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Agents of sustainable change: How investors expect companies to be socially aware
Agents of sustainable change: How investors expect companies to be socially aware

Our Global Investor Study 2020 reveals investor and consumer views on company responsibility for tackling climate change, writes Schroders' Vicki Owen

  • Investment
  • 22 October 2020
PwC: Less than a third of UK banks have net zero targets in place
PwC: Less than a third of UK banks have net zero targets in place

Major new study from consultancy giant reveals UK banks are more engaged with climate risks than ever before, but decarbonisation plans remain underpowered

  • Investment
  • 21 October 2020
Net Zero Festival: The economic case for net zero
Net Zero Festival: The economic case for net zero

VIDEO: Chris Stark, CEO of the Committee on Climate Change, explains how rapid innovation is making the economic case for a net zero transition even more compelling every year

  • Investment
  • 14 October 2020
UK's first local government green bond raises £1m for West Berkshire District Council
UK's first local government green bond raises £1m for West Berkshire District Council

New funds to help deliver solar arrays, LED traffic lights, cycleways, and nature protection projects

  • Investment
  • 14 October 2020
'Reinvest in Earth': New initiative aims to mobilise $10bn of climate funding
'Reinvest in Earth': New initiative aims to mobilise $10bn of climate funding

Global Returns Project calls on individuals to commit 0.25 per cent of their savings to support not-for-profit climate solutions

  • Investment
  • 13 October 2020
Net Zero Festival: The investment case for net zero
Net Zero Festival: The investment case for net zero

VIDEO: Abyd Karmali OBE, managing director for sustainable finance at Bank of America, sets out the three key reasons for companies to turbocharge their net zero efforts, and how investors can benefit

  • Investment
  • 12 October 2020
Net Zero Festival: Mobilising finance for a green recovery
Net Zero Festival: Mobilising finance for a green recovery

VIDEO: Gavin Esler chats to Schroders' Andrew Howard, Dr Rhian-Mari Thomas from the Green Finance Institute, Scottish Widows' Maria Nazarova-Doyle, and Lord Barker from En+

  • Investment
  • 12 October 2020
Institutional investors managing $5tr pledge 2025 portfolio CO2 goals
Institutional investors managing $5tr pledge 2025 portfolio CO2 goals

BT Pension Fund, Church of England, and Allianz among group of major investors collectively pledging to set new five-year emission reduction targets

  • Investment
  • 12 October 2020
ESG considerations mount at fixed income asset managers, industry survey finds
ESG considerations mount at fixed income asset managers, industry survey finds

Annual survey of asset managers by Russell Investments points to increasing focus and concern over climate risk

  • Investment
  • 12 October 2020
City of London eyes 800 green jobs as it maps path to net zero by 2040
City of London eyes 800 green jobs as it maps path to net zero by 2040

Governing body of UK capital's financial district lays out detailed decarbonisation and green investment roadmap

  • Investment
  • 08 October 2020
Investors managing £10tr urge UK government to issue maiden green bond
Investors managing £10tr urge UK government to issue maiden green bond

BlackRock, NatWest, Barclays and Schroders among firms urging government to issue sovereign bond ring-fenced for green projects in wake of Covid-19 downturn

  • Investment
  • 08 October 2020
South Yorkshire Pensions Authority sets 2030 carbon neutral goal
South Yorkshire Pensions Authority sets 2030 carbon neutral goal

Local authority pension fund members vote in favour of goal for investments to reach net zero emissions within the next decade

  • Investment
  • 08 October 2020
Green Finance Institute spearheads drive to scale up national green banks worldwide
Green Finance Institute spearheads drive to scale up national green banks worldwide

UK's Green Finance Institute and US NGOs to develop Green Bank Design Platform in order to help governments set up financial vehicles to support climate and environmental solutions

  • Investment
  • 24 September 2020
Climate tech venture capital investment soars to record levels
Climate tech venture capital investment soars to record levels

But new PwC report warns 'rapid injection of capital, talent and public-private support' still required for climate tech to deliver on its massive promise

  • Venture Capital
  • 23 September 2020
New PACTA tool to help banks finance journey to Paris Agreement
New PACTA tool to help banks finance journey to Paris Agreement

2C Investing Initiative launches new initaitive to support growing band of banks committed to bringing their investments into line with the Paris Agreement

  • Investment
  • 16 September 2020
'It is time for the rest to follow': Leading investors call on 161 top CEOs to target net zero
'It is time for the rest to follow': Leading investors call on 161 top CEOs to target net zero

