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How clean energy investments are lagging, despite returns outshining fossil fuels for 10 years
How clean energy investments are lagging, despite returns outshining fossil fuels for 10 years

Study from IEA and Imperial highlights decade of clear evidence that renewables firms are performing better than fossil fuel-focused businesses

  • Energy
  • 19 March 2021
Reports: India mulling net zero emissions target for 2050
Reports: India mulling net zero emissions target for 2050

Bloomberg reports that Indian government is considering a 2047 net zero target to coincide mark a century of independence

  • Policy
  • 17 March 2021
'Forceful and accelerated': Top investor body predicts global climate policy response
'Forceful and accelerated': Top investor body predicts global climate policy response

Principles for Responsible Investment analysed policy trends to formulate detailed predictions on the likely extent of government intervention in key sectors of the economy as the net zero transition progresses

  • Policy
  • 17 March 2021
Net Zero Festival: BusinessGreen launches new Net Zero Nature Summit
Net Zero Festival: BusinessGreen launches new Net Zero Nature Summit

Latest Net Zero Festival event to explore the complex and fast-evolving role of nature in driving the net zero transition

  • Management
  • 16 March 2021
Living in a digital world
Living in a digital world

Harriet Parker from Liontrust's Sustainable Investment team offers an investment managers perspective on the search for more efficient IT systems

  • Investment
  • 16 March 2021
Net Zero Festival: Last chance to register for inaugural Net Zero Finance event
Net Zero Festival: Last chance to register for inaugural Net Zero Finance event

There are a handful of passes still available for tomorrow's Net Zero Finance summit, featuring top speakers such as Hiro Mizuno, Sonny Kapoor, and Catherine Howarth

  • Investment
  • 15 March 2021
Central banks should adopt explicit net zero strategies, economists argue
Central banks should adopt explicit net zero strategies, economists argue

Research led by LSE and SOAS academics argues central banks hold significant sway over the wider financial system's ability to reach net zero

  • Investment
  • 15 March 2021
CO2nstruct Zero: UK building industry eyes 250,000 green jobs on journey to net zero
CO2nstruct Zero: UK building industry eyes 250,000 green jobs on journey to net zero

New initiative from the Construction Leadership Council touts opportunity to attract £36bn of private investment in delivering net zero buildings and construction supply chain in UK

  • Buildings
  • 12 March 2021
Net Zero Finance: Financial innovation and how to bridge the green investment chasm
Net Zero Finance: Financial innovation and how to bridge the green investment chasm

Mobilising billions of dollars of low carbon investment is a huge challenge, but it is also a massive opportunity for those financiers willing to innovate in pursuit of net zero emissions

  • Investment
  • 12 March 2021
Zoom in on Net Zero - with Schroders' Carolina Minio-Paluello
Zoom in on Net Zero - with Schroders' Carolina Minio-Paluello

VIDEO: Global head of product, solutions and quant at the asset manager chats to BusinessGreen's James Murray about the complex path to net zero investment portfolios

  • Investment
  • 11 March 2021
HSBC pledges to cut off coal financing by 2040 following investor pressure
HSBC pledges to cut off coal financing by 2040 following investor pressure

Banking giant commits to ending support for coal by 2040 after reaching compromise with shareholders

  • Investment
  • 11 March 2021
Net Zero Investment Framework: What is in the IIGCC's net zero investment toolbox?
Net Zero Investment Framework: What is in the IIGCC's net zero investment toolbox?

Blueprint published this morning by IIGCC sets out tools, policies, and targets that can help asset managers and owners achieve net zero financed emissions by mid-century

  • Investment
  • 10 March 2021
Lord Adair Turner: Net zero transition promises 'attractive' returns for pension funds
Lord Adair Turner: Net zero transition promises 'attractive' returns for pension funds

Crossbench peer and chair of the Energy Transitions Commission tells pensions conference net zero infrastructure investments can offer better returns than gilts

  • Investment
  • 10 March 2021
'Make this a reality': How should asset managers start their net zero journey?
'Make this a reality': How should asset managers start their net zero journey?

