads $24.3m investment in hydrogen aircraft developer ZeroAvia
British Airways leads $24.3m investment in hydrogen aircraft developer ZeroAvia

Shell and Systemiq also among investors in developer which aims to begin operating first commercial-scale 50-seater aircraft by 2026

  • Aviation
  • 31 March 2021
The UK must ensure best available cost assumptions underpin its net zero stategy
The UK must ensure best available cost assumptions underpin its net zero stategy

Investor appeal for capital intensive low-carbon activities risks being reduced if policy strategies overstate costs by assuming high interest rates, explains The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group's Beverley Cornaby

  • Investment
  • 31 March 2021
G20 central banks failing to turn climate advocacy into action, research finds
G20 central banks failing to turn climate advocacy into action, research finds

Despite growing focus on risk disclosure and green investing, few central banks have taken concrete actions to cut off support for fossil fuels, Positive Money claims

  • Risk
  • 31 March 2021
Confidence is evaporating: How fossil fuel share offerings plummet $123bn since 2012
Confidence is evaporating: How fossil fuel share offerings plummet $123bn since 2012

Finds raised through stock market flotations for companies involved in fossil fuels have dwindles, while clean energy IPOs begin to surge, analysis suggests

  • Risk
  • 31 March 2021
EU risks 'overestimating' costs of meeting 2030 climate goals, businesses warn
EU risks 'overestimating' costs of meeting 2030 climate goals, businesses warn

European Commission's economic and energy modelling must be improved to avoid inflating costs, European Corporate Leaders Group warns

  • Investment
  • 31 March 2021
'Bolt on the rocket boosters': Energy Systems Catapult calls for sweeping electricity market reform to drive net zero revolution
'Bolt on the rocket boosters': Energy Systems Catapult calls for sweeping electricity market reform to drive net zero revolution

New report says raft of policy changes geared incentivising innovators to create new low carbon products and services for consumers could generate 'big bang' moment for the energy sector akin to finance in the 80s and telecoms in the 90s

  • Energy
  • 31 March 2021
'Build Back Better': When is an industrial strategy not an industrial strategy?
'Build Back Better': When is an industrial strategy not an industrial strategy?

As the government announces another wave of clean tech funding, a new Plan for Growth is taking shape – and it looks a lot like the industrial strategy it replaces

  • Policy
  • 30 March 2021
Study: Development banks are backing clean energy, but are struggling to kick fossil fuel habit
Study: Development banks are backing clean energy, but are struggling to kick fossil fuel habit

Analysis of investments made by nine of the world's biggest development banks has found that they spent four times more on clean energy than fossil fuels in 2020

  • Investment
  • 30 March 2021
'Roll out the green carpet': UK government confirms plans for pre-COP26 Global Investment Summit
'Roll out the green carpet': UK government confirms plans for pre-COP26 Global Investment Summit

Boris Johnson to team up with members of the Royal Family to host October meeting of top business leaders and financiers, as President Biden confirms guest list for pre-COP26 meeting of world leaders

  • Policy
  • 29 March 2021
Not an April Fools: Green economy incredulous over Nigel Farage's new green finance job
Not an April Fools: Green economy incredulous over Nigel Farage's new green finance job

In his first non-political role, the former UKIP and Brexit Party leader has been hired as the first member of the advisory board for carbon offsetting business Dutch Green Business Group

  • Offsets
  • 29 March 2021
BlackRock and Vanguard join wave of top investors signing up to Net Zero Asset Managers initiative
BlackRock and Vanguard join wave of top investors signing up to Net Zero Asset Managers initiative

Addition of 43 new asset managers triples size of fast-expanding investor-backed climate group

  • Investment
  • 29 March 2021
Behind the S Curve: The failure of corporate leadership in the age of climate crisis
Behind the S Curve: The failure of corporate leadership in the age of climate crisis

A new survey reveals how a sizeable minority of CEOs are continuing to ignore climate issues - their misjudgement amounts to a shocking dereliction of duty

  • 26 March 2021
Octopus on Octopus: Energy supplier to take on 2.8GW renewable power portfolio
Octopus on Octopus: Energy supplier to take on 2.8GW renewable power portfolio

Octopus Energy to bring retail business and 2.8GW renewables portfolio under single roof as it aims to match supply with generation

  • Energy
  • 26 March 2021
Net Zero Finance: Navigating the booming climate, green and transition bond market
Net Zero Finance: Navigating the booming climate, green and transition bond market

VIDEO: Climate Bonds Initiative's Sean Kidney, LaFargeHolcim's Nicolas Vaniet, MSCI's Elisabeth Seep, and Ben Caldecott of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme discuss the trends, challenges and potential of the rapidly evolving green bonds market...

  • Investment
  • 25 March 2021
'Fuelling climate chaos': How big banks poured $750bn into fossil fuels during the pandemic year
'Fuelling climate chaos': How big banks poured $750bn into fossil fuels during the pandemic year

Fossil fuel financing declined by nine per cent in 2020 amid the economic downturn, but campaigners warn overall trend is 'one heading definitively in the wrong direction'

  • Investment
  • 24 March 2021
'Critical step': Government plots mandatory climate risk rules for 1,600 UK firms
'Critical step': Government plots mandatory climate risk rules for 1,600 UK firms

Government sets out proposals to make TCFD disclosures mandatory for large publicly quoted companies, large private companies, and LLPs

  • Investment
  • 24 March 2021
Banks have a key role to play in net zero - but there are no quick-fix solutions
Banks have a key role to play in net zero - but there are no quick-fix solutions

Achieving net zero is crucial to the long-term success of our customers, our communities and our economy, writes NatWest Group chief executive Alison Rose

  • Investment
  • 24 March 2021
Net Zero Finance: What role do investors have to play in the green transition?
Net Zero Finance: What role do investors have to play in the green transition?

VIDEO: Schroders' Carolina Minio Paluello, Adam Matthews from the Church of England Pension Scheme, IIGCC chair and Brunel Pension Partnership's Faith Ward, and ShareAction CEO Catherine Howarth offer their insights on the growing drive towards net zero...

  • Investment
  • 24 March 2021
Legal & General ties boardroom bonuses to expanded net zero goals
Legal & General ties boardroom bonuses to expanded net zero goals

Pensions, insurance, property and asset management giant unveils fresh interim climate commitments as part of drive to net zero portfolio emissions by 2050

  • Investment
  • 24 March 2021
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