In the wake of the Paris Agreement, a number of investors have made commitments to align their portfolios to net zero carbon goals. Several methodologies have emerged in the recent years to suppor...
Following last year devasting fires in the Amazon, there has been a growth in actions to halt deforestation among institutional investors, who are becoming increasingly aware of how deforestation...
As ESG investments are becoming mainstream, the market of impact investing is getting increasingly structured. Two recent initiatives have been set up recently to support impact data industrializa...
The Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance (NZAOA) recently issued a call for comment to respond to the urgent need to align carbon neutrality methodologies.
Launched in early 2019, the NZAOA gathers a s...
The sanitary Covid-19 crisis has affected, since its start, all parts of the economy, and financial markets. A response to the Covid-19 crisis is arising from the world of sustainable finance from...
The interest in quantitative indicators capturing biodiversity metrics is growing rapidly among regulators and investors. These indicators can be used to measure the ill estimated environmental im...
New York City Pension Funds go for fossil fuel divestment whereas New York State Common Retirement Fund goes for climate-themed investments: two different but complementary approaches.
On the one...
The aviation industry has been under growing scrutiny from public opinion because of the carbon footprint of its operations which grew globally at an annual rate of 2.8% between 2008 and 2018 acco...
