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Take Five: Europe’s Green Brigade Takes Shape 

Chris Hall

Sustainable investment opportunities and risks are slowly beginning to emerge as Europe outlines its plans to rearm. But some called for a more fundamental reboot of investment in European innovation especially in clean technologies to pursue trajectories that are compatible with its climate transition targets.

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2023 Moskowitz Prize Awarded To Research Measuring Financial Impact of Biodiversity Loss — Plus Honorable Mention Studies

3BL Media

The three papers recognized this year study three very different topics, but each represents an exemplary effort to deepen our understanding of sustainable investment,” says Lloyd Kurtz , founder of the Moskowitz Prize and again one of the judges this year.

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Show Your Working

Chris Hall

Difficulties in definition continue to thwart efforts to demonstrate the financial benefits of sustainable investments. Sustainable fund flows attracted US$37 billion of net new money in Q4 2022, with global sustainable fund assets reaching a total of US$2.5

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This Week’s People Moves: ISSB Completes Board with Vice-Chair Hua

Chris Hall

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including ISSB, Calvert, GLP Europe, Metzler AM, and KGAL. . Former World Bank Vice President Jingdong Hua has been appointed as Vice-Chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). Oppenheim Jr. &

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A Realist’s Guide to Investing for Good

Stanford Social Innovation

In fact, almost 85 percent of individual investors say they are interested in sustainable investing and more than three quarters believe they can use their investments to influence the extent of climate change. Since their onset in 2019, a related instrument, sustainability linked bonds have surged as a source of financing.

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A Fair Day’s Wage for a Fair Day’s Work

Chris Hall

Another option is to promote transparency so that investors have visibility of an investee company’s difference in pay between executives and the workforce, which will then hopefully inspire effective engagement on the topic. In 2019, the UK introduced new rules which require listed companies with over 250 employees to publicly disclose their pay (..)

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Take Five: Greenhushing is Over

Chris Hall

Sensing the mood of change, multilateral development banks (MDBs) pointed out that they doubled their climate finance supply between 2019 and 2023 to US$125 billion – achieving much the same increase in the volume of private finance mobilised since 2022. But a new academic study said they were still underperforming their potential.