Climate action 100+ writes to CEOs of world's largest greenhouse gas emitting firms urging them to develop net zero-aligned business strategies

  • Investment
  • 14 September 2020
Bulk of UK banks lack convincing climate strategy, Ethical Consumer warns
Bulk of UK banks lack convincing climate strategy, Ethical Consumer warns

Conclusion based on research conducted by the magazine, which asked how banks were measuring and evaluating the climate impacts of their investments

  • Investment
  • 10 September 2020
'Significant game-changer': How Transition Bonds could help heavy industries clean up their act
'Significant game-changer': How Transition Bonds could help heavy industries clean up their act

New report from Climate Bonds Initiative and Credit Suisse proposes new standards for emerging Transition Bonds category

  • Investment
  • 09 September 2020
Climate risk: Amazon, Allianz, Microsoft, and S&P Global join open data initiative
Climate risk: Amazon, Allianz, Microsoft, and S&P Global join open data initiative

Linux Foundation spearheads new drive to harness AI and open source data to combat climate risk

  • Risk
  • 02 September 2020
Hundreds of UK pension schemes to fall under climate risk reporting rules
Hundreds of UK pension schemes to fall under climate risk reporting rules

Pension schemes holding more than £1bn of assets will be required to publicly disclose climate risk in their portfolios by 2023 or face penalties

  • Investment
  • 26 August 2020
Double materiality: Why nature risk and climate risk are two sides of the same coin
Double materiality: Why nature risk and climate risk are two sides of the same coin

Current regulation and risk disclosure efforts are insufficient for tackling the varying and complex risks posed by nature loss and climate change, UCL research argues

  • Investment
  • 26 August 2020
'Renewable energy is here to stay': Investors swinging behind 'good energy', report finds
'Renewable energy is here to stay': Investors swinging behind 'good energy', report finds

UK-listed clean energy and tech stocks grew by an average of 170 per cent over the past year, the report finds

  • Investment
  • 24 August 2020
UK tots up £6bn in climate finance for developing counties since 2011
UK tots up £6bn in climate finance for developing counties since 2011

International Climate Finance mobilised by UK has helped avoid an estimated 33 million tonnes of greenhouse gases, government estimates

  • Investment
  • 20 August 2020
Global green bond market rallies towards Covid-19 recovery
Global green bond market rallies towards Covid-19 recovery

After tough start to 2020 due to pandemic global green bond issuance rallied in the second quarter of 2020, says Moody's

  • Investment
  • 20 August 2020
Why the Covid-19 recovery and climate crisis need a unified response
Why the Covid-19 recovery and climate crisis need a unified response

The EU's proposed Green Deal shows that the right policy initiatives could address the economic crisis and climate change simultaneously

  • Investment
  • 13 August 2020
What could a Biden presidency mean for climate change investing?
What could a Biden presidency mean for climate change investing?

Joe Biden in the White House, and potentially Democrats in control of the Senate too, could turbo-charge climate change as an investment theme, argues Schroders' Simon Webber

  • Policy
  • 13 August 2020
'We could fix our world': Martin Freeman voices net zero pension campaign animation
'We could fix our world': Martin Freeman voices net zero pension campaign animation

Animation features a 'woolly man' voiced by Sherlock actor calling for pension investments to help protect against the 'ravages of climate change'

  • Investment
  • 12 August 2020
'Structural changes are needed': Schroders warns recovery likely to lead to resurgence in global emissions
'Structural changes are needed': Schroders warns recovery likely to lead to resurgence in global emissions

Latest edition of investment giant's Climate Progress Dashboard warns coronavirus crisis could undermine efforts to put global economy on track for net zero emissions

  • Investment
  • 11 August 2020
BusinessGreen debuts Net Zero Investment Hub
BusinessGreen debuts Net Zero Investment Hub

Hosted in partnership with Schroders, the new Net Zero Investment Hub brings together cutting-edge insights and analysis on how the world of finance is embracing the net zero transition

  • Investment
  • 10 August 2020
Sustainability: Six ways the corporate world will have to change
Sustainability: Six ways the corporate world will have to change

As part of the all-new Net Zero Investment Hub, Schroders' Andrew Howard and Seema Suchak explore six key areas that point to a changing role of the corporate sector in society in the face of 'inescapable truths'

  • Investment
  • 10 August 2020
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