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Take Five: Ready to Engage

Chris Hall

Proposals to bolster sustainable finance in Europe include recommendations for a new region-wide stewardship code. At this rate, 582 million will be chronically undernourished by 2030, meaning no progress will have been achieved since the SDGs were first established in 2015.

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Take Five: Policy and Power

Chris Hall

Story time – The halfway point of the calendar year brings forth a stream of impact and sustainability reports from asset managers and owners, particularly in the UK, as signatories also comply with their obligations under the Stewardship Code. Sounds familiar? That’s because it is.

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An Increasing Sense of Urgency

Chris Hall

The pace has quickened further in 2022 in response to then Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s April 2021 announcement that by 2030 the country’s emissions would reduce by 46% relative to 2013 levels. Such high levels volumes in the ESG investment space partly reflect the lead taken by the country’s policymakers and financial regulators.