ESG Special Reports – Page 14
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Climate change mitigation is a good investment
International support is needed to reverse the vicious circle of climate vulnerability and higher cost of capital in developing countries
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Making impact investing more investor-friendly
Impact investing – investing in a way that delivers both attractive financial returns and measurable social or environmental benefits – has come a long way in the last decade.
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Walking the walk
In the past, fund managers would not necessarily spring to mind when thinking of ways to tackle climate change. Yet we are increasingly seeing more and more investors on the environmental frontline
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Gender balance: what’s your excuse?
Investors should accept that there has been more than enough time to sensitise boards. Now is the time for brave leadership
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The very real limits of ESG integration
Just because asset managers consider ESG measures in investment decisions, it does not mean they give them much weight
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ESG hedge funds: a contradiction in terms?
ESG hedge fund sounds like an oxymoron. The goals of absolute returns and the ideals of sustainable investing appear to be in opposition – self-contradictory, even
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ESG is hot – handle with care
ESG is a relatively new but powerful idea. However, to avoid misunderstandings, it is time to engage more thoughtfully on how it is used by investors and regulators
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Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, Emission Impossible
When Chris Hitchen, CEO of the UK’s Railpen, thinks about portfolio fossil-fuel exposure, there is no room for moral absolutes. The discussion is “quite different” now that oil trades at $45/bbl rather than $115/bbl, he insists.
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Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, A changing climate
After years of campaigning, a series of recent moves from influential investors suggests that anti-fossil fuel groups are getting money on their side. Mark Nicholls looks at how the risk management and divestment movements are shaping up
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Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, a timeline
July 2011: The Carbon Tracker Initiative launches its seminal ‘Carbon Bubble’ report which, for the first time, puts the 2°C climate change target into a capital markets context…
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Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, What if we could capture carbon?
There is a big question begged by the ‘stranded assets’ thesis: What if there were no link between burning fossil fuels and emitting greenhouse gases?
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Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, Leaving smaller footprints
Bee-Lin Ang, Jonathan Williams and Martin Steward hear from pension fund investors around the world about why carbon and fossil-fuel risk matters, and how they are addressing it
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Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, A low-risk path to carbon reduction
The low-carbon index approach adopted by AP4, FRR and ERAFP aims to mitigate climate change (and career) risk, writes Liam Kennedy
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Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, How the low-tracking-error green index strategy works
As pioneered by the Swedish pension buffer fund AP4, low-tracking-error green indices work on a remarkably simple principle: weighting the stocks in each sector by carbon intensity (CO2 per unit of sales) and removing the most carbon-intense companies and exposure to stranded asset risk in intensity based on market cap.
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Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, Not a binary choice
Paul Younger draws attention to the irreplaceable role fossil fuels play in many industrial processes, as well as their importance for economic development, to suggest that divestment is not necessarily a responsible course of action
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Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, Two tactics are better than one
As investors come under increasing pressure on fossil fuels, Gordon Noble and Matthew Kiernan urge them to remember that divestment without engagement is as futile as engagement without the threat of divestment
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Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, Accounting for carbon
To avoid putting garbage into the atmosphere, companies need to stop putting garbage into their accounts and investors need to stop putting garbage into their risk models. Elisabeth Jeffries finds a complex web of carbon disclosure protocols making that a big challenge
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Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, Borderless potential
Energy security concerns have pushed international power connectivity up the European agenda. Jonathan Williams finds early pension fund investors attracted by stable cash flows in the low-yield environment
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Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, Yielding results
Green, or climate bonds, are gradually becoming a mainstay in the market. Jonathan Williams assesses who is active in the market, whether it remains dominated by government-backed bonds – and who is assessing the impact of capital raised in this way
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Special Report ESG: Carbon Risk, How green are your govvies?
On the face of it, sovereigns and their debt should be very sensitive to carbon and climate-change risks. Mike Scott finds that uncertainty around data and the lack of a price for carbon is holding back the discounting of those risks
