All articles by Sophie Robinson-Tillett – Page 11
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News
Asset owners say climate leadership becoming ‘competitive necessity’ for managers
NZAOA also preparing call to action for General Partners in a bid to encourage private equity managers ‘to start immediately working towards full carbon transparency’
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News
World’s first ‘1.5°C carbon budget benchmarks’ launched
S&P has launched five indices covering developed and emerging markets, all based on mainstream parent indices
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Finance For Biodiversity launches Sustainability-linked Sovereign Debt Hub
While numerous governments have green bond programmes, Chile is the only country to have issued a sustainability-linked bond
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Academics find ‘sweet spot’ for investors seeking to balance ESG scores and returns
Research may prove controversial, given the increasingly popular belief that ESG performance does not require investors to compromise returns
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Opinion Pieces
Heatwaves remind us climate finance is more than net zero
In the middle of the now-famous speech that ended Stuart Kirk’s tenure as HSBC’s head of responsible investment, he said something that got lost. While most of Kirk’s controversial May presentation on ‘why investors need not worry about climate risk’ was picked apart on social media and in the press – resulting in his suspension and exit from the asset manager – his slide on climate adaptation (or ‘adaption’) was largely ignored.