Alternative asset and private equity investor KKR announced today an agreement to acquire UK-based asset leasing business, with the transaction aimed at supporting the company’s growth and its strategy to help businesses transition their fleets to net zero.
Laut einer von Fidelity International in Auftrag gegebenen Umfrage erachtet die Mehrheit der Investoren ESG-Faktoren bei der Asset Allocation nach wie vor als sehr wichtig an. Schwierigkeit bestehen jedoch bei der Messung von Impact-Investments.
The government of Germany is pushing for significant changes to the implementation timeline and reporting requirements of the European Commission’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), including pushing back sustainability reporting obligations for smaller companies by 2 years, and eliminating sector-specific reporting requirements.
In a highly anticipated move, newly inaugurated President Donald Trump confirmed plans to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, as part of a new policy described by the White House as aimed at “ending Biden’s policies of climate extremism.”
The U.S. Federal Reserve announced on Friday that it has withdraw from the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), a global coalition of central banks aimed at working together on climate and green finance issues.
A group of major European companies, investors and industry associations published a letter to European Commission leaders, expressing concerns that the upcoming “Omnibus” package combining the EU’s key new sustainability reporting and due diligence laws could end up weakening the new rules, undermining business certainty and investment.
This week in ESG news: Net zero investor coalition hits pause after BlackRock exit; Amazon invests $1 billion to decarbonize its delivery network; Apollo, StanChart team up to finance energy transition infrastructure; IKEA to invest $1 billion in circular economy companies; Mars’ new Chief Sustainability Officer; McDonald’s ends DEI goal setting; New York invests $1 […]
Kurse nachhaltiger Investments haben sich zuletzt schwach entwickelt. Doch unter den aktiv gemanagten ESG-Fonds finden sich auch Angebote, die den Index schlagen. Worauf Anleger achten sollten.
Die Erfolgsgeschichte basiert auf einem einfachen aber überzeugenden Investmentansatz: Der Fonds investiert in Unternehmen entlang der gesamten Wasser-Wertschöpfungskette – von der Infrastruktur über Technologie bis hin zu Umweltdienstleistungen. Ein Konzept, das sich als weitsichtig erwiesen hat.
The graphic above, by Rosey Eason, using OECD data (via Our World in Data), paints a clear picture of the situation. Here’s a global overview of how plastic waste is disposed of:
I. Omnibus-Verordnung zur Vereinheitlichung von ESG-Berichtsplfichten und Revision der SFDR-Offenlegungspflichten.
Global asset manager Algebris Investments announced today the launch of Algebris Climatech, a new fund aimed at investing in climate and deep tech startups across the energy, materials, industrials, and food sectors.
Die Planungs- und Beratungsgesellschaft CANZLER, ein Unternehmen der SOCOTEC Gruppe, ist gemäß Vergabeverordnung von der Stadt Göttingen beauftragt worden, einen Neubau und die Sanierung der Bestandsgebäude an der Geschwister-Scholl-Gesamtschule (G-S-G) zu planen. Beim Holzhybridneubau gilt es, die Technik so in die Architektur zu integrieren, dass diese nicht sichtbar ist und die Ästhetik nicht stört. Bei […]
The initiative includes a €500 million EIB counter-guarantee that Societe Generale will use to create a portfolio of bank guarantees of up to €1 billion to back new wind farm projects across the European Union, as well as their supply chain and power grid connections, with a leverage effect anticipated to mobilize additional funding from […]
Clean fuel tech startup Amogy announced that it raised $56 million in venture financing for solutions aimed at decarbonizing transportation, heavy industry and other sectors.
