Climate change – Page 50
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NewsWarnings, further requests formulated over trustee climate risk duties
Industry responds to consultation on draft TCFD-based regulations for occupational pension schemes
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NewsInvestors ‘need not wait’ on net-zero as framework passes portfolio test
Delivery of final net-zero investment framework hailed as ‘historic moment for financial services’
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Industry veterans launch renewable energy multi-manager platform
Renewity aims to address absence of ‘scale and speed’ in accessing renewable energy opportunities by institutional investors
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NewsBlackRock builds energy transition into capital market assumptions
‘Climate-aware’ assumptions reflect view that successful transition will be a source of growth and return
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NewsPressure on AP funds to turn green wrong-headed, say Swedish academics
Four professors criticise political drive for AP funds to invest in exclusively sustainable manner
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NewsATP sees ‘major impact’ coming from EU’s green financing work
Denmark’s biggest pension fund takes issue with measuring carbon footprints
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NewsFinland roundup: Varma cuts fossils; VER returns 4%; Elo 3.6%
Varma’s climate portfolio reaches 12.4% of €50.2bn total assets
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AP1’s new CEO applauds team’s gutsy mindset
Swedish pensions buffer fund matches AP3’s return and narrowly beats AP4 in 2020 with 9.7% gain
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NewsNBIM says axed conferences meant fewer company meetings last year
Pandemic may have strengthened companies’ work on sustainability, says Norway’s SWF
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NewsESG roundup: New carbon pricing call to action launched
Plus: academics find ‘bad’ energy companies better for green innovation; Oxbridge endowment adopts dual mandate
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AP4 sets 2040 net-zero goal after whittling down energy holdings
Swedish buffer fund reports 9.6% return for 2020
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Net-zero asset owner group seeks asset manager blended finance action
De-risking needed to allow investors to ramp up investments in climate mitigation, in both OECD and non-OECD markets
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NewsEC’s sustainable governance play: Asset owners wary of potential snags
A good EU legal framework would help to institutionalise the process of just climate transition, says UK’s LAPFF
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New UK centre aims to ‘transform availability of climate data in finance’
Asset owners lent their backing to the Centre for Greening Finance and Investment
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NewsAP2: Value strategy hit 2020 return, but makes long-term sense
Swedish national pension fund posts 3.5% return — less than half of its long-term average
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NewsShell sets out net-zero plan details, to grant regular shareholder vote
Climate Acton 100+ investors hail announcement and engagement effect; campaign group sees response to shareholder resolution votes
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NewsNorway enlists experts to probe climate opportunities for SWF
More knowledge needed on how the green transition will affect oil fund, says Finance Minister
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NewsPossible IFRS sustainability standards board announcement at COP26
IFRS Foundation trustees flag possible definitive proposal by end of September 2021
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New think tank to scrutinise impact, efficacy of investor engagement
Universal Owner has been set up by former co-founder of InfluenceMap, an NGO
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Climate roundup: APG dumps KEPCO and eight others over coal pursuit
Plus: Aviva Investors announces escalation programme; Smart Pension makes net-zero pledge
