ESG News

This week in ESG news: Most investors planning to increase sustainable investments this year, Morgan Stanley finds; ECB pledges to ramp focus on climate risk; Climate data platform Watershed raises $100 million at $1.8 billion valuation; Pandora moves to 100% recycled gold and silver; Texas bans Barclays from bond market over ESG policies; WTW study […]

José Luis Martínez is the eighth chair of the research infrastructure forum. Over a two-year stint he has to help these shared facilities navigate challenges such as the energy crisis and at the same time prepare a new roadmap for 2026.

Zum 13. Mal in Folge hat es Schneider Electric in die Corporate Knights Global-100-Liste der nachhaltigsten Unternehmen der Welt sowie in den Dow Jones Sustainability Index geschafft. Das teilt das Unternehmen in einer Pressemeldung mit. Schneider sei im Branchenranking der Technologieunternehmen auf Platz 1 und in der globalen 100-Liste auf Platz 7 aufgeführt. Damit werde […]

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has issued a new research memorandum assessing the exposure of Asia-Pacific (APAC) investment funds to climate-related risks. HKMA analysed funds’ climate risk exposure by using both the historical and forward-looking metrics of companies held in their portfolios. Exposure to climate-related risks were likely to have an impact on wider […]

Calvert Research and Management, part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM), has unveiled three funds categorised as Article 8 under the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation. The MS INVF Calvert Global Equity, Global High-Yield Bond and US Equity funds are actively managed and will incorporate a sustainability-related risks and opportunities assessment into their investment approach.

The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), an industry network, has released its discussion paper on Scope 3 emissions. Scope 3 covers all emissions emerging from a company’s supply chain, including upstream production and downstream customer activity. The paper outlines investor perspectives on the importance and complexity of investee companies’ emissions in the context […]

TwentyFour Asset Management, the fixed income subsidiary of Swiss investment management group Vontobel, has upgraded one of its funds to Article 9 under the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). The group said it had taken a deliberately conservative approach under SFDR guidelines, and that the upgrade stood in contrast to the wave of fund […]

Detrimental business The question of who bears responsibility for causing harm is a matter of attribution in a society that is detrimental to nature and a significant portion of its members. If the system is detrimental in itself, it is not the system that is guilty, but some parts of it, or their interaction. In […]

Ein halbes Jahrhundert wissenschaftlicher Forschung hat gezeigt, dass Unternehmen, die ESG-Grundsätze umsetzen, überwiegend eine bessere Qualität und Finanzkraft aufweisen.

Environment, Social und Governance – etliche Unternehmen müssen jetzt ihre Nachhaltigkeit erfassen. Wir zeigen, wen es betrifft und welche Tools sich lohnen.

Währenddessen verzeichnen auch Artikel-8-Fonds im vierten Quartal die höchsten Mittelabzüge jemals. Das Investoreninteresse nach nachhaltigen Anlageprodukten nimmt weiterhin ab. Artikel-8-Fonds haben im vierten Quartal 2023 die höchsten Mittelabzüge jemals verzeichnet, wie aus aktuellen Daten von Morningstar hervorgeht. Auch Artikel-9-Fonds, welche sich in den vergangenen Monaten weitaus besser schlagen konnten, verzeichneten für das vierte Quartal erstmalig […]