ESG ‘Greenwashing’ represents a real and growing threat in the sustainable investment arena, and as such asset owners should be on their guard against it, according to Julia Dreblow of SRI Services.
‘Greenwashing’ is where asset managers (or …
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Industrial companies largely ignoring climate risks
The world’s largest industrial companies have been warned they have been “too slow” in curbing their carbon emissions.
The warning comes as a major report reveals less than a fifth of these high-emitting corporations …
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Investors up in arms over SEC climate proposals
SEC chairman Jay Clayton has again come under fire for failing to go far enough on climate disclosures, as the regulator pushes to give company bosses yet more control over the information …
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UK reporting watchdog issues diversity warning
The majority of the UK’s leading companies are failing to act on boardroom ethnic diversity, a major report by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) reveals.
The report, which reveals most of the FTSE 350 …
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Whilst asset owners’ approach to ESG has been slowly shaped by regulatory and best practice influences over time, we have now reached the point that inaction on the topic is no longer possible, according to Sarah Wilson, Minerva’s Chief Executive…
Read MoreMore than a fifth of FTSE 350 companies faced significant shareholder dissent in the 2019 AGM season – with executive pay and directors’ elections topping the list of investor discord.
The shocking findings, from data gathered by the Minerva Analytics …
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The Church of England’s three National Investing Bodies (NIBs) have become the latest investors to join the UN’s Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance – taking the alliance’s total assets under management to more than $4.3 trillion.
In joining the coalition, …
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Companies commit to standardised ESG data reporting
More than 140 of the world’s largest companies are set to sign up to new set of non-financial reporting disclosures, which will chart their performance on ESG metrics such as greenhouse gas emissions, …
Read MoreThe UK’s foremost standards body, the BSI, has released what it labels a “pioneering” framework to help organisations embed the principles of sustainable finance into their business processes.
The framework, or so-called Publicly Available Specifications (PAS), is launched in collaboration …
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Asset owners must drive the fundamental changes needed to fight climate change in the next five to 10 years before time runs out, a $4 trillion investor alliance has warned.
The warning, made at the World Economic Forum event in …
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