This report has been prepared in order to assist companies concerned to disclose non-financial information in a relevant, useful, consistent and more comparable manner.
Read the Annual Impact Report to see how projects and companies financed by our Impact Financing strategy in 2018 are making a positive contribution across a range of environmental and social issues. Learn how these investments and impact themes align with the UN SDGs, and how investors’ capital can contribute to building a fairer and more sustainable economy
An analysis of the draft EU Ecolabel criteria for financial products.
The Draft Ecolabel focuses exclusively on environmental themed funds, which represent about 0.1% of today’s market. Based on the Draft Criteria, the Ecolabel eligible investment universe is composed of about 200 listed companies with environment-related activities, representing 1% of the global universe. Thus, the Ecolabel’s strategy appears to be to inflate this micro-niche artificially to a 10-20% market share by promoting environmental themed funds to the 60-70% of retail clients interested in the environmental impact of their investment products.
Climate change is one of the biggest and most daunting challenges facing the world.
These points will be discussed in greater detail in this document. Despite much positive work done already, we know this is a journey. It will take ongoing effort and resources dedicated to climate change, and a willingness and flexibility to evolve our approach over time.
As global environmental and social issues have become more complex and severe globally in recent years, it is imperative for the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) as a “universal owner” to increase the long-term portfolio value as well as to improve overall financial market sustainability through the minimization of the negative externalities of these problems.
Looking at the current state of ESG information disclosure by Japanese listed companies, they could be roughly divided into two categories; the one is a group of companies that actively engage in disclosure and the other is a group that have not made substantive progress.
Are the world’s asset owners thinking about long-term sustainable finance?
UBS Asset Management are delighted to have partnered with Responsible Investor to create a unique new survey which investigates, in detail, the extent to which asset owners are integrating ESG into their investment processes.
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Responsible Investment Report produced by Insight Investment.
Presentation of the exclusive results of the Asia portion of the RI/UBS pension fund survey by Banu Tuyakbayeva, Researcher, Responsible Investor.
Some of the world’s biggest banks are routinely hiding behind client confidentiality to conceal investments in companies and projects that infringe human and environmental rights, the first study of its kind reveals today.
BankTrack, which campaigns to hold commercial banks accountable, publishes analysis of five years of correspondence with 31 major international banks regarding problematic projects they finance. It finds that in nearly half of all responses (70 of 150), banks said they could not comment on whether they had a relationship with a particular customer or project. Half of those responses cited client confidentiality as the reason.
Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history — and the rate of species extinctions is accelerating, with grave impacts on people around the world now likely, warns a landmark new report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the summary of which was approved at the 7th session of the IPBES Plenary, meeting last week (29 April – 4 May) in Paris.
“The overwhelming evidence of the IPBES Global Assessment, from a wide range of different fields of knowledge, presents an ominous picture,” said IPBES Chair, Sir Robert Watson. “The health of ecosystems on which we and all other species depend is deteriorating more rapidly than ever. We are eroding the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods, food security, health and quality of life worldwide.”