Asset managers should be taking a more active role towards developing credible net zero strategies in the run up to COP26, a new paper argues

  • Investment
  • 09 March 2021
Wells Fargo becomes latest banking giant to set 2050 net zero financed emissions goal
Wells Fargo becomes latest banking giant to set 2050 net zero financed emissions goal

Investment bank says it will set interim emissions reduction targets for high-carbon portfolios by end of 2022

  • Investment
  • 09 March 2021
Zoom in on Net Zero - with Green Finance Institute CEO Rhian-Mari Thomas
Zoom in on Net Zero - with Green Finance Institute CEO Rhian-Mari Thomas

VIDEO: Chief executive of the government-backed, banker-led organisation chats to BusinessGreen's James Murray about the rapidly shifting world of green finance

  • Investment
  • 09 March 2021
Schroders: 2021 set to be 'year of decisive change' for climate action
Schroders: 2021 set to be 'year of decisive change' for climate action

Investment giant's Climate Progress Dashboard acknowledges current state of progress is 'disappointing', but predicts a step change in global action is underway

  • Investment
  • 08 March 2021
Morrisons pledges to be 'completely supplied' by net zero British farms by 2030
Morrisons pledges to be 'completely supplied' by net zero British farms by 2030

Supermarket reveals wide-ranging plan to work with suppliers to slash agricultural emissions and establish templates other farms can follow

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  • 08 March 2021
The 'three Ps' that are crucial for sustainable investing
The 'three Ps' that are crucial for sustainable investing

Schroders' head of European Blend Equities Nicholette MacDonald-Brown and fund manager Scott MacLennan explain the three elements at the core of their sustainable investing approach

  • Investment
  • 08 March 2021
Goldman Sachs commits to net zero financed emissions by 2050
Goldman Sachs commits to net zero financed emissions by 2050

US investment bank joins Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, and JP Morgan Chase in pledging to slash emissions from its financing activities over the coming decades

  • Investment
  • 05 March 2021
'COP26 is a few months away': MPs slam UK government's 'lack of plan' for Climate Summit and net zero transition
'COP26 is a few months away': MPs slam UK government's 'lack of plan' for Climate Summit and net zero transition

But government rubbishes 'nonsense' claims from two MP committees that UK lacks coordinated net zero strategy and clear outcomes for UN climate summit

  • Politics
  • 05 March 2021
Sold on climate action: Auctioneer Christie's eyes science-based net zero goal
Sold on climate action: Auctioneer Christie's eyes science-based net zero goal

Firm claims it is the first auction house to apply for accreditation for its decarbonisation plan from the Science-Based Targets initiative

  • Management
  • 05 March 2021
Net Zero Festival: MSCI and Schroders to partner with inaugural Net Zero Finance Summit
Net Zero Festival: MSCI and Schroders to partner with inaugural Net Zero Finance Summit

Net Zero Finance event to take place on March 16th as part of the Net Zero Festival, bringing together over 50 top green finance experts from around the world

  • Investment
  • 04 March 2021
Zoom in on Net Zero - with Sarasin & Partners' Natasha Landell-Mills
Zoom in on Net Zero - with Sarasin & Partners' Natasha Landell-Mills

VIDEO: Head of stewardship at the asset manager joins James Murray for a chat ahead of BusinessGreen's Net Zero Finance summit

  • Net Zero Now
  • 04 March 2021
Net Zero Festival 2021: Dates confirmed for full year-long festival programme
Net Zero Festival 2021: Dates confirmed for full year-long festival programme

Three day Net Zero Festival to take place from September 29th, providing a showcase for the best of the global net zero transition ahead of the COP26 Summit

  • Management
  • 03 March 2021
New Citi CEO commits bank to net zero financed emissions target on first day in role
New Citi CEO commits bank to net zero financed emissions target on first day in role

Firm joins Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, and JPMorgan Chase in pledging to reduce its operations and activity in line with global climate goals

  • Investment
  • 03 March 2021
Aviva Investors unveils wave of fossil fuel exclusion policies and net zero pledge
Aviva Investors unveils wave of fossil fuel exclusion policies and net zero pledge

Insurance giant confirms it will divest from major coal producers without accredited climate plans by the end of next year

  • Investment
  • 01 March 2021
Mark Carney responds to mounting criticism of 'net zero' claims
Mark Carney responds to mounting criticism of 'net zero' claims

Carney concedes avoided emissions do not count toward science-based net zero targets, despite previously claiming asset manager Brookfield is 'net zero today' due to its investments in renewables

  • Investment
  • 26 February 2021
'Worrying': Carney and Brookfield row throws spotlight on 'net zero' confusion
'Worrying': Carney and Brookfield row throws spotlight on 'net zero' confusion

COP26 finance advisor is under fire for claiming his investment firm Brookfield is 'net zero' despite its billions of investments in fossil fuels

  • Net Zero Now
  • 26 February 2021
What does delivering a net zero investment portfolio actually entail?
What does delivering a net zero investment portfolio actually entail?

  • Investment
  • 26 February 2021
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