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...
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Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance first step towards fulfilling its commitment
30 Apr 2020
Solène Rieunier
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...
Investors’ actions and appetite for social bonds in response to Covid-19
08 Apr 2020
Thomas Girard, Solène Rieunier
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 and New York State start acting on their climate related policies: exclusion vs thematic investing
02 Mar 2020
Dominique Blanc
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...
Aviation’s climate footprint, investors' wake-up call to action
26 Feb 2020
Dominique Blanc, Francis Effiong
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...
