The circular revolution is here even if current headlines do not seem to reflect this, yet. It’s true that less than 10% of the world’s resources are properly circular with nearly every industry deficient when it comes to circular practices. According to analysis from Berenberg, 71% of plastics are mismanaged and landfilled globally, while 30% … Read more
ShareAction is releasing a toolkit in June to help companies report their ethnicity pay gap. In July last year, the NGO embarked on a campaign calling on companies – starting with financial services companies – to begin making disclosures, or to improve the standard of reporting for those already doing so, following a CIPD report … Read more
Caroline Jarvis Gee has joined Evelyn Partners as head of charity business development. Gee has more than 20 years’ experience working with charities and was most recently at EdenTree as charity business development manager and prior to that held roles at James Hambro and Partners and Investec. She is also a member of the board … Read more
The impact of climate change is happening “faster than we thought previously” and finance for both adaptation and mitigation is falling short, according to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). However, it also highlighted many solutions are already available. Today’s synthesis of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report summarised the state … Read more
ESG benchmarks have the “potential for widespread failings”, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has said in a letter to administrator CEOs. Since its letter to benchmark administrators last year, the UK regulator has been conducting a preliminary review on ESG benchmarks, assessing the quality of disclosures offered by a sample of them. It has found … Read more
The impact of climate change is happening “faster than we thought previously” and finance for both adaptation and mitigation is falling short, according to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). However, it also highlighted many solutions are already available. Today’s synthesis of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report summarised the state … Read more
Amanda Sillars, fund manager and ESG director, Jupiter As fund buyers on behalf of investors within the £7bn Jupiter Merlin range of multi-asset portfolios, we believe the likely performance of ESG in a recession will depend largely on the wider interpretation of what ‘ESG’ really means. Funds that exclude entire sectors on ESG grounds – … Read more
ESG Clarity is exploring the decarbonisation targets set by Net Zero Asset Managers’ initiative (NZAM) firms as well as talking to individual fund groups about how they are finding the journey to net zero. See also: – ESG Clarity’s Net Zero Database Here, Shanbor Gupta, principal at Clean Energy Ventures, which invests in scalable early-stage climate tech startups and clean energy technologies addressing … Read more
The US and the EU have reached common ground on the former’s Inflation Reduction Act and the latter’s European Green Deal, Ursula von der Leyen has revealed. In a speech, the European Commission (EC) president lauded the fact that the “two biggest and most advanced economies in the world are now moving in the same … Read more
Malaysia’s stock exchange is set to launch a sustainability reporting platform in April, in conjunction with the London Stock Exchange. The Centralised Sustainability Reporting Platform will enable companies − both publicly listed companies as well as non-listed SMEs − to calculate their carbon emission impact, and disclose common ESG datasets in a standardised manner that … Read more