SDGs

UK financial inclusion pioneer Big Issue behind launch

Capital has not shifted at anywhere near the speed and scale needed, but there is still time if investors act now, says Christiana Figueres

The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) celebrate their fifth anniversary this month – so, what have we learned? A great deal, but with much still to do, says Robeco’s SDG Strategist, Jan Anton van Zanten.

Kirsty Jenkinson explains how the US pension giant deals with everything from data and engagement to asset allocation and private markets

The five things investors should do to support SDG 13, according to Jan Erik Saugestad, CEO of Storebrand Asset Management

The SDGs are 17 objectives for improving human society and ecological sustainability adopted by the United Nations in 2015. They cover a broad spectrum of sustainability topics, ranging from eliminating hunger and combating climate change to promoting responsible consumption and making cities more sustainable.The economic activities of companies can both positively and negatively impact any one of the 17 SDGs and their 169 targets. Investors including Robeco have developed strategies that target those companies that can make a net contribution, depending on their business activities.But how do individual economic activities ranging from manufacturing consumer goods to providing financial services make a difference? This was studied in a research paper by Jan Anton van Zanten, SDG Strategist with Robeco’s SI Center of Expertise, and Rob van Tulder, Professor of International Business and Society Management at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.

The latest developments for investing and the circular economy

Tackling food waste not only addresses SDG12, it can help us achieve Climate Action too, argues Carina Millstone. But biogas is proving a distraction.

If the Goals are the roadmap to global transformation, and we are the drivers, then the vehicle that will get us there – our economy – is in drastic need of an overhaul, argues Michiel de Smet

岸上有沙氏による2020年ESGニュースアップデートシリーズ。