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COP16 Outcome: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The two-week long negotiations of the 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) ended on Saturday...

PRI Springs Into Action on Nature

Tokyo (NordSIP) – On Wednesday 4 October the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) chose the occasion of its annual PRI in Person conference in...

GIIN Forum 2022: Oceans Integral to Nature-Based Investing

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The vital role played by the ocean in sustaining life on earth and mitigating climate change was reemphasised during a dedicated...

Fidelity Joins Fight to Preserve Biodiversity

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Preserving the planet’s biodiversity has been steadily climbing up the priority agenda of many investors in recent years. Hopefully, the movement...

When Politics Stands in the Way of Net-Zero

Stockholm (NordSIP) – On June 21, 2022 the CEOs of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and...

Nature NGOs Sound the Alarm After Nairobi Talks

Stockholm (NordSIP) – As reported in NordSIP last week, the Fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity...

Bonn Climate Conference Highlights North/South Divide

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The two-week long Climate Change Conference organised in Bonn, Germany by the United Nations came to a close last week to...

The Culmination of IPCC’s Scientific Trilogy

On 4 April, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the third instalment of its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).  Whereas the first two working groups examined climate change from the physical science basis and impacts, and adaptation and vulnerability respectively, the contributions of Working Group III are dedicated to the topic of climate change mitigation.

Looking for Portfolio Risk in the Wilderness

Stockholm (NordSIP) – In the first of our series of articles on biodiversity and natural capital, we reminded ourselves of the basic concepts involved...

Biodiversity: the Crisis Hiding in Your Portfolio

Stockholm (NordSIP) – 2022 is expected to be the year investment in nature finally hits the headlines.  Biodiversity loss is a key priority at...

Museum to Help Federated Hermes Protect Biodiversity

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Biodiversity protection is gradually becoming one of the major sustainability themes for 2022. That said, for investors eager to put their...

A Step Closer to Nature-related Financial Disclosures

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has an ambitious aim to support a shift in global financial flows away from...

BlackRock Oil Emails – Think Before You Send

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Nordsip has been keeping an ESG-focused eye on BlackRock for some time, especially since CEO Larry Fink last year publicly encouraged...

Where Biodiversity Protection and Decarbonization Meet

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Most of us are aware that climate change affects the variety of life on Earth at all its levels. The impact...

Is H&M Using COVID-19 to Exploit Workers?

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Given the havoc wreaked by COVID-19 on everyone's life, it is often difficult to look beyond our immediate concerns. When a...

European Commission Takes Over Social Bonds Market

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On Tuesday, October 20th, the European Union launched its inaugural €17 billion dual-tranche social bond due in 2030 and 2040. The...

AP7 Pushes Google to Address Sexual Harassment

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At the end of 2018, reports emerged with evidence of Google shielding top executives accused of sexual harassment. For the company...

Is ESG Detrimental to Labour?

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Over the last week, a discussion has been raging over the nature of ESG investments. Following the publication of a research...

Arabesque S-Ray Hires top Executives

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On January 6th, Arabesque S-Ray, a provider of ESG data, announced the hiring of Dr Manuel Piñuela as Chief Technology Officer...

FTSE Russel Expands Asian ESG Rating Coverage

Stockholm (NordSIP) -  FTSE Russell announced it had expanded the coverage of its Asian-Pacific ESG ratings to a total of 4,300 securities. This headline...

Sustainable Fund to Track New Polish WIG-ESG Index

Stockholm (NordSIP) - NN Investment Partners will launch a new ESG index fund investing in Polish blue-chip stocks included in the WIG-ESG index. The...

The Greatest Financial Engineering Challenge of our Generation

Stockholm (NordSIP) – “We, as institutional investors, have violated the first principle of finance,” warned Sony Kapoor (Pictured), Director of Re-Define, at a recent...

EU Releases Climate-Related Reporting Guidelines and TEG Reports

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On Tuesday, June 8, the European Commission published guidelines on how companies should report climate-related facts. The EU's executive also welcomed...

IRRI Survey – Nordic Sneak Peek

Stockholm (NordSIP) –SRI-Connect, the online research network for sustainable investment and corporate governance, published its Independent Research in Responsible Investment (IRRI) 2019 survey results...

Serious Governance and Regulatory Risks in Asia

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At a lunch event hosted by East Capital, Jamie Allen (pictured, right), Secretary General, and Nana Li (pictured, centre), Senior Research...

New Funds Fuel Sustainable Inflows in First Quarter

Stockholm (NordSIP) - According to a report by Impact Investing, Sustainable Funds received US$26 billion of net inflows in the first quarter of 2019,...

UBS Launches New ESG ETF

Stockholm (NordSIP) - UBS Asset Management (UBS AM) announced it would launch the first ETF to integrate sustainability screening into the S&P 500 Index,...

S&P Unveils ESG Version of S&P 500 Index

Stockholm (NordSIP) - S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI), unveiled its new S&P 500® ESG Index, on Monday, April 8th, according to a press...

Storebrand Lands in Denmark

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Storebrand announced the Danish launch of its leading sustainable investment solutions with the introduction of five equity funds. Skagen will distribute...

GES Teams with UNICEF on Children’s Rights Investor Guidance

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Responsible investment advisory service GES has teamed up with UNICEF to develop an Investor Guidance for Children’s Rights Integration that they...

