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Investors round on Rio Tinto's funding of fossil fuel lobby groups
27 April 2018Rio Tinto will face mounting pressure at its annual general meeting (AGM) as investors with a combined £1.8 trillion ($2.5 trillion) take aim at its policy on funding lobby groups that obstruct action to combat climate change.
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Belgium plans to grow sovereign green bond to €10bn
28 February 2018A €4.5 billion ($5.5 billion) sovereign green bond issued by Belgium this week is expected to grow to a size of about €10 billion within four years, the Belgian Debt Agency said.
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'Best-in-class' sustainability index planned for Europe
28 November 2017A 30-stock European index of 'best-in-class' sustainability performers is due to be launched on 1 December.
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Investors support plea for integrated corporate reporting
27 September 2017A group of leading investors, with nearly $2 trillion in assets under management, is calling for companies to integrate their reporting of financial and non-financial data.
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'Bring it on': California commissioner bullish on fossil fuel divestment
17 July 2017Commissioner Dave Jones was threatened with legal action from 12 Republican attorney generals who oppose his fossil fuel investments disclosure initiative. The threats appear to have spurred Jones on, however. Callum Tanner reports
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Insurers are bystanders on climate change risk management
19 June 2017Insurers are largely bystanders when it comes to managing climate change risk in their investment portfolios, according to the latest survey by the Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP).
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Zurich's CIO explains the importance of ESG
08 May 2017Urban Angehrn oversees Zurich Insurance Group's $190 billion asset book. With no pure asset management business in the group, he talks to Asa Gibson about how responsible investment fits in with its asset management selection process.
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Exxon board fights climate resolution
25 April 2017ExxonMobil's board has refused to support a climate change resolution backed by investors with over $10 trillion in assets under management (AUM).
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Shareholder engagement spurs AB InBev to commit to 100% renewables
29 March 2017Anheuser-Busch (AB) InBev, the world's largest brewer, has signed up to the RE100 initiative, following extensive shareholder engagement.
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Investing in a changing climate
06 December 2016Insurers are increasingly factoring climate change into their investment decisions. But they are only at the start of a long learning process, finds Peter Cripps. This is the second part of a three-part series on how insurers are dealing with climate change