Archive

  • UK finance sector gets new advice on climate-related risks

    30 June 2020

  • NatWest creates new ESG framework

    10 July 2019

    NatWest Markets (NWM) has established a new environmental, social and governance (ESG) framework to facilitate investments from corporate and institutional investors into a high ESG portfolio.

  • Barclays' energy policy backs tar sand projects with 'big money', say campaigners

    16 January 2019

    Barclays' revised energy policy has been criticised by environmental pressure groups as underwhelming in ambition, as it provides "big money" for tar sand projects.

  • ERM snaps up SustainAbility as industry consolidation continues

    14 January 2019

    Environmental Resources Management (ERM), a specialist consultancy with 160 offices worldwide, has acquired SustainAbility, the pioneering think tank and advisory firm set up by John Elkington and Julia Hailes in 1987.

  • People moves: IOSCO, London Stock Exchange Group, Simmons & Simmons, UBS

    19 October 2018

    Peter Damgaard Jensen has been appointed as co-organizer of the newly founded Global Commission on Adaptation. Damgaard Jensen also acts as CEO of Danish pension scheme PKA and chair of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), an investor association taking action to support a low-carbon future.

  • Private sector lagging on climate disclosure, report claims

    17 August 2018

    Private sector asset owners tend to be less prepared than their public sector counterparts to make voluntary public statements and disclosures related to climate change, a report has claimed.

  • ‘Worryingly complacent’ UK pension funds neglect climate risk

    25 May 2018

    Some of the largest pension funds in the UK are ‘worryingly complacent’ about the risks posed by climate change to investments, according to the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC).

  • People moves: Legal & General Capital, Vigeo Eiris, Lekela and NIB

    16 March 2018

    Legal & General Capital (LGC) has recruited former RBS group treasurer John Cummins as its managing director of urban regeneration and clean energy.

  • Comment: Can 'fintech' help 'green' the real economy?

    10 March 2017

    Innovation in financial technology should aim to address sustainability challenges in the real economy, says Andrew Voysey

  • GIB to make first offshore wind exit

    21 December 2016

    The UK's Green Investment Bank is expected to announce its first exit of an offshore wind project in coming days.