ESG News

Only around one in five of finance executives at large companies believe that they are well prepared to meet upcoming requirements to report and seek external assurance on climate-related risks and opportunities, even as the vast majority anticipate sustainability reporting requirements to increase over the next few years, and as more prepared executives are more […]

„Nachhaltige Fonds sind im Durchschnitt nicht teurer als ihre konventionellen Konkurrenten“, lautet das Ergebnis einer aktuellen Studie von Morningstar Sustainalytics, die die repräsentativen Kosten von ESG-Fonds aus Europa mit denen traditioneller Investmentfonds in sechs der beliebtesten Morningstar-Kategorien vergleicht.

Sustainability platform CO2 AI announced the launch of Product Footprinting, a new AI-powered solution aimed at enabling companies to compute carbon emissions for products and reduce environmental impact. Paris-based CO2 AI provides solutions aimed at helping large and complex organizations to measure impact and identify levers to reduce impact at scale, leveraging artificial intelligence. According […]

Telecommunications company Vodafone’s digital communications solutions unit Vodafone Business announced today the launch of Vodafone Business ESG Navigator, a new software solution aimed at enabling companies to address their sustainability reporting needs, with a particular focus on the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), in collaboration with sustainability reporting software provider Envoria. Founded in 2018, […]

Global integrated risk assessment firm Moody’s and investment data and research provider MSCI announced today the launch of a new strategic partnership, with each company gaining access to each others’ sustainability and business databases to enable the launch of new data-driven ESG investing and sustainable finance solutions. Under the new partnership, Moody’s will use MSCI’s […]

Investment management firm Fidelity International announced that it has revised its sustainable investing framework, launching a new 3-tiered system categorizing funds by their level of ESG integration, citing an evolving ESG client and regulatory landscape. The revised framework comes amidst a series of new regulatory requirements for asset management firms marketing and managing sustainability-focused investment […]

Das Anlageportfolio für Investments mit Nachhaltigkeitsbezug ist in der Schweiz gross. Das aktuelle Angebot an nachhaltigen Fonds deckt die wichtigsten Anlageklassen umfassend ab: Aktien-, Obligationen-, Geldmarkt- und Mischfonds erfüllen die unterschiedlichen Anlagebedürfnisse sehr gut. Im Jahr 2023 zählen wir laut der «IFZ Sustainable Investments Studie 2023» in der Schweiz 2155 nachhaltige Publikumsfonds mit einem investierten […]

Finanzinstitute müssen sich nun aufgrund von regulatorischen Vorgaben mit Nachhaltigkeitsrisiken beschäftigen. Sonja Kardorf erläutert in ihrem Beitrag, wie sich diese erfassen, bewerten und managen lassen und warum sich Unternehmen dringend mit diesem Thema befassen sollten.

Zero-carbon industrial heat solutions provider Rondo Energy announced that it has secured €75 million (USD$80 million) in funding, aimed at expanding its European presence by supporting three industrial decarbonization projects in the food, clean fuel, and chemical production industries. Founded in 2020, California-based Rondo Energy provides solutions to address emissions from industrial heat processes. Industrial […]

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) announced that it has commenced work on the development of a new international standard on net zero, aimed at providing clarity and credibility to organizations’ net zero targets and strategies, and to guard against greenwashing. The process to develop the standard follows the launch in 2022 at the COP27 […]