executive pay

Is a failure to link exec pay and climate targets increasing corporate risk exposure?

Incentives

Is a failure to link exec pay and climate targets increasing corporate risk exposure?

Planet Tracker research warns investors face major risks from the widespread mismatch between executive incentives and corporate sustainability goals

clock 22 May 2025 • 4 min read
Tying executive pay to climate targets is the way forward

Management

Tying executive pay to climate targets is the way forward

Green executive pay incentives are a powerful route to achieving meaningful progress on sustainability goals, writes Smiths Group's John Ostergren

clock 11 March 2024 • 3 min read
Carbon Tracker: Oil majors continue to reward execs for driving fossil fuel production growth

Management

Carbon Tracker: Oil majors continue to reward execs for driving fossil fuel production growth

Fossil fuel giants' executive renumeration packages are betting against the clean energy transition, financial think tank warns

clock 29 February 2024 • 3 min read
'Lead by example': Standards body BSI debuts carbon budgets and green bonus schemes

Incentives

'Lead by example': Standards body BSI debuts carbon budgets and green bonus schemes

British Standards Institution unveils Carbon Allowance Model to promote 'shared responsibility' among staff for meeting its 2030 net zero goal

clock 25 April 2023 • 5 min read
AllianzGI vows to vote against firms that do not link executive pay to climate targets

Investment

AllianzGI vows to vote against firms that do not link executive pay to climate targets

Stronger incentives for executives to deliver corporate sustainability agenda could help speed up decarbonisation at major firms

clock 28 February 2022 • 2 min read
Why over half of FTSE 100 firms now link executive pay to ESG goals

Incentives

Why over half of FTSE 100 firms now link executive pay to ESG goals

Analysis by PwC also shows over a quarter of top firms now have executive remunerations linked to decarbonisation efforts

clock 23 November 2021 • 3 min read

Management

Green ceiling: New analysis reveals women are still under-represented in top energy and climate jobs

Big business, including leading sustainable and clean tech firms, continue to fail to promote women – to their own detriment

clock 21 May 2021 • 5 min read

Supply chain

'Welcome news': Fashion retailer Boohoo to link executive pay to sustainability goals

Online and high street clothing brand bows to pressure from shareholders and MPs after criticism of its environmental and labour practices

clock 20 May 2021 • 3 min read

Investment

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

clock 24 March 2021 • 2 min read

Management

Green bonuses: How ESG criteria are increasingly informing executive pay

Nearly half of FTSE 100 companies currently have an ESG measure in either annual bonus targets or long-term incentive plans, research from PwC has found

clock 18 March 2021 • 2 min read