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Manulife meets three nature targets early
23 August 2024Manulife Investment Management, which claims to be the world's largest natural asset investor, has released its first annual nature report, revealing that it has met three of the five targets it had set for 2025.
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The long road to reasonable assurance
22 May 2024Sustainability data is set to move along the assurance curve, from limited to reasonable, boosted by regulation and technology. Genevieve Redgrave reports
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Investors urge Asian governments to develop policies for coal phaseout
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Cambodian telecoms firm raises $20m from ground-breaking sustainability bond
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Natural Capital Investment Americas 2023: Investor hopes the SBTi will 'endorse' carbon credits
02 October 2023An Environmental Finance conference has heard hopes from market participants that the Science-based Targets Initiative (SBTi) will "endorse" the use of carbon credits as part of net zero targets.
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Voluntary carbon market craving for clarity, Manulife IM says
25 September 2023Investors are increasingly looking "under the hood" of voluntary carbon market (VCM) investment opportunities to understand the underlying projects they are investing, according to Eric Cooperström, managing director for impact investing and natural climate solutions at Manulife Investment Management.
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Manulife: Green bonds 'imperilled' by net zero target setting
07 July 2023Canadian insurer and asset manager Manulife is concerned that the "blunt tool" of assessing alignment with net-zero targets for investment portfolio construction could "imperil" the future success of the green bond market.
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Manulife pilots natural capital accounting framework
29 June 2023Manulife Investment Management is piloting a method of measuring the value of nature for its timber and agriculture assets, in preparation for applying it to "the entire portfolio", an executive has said.
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Market-wide stewardship driving sustainable outcomes
03 May 2023Manulife Investment Management's Peter Mennie and Brian Kernohan have identified five ways in which the asset manager can exert its investment stewardship to help address systematic issues
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Manulife: Biodiversity is biggest opportunity for private markets
16 February 2023Biodiversity is "arguably the biggest opportunity for private markets", and will expand beyond timberland to other types of investments including in the technology sector, an executive at Manulife has said.