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  • New York State pension fund targets shale firms amid further coal investment exits

    13 August 2021

    The $255 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund is evaluating whether to restrict investment in 42 shale oil and gas companies, making the announcement alongside its exit from five more coal firms.

  • News round-up: Axa, Macquarie, NY State Retirement Fund, Ambienta

    13 April 2021

  • News Round Up: NY State Retirement Fund, Ambienta

    07 April 2021

  • NY State Pension Fund to divest from 'risky' oil and gas companies

    09 December 2020

    The $226 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund is moving to divest from the 'riskiest' oil and gas companies by 2025 and has committed to full decarbonisation by 2040.

  • CA100+ ups pressure on corporates to align lobbying with Paris Agreement

    26 October 2020

    Institutional investors with a combined $6.5 trillion in AUM have issued "urgent" demands to 47 of the largest US-based corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters to disclose their climate lobbying practices.

  • Investors urge Federal Reserve to tackle climate risk

    23 July 2020

    Investors with nearly $1 trillion in assets under management have signed a letter to US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell demanding action to address climate change as a systemic financial risk.

  • Time is ripe for US asset managers to engage oil majors

    11 May 2020

    Domestic asset managers have been largely absent from climate engagement with US oil majors, but the Church Commissioners for England tells Ahren Lester that this could finally be changing.

  • New York regulator hires first sustainability and climate chief

    05 May 2020

    The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has appointed its first sustainability and climate initiatives director.

  • Winners revealed in Environmental Finance's Bond Awards 2020

    30 March 2020

    Environmental Finance's Bond Awards were expanded again this year to reflect the growth and evolution of the green, social and sustainability (GSS) bond markets and to include the nascent GSS loan market.

  • New York State Common makes $800m climate-themed investments

    14 February 2020

    The New York State Common Retirement Fund has made $800 million in climate-themed investments so far in 2020.