The UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) has urged the UK government to accelerate its push toward sustainable finance as part of its net zero goals. City Minister and Economic Secretary to the Treasury said, “the transition to sustainable finance is well underway and it is irreversible”.
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The number of shareholder resolutions on diversity at US companies has soared this year in the wake of the Black Lives Matter campaign.
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Released on Earth Day 2021 (22/04/2021), this Minerva Analytics briefing is intended to help investors navigate the oncoming stream of information around biodiversity. Today, economists, governments, regulators, and investors are looking not only at the impact of climate change on investment risk, but also the role of Biodiversity. So what is Biodiversity and what part […]
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Sen Toomey demands answers as SEC says goodbye to Trump-era ESG regulation plans
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Fourty three new asset managers have joined the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative. Signatories managers commit to supporting the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner
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A festival of consultations beckons for the #ESG community
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IFRS Foundation launches sustainability working group New collaboration aims to harmonise sustainability accounting initiatives In a bid to fast forward convergence in global sustainability reporting standards, the trustees of the IFRS Foundation have set up a working group. The group is aimed at structured engagement with initiatives focused on enterprise value reporting, with a view […]
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Trump’s anti-ESG influence is quickly starting to unwind ESG debate moves swiftly forward in the SEC under Biden’s administration A wave of ESG-related changes in the US administration under Joe Biden’s leadership is unfolding this month, marking the beginning of an unwinding of policies set out by his predecessor Donald Trump. While the Trump presidency […]
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More than 450 asset managers and pension funds responded to a consultation on standardised reporting Some of the world’s biggest pension funds and institutional investors are backing the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation’s (IFRS) proposal for standardised sustainability reporting. Last September, the IFRS, which oversees the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), published a consultation paper […]
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