Elena K. Johansson

Articles by Elena K. Johansson

  • Investors must step up climate risk engagement, says Australian NGO

    18 February 2019

    Investors are being urged "to drastically increase the ambition and impact of their corporate engagement programmes" in Australia as regulators "have taken no action to enforce corporate disclosure laws when it comes to climate risk".

  • First Japanese fund launched for overseas offshore wind

    18 February 2019

    Sumitomo Corporation, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), and the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) have launched what they claim is Japan's first renewable energy fund to invest in overseas offshore wind projects.

  • CalSTRS supports activist hedge fund with $250 million

    15 February 2019

    The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) has backed a newly launched activist investment management firm, with $250 million in funding.

  • EU’s TEG reveals how taxonomy will work in practice

    15 February 2019

    Members of the EU’s Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (TEG) have revealed how its taxonomy will work in practice.

  • People Moves: Natixis, Wells Fargo Asset Management, Schroders, PIMCO, Truvalue Labs, MSCI, SASB, Boston Trust and Walden, ANZ and Swiss Association for Responsible Investment

    15 February 2019

    Harald Walkate has been appointed as Natixis Investment Managers' first head of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and ESG.

  • Oil & gas companies 'jeopardise shareholder returns by rewarding executives for chasing growth'

    14 February 2019

    Shareholder returns are at risk from remuneration schemes that incentivise executives at oil and gas companies to chase volume growth, a report argues.

  • European investors 'oversleep watershed moment formed by Shareholder Directive', finds survey

    13 February 2019

    European investors are poorly informed and unprepared for the "watershed moment" the new Shareholder Directive creates, a survey has found.

  • Southeast Asian banks targeted in BMO's 2019 engagement plan

    12 February 2019

    BMO will target Southeast Asian banks for its engagements in 2019, in a move that sees a bigger role for the finance sector in combatting climate change.

  • Japan's regulator engages financial players on climate risk

    12 February 2019

    Japan's Financial Services Agency is stepping up its focus on climate risk and is increasingly engaging with firms on the issue. Hiroshi Ota and Satoshi Ikeda explain why to Elena K. Johansson

  • Align with low-carbon transition to avoid 'negative credit consequences', S&P's Trucost warns big emitters

    11 February 2019

    Companies in high-emitting sectors can take action to align themselves with the low-carbon transition to avoid 'negative credit consequences', S&P's Trucost said.