Amundi Adopts Full ESG Integration Plan

Stockholm (NordSIP) – French asset manager Amundi has adopted a three-year action plan that aims to integrate ESG analysis across all its funds and...

Sweden Election: A Setback on Climate Politics?

Stockholm (NordSIP) – With one threat partly defused but another potentially looming, Sweden’s general election Sunday (September 9) left the country deadlocked between the...

Norway SWF Sets Ocean, Sustainability Expectations

Stockholm (NordSIP) Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund wants the companies it invests in to follow increasingly rigorous regulation on sustainability and particularly ocean plastic pollution,...

NBIM ups RI Game

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Norges Bank, manager of the $1 trillion Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, has divested from six companies and excluded 11 new companies...

DK Pension Manager Invests in Biogas

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Sampension, manager of pension schemes for employees of the Danish government and its municipalities, has become a central investor in Nature...

Institutional Investors Turning to ESG, Survey Finds

Stockholm (NordSIP) – A new White Paper from Natixis Investment Managers on Institutional Investors published today (February 27th) has found that institutional investors are...

Gender Balance & Sustainable Investing: A Journey

Stockholm (NordSIP) - This week, NordSIP had the privilege of catching up with Barbara Krumsiek, board member at Arabesque, and ex-CEO of one of...

A new Take on Fiduciary Duty

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In the context of the publication of the High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) on Sustainable Finance's final report, Magnus Billing, CEO at...

HLEG Publishes Final Recommendations

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (HLEG) published its final report Wednesday (January 31). Financing a Sustainable European Economy makes...

Solactive, Deutsche Launch European Sustainability Index

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Deutsche Bank has partnered with Frankfurt-based index provider Solactive to launch Solactive Sustainability Index Europe, an index specifically designed to track...

Petraeus: Successful Investment Depends on ESG

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In the UBS White Paper prepared for the World Economic Forum annual meeting 2018: Partnerships for the Goals – Achieving the...

ESG Trends to Watch in 2018

MSCI Head of ESG Research Linda-Eling Lee outlines the top five ESG trends to watch for 2018 in a blog post summarising a new...

Swedish Public Report: “To Promote Green Bonds”

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Statens Offtentliga Utredningar (SOU), the Swedish state public reports agency from committees appointed and convened by the Government of Sweden for...

Higher Scrutiny and Private Investments for Norway’s SWF

Stockholm (NordSIP) - This week, Norway's $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund sought permission from the finance ministry to invest in unlisted companies. In parallel,...

Finnish Forestry’s Green Returns

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - In the Nordics, forest ownership has been close to the people for centuries. As a matter of fact, a large majority...

Report: Financial Effects of ESG Integration

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Foundations of ESG Investing: How ESG Affects Equity Valuation, Risk and Performance (Part 1), a new report from MSCI, the provider...

Global Green Finance Index to Launch in 2018

Stockholm (NordSIP) – A Global Green Finance Index (GGFI) designed to encourage and develop financial services and centres to become greener will be published...

PRI finds Investment Consultants Lag on ESG

Stockholm (NordSIP) The UN Principles for Responsible Investment has published a new report, Working towards a sustainable financial system: investment consultant services review, which...

The Pressure is on for Greenhouse Gas Emitters

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On the second anniversary of the 2015 Paris Accord, 225 of the largest global investors with over $26.3 trillion in AUM...

“One Planet”: Promises and Perils

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The “One Planet” Summit held this week in Paris at the behest of France’s President Emmanuel Macron as a follow-up to...

AP Funds Make Top 25 List

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Sweden’s AP Funds have been selected to the Bretton Woods II list of the 25 most responsible asset allocators in the...

Iceland Welcomes Brand New SIF

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Iceland SIF, the Iceland Sustainable Investment Forum, is nearing an official announcement following its establishment on November 13. Samtök um ábyrgar...

Green Indices Sprout Again

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Sustainable indices has become a stepping stone for many portfolio managers aiming to integrate sustainable investment practices. Last week, NordSIP has...

Norway’s SWF at work to curb excessive pay

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), the manager of Norway’s €829 billion Sovereign Wealth Fund - which has been under criticism for...

Swedes Keen on Greenfield Infrastructure

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On 15 November, UK-based Infracapital announced the closing of its new greenfield infrastructure fund at £1.25 billion (€1.4 billion), with the...

Low-Carbon Indices 101

Low-carbon indices are becoming a fixture on the investment landscape, as the intensifying drive to address climate change compels investors to address risks entailed...

Storebrand Throws Gauntlet to Coal Investors

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Yesterday, November 16, Storebrand announced ten new exclusions from its $80 bilion assets under management. The largest private pension provider in...

Lyxor AM launches Equileap-tracked Gender Equality ETF

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Lyxor Asset Management Group, the Société Générale-owned European asset management specialist with €126.2bn in AUM, has launched an exchange-traded fund (ETF)...

New Framework for Green Bonds in Forestry

  Stockholm (NordSIP) - Sveaskog, Sweden's largest forest owner, has just issued its second green bond of a total of SEK 1 billion. For the...

The Next Step in Low-Carbon Investing

Stockholm (NordSIP) – During a recent visit to Stockholm, Meryam Omi, Head of Sustainability and Responsible Investment Strategy at Legal & General, met with...

What’s in a Name? A Roundtable Discussion

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Moderated by NordSIP Editor-in-Chief Aline Reichenberg Gustafsson, the October 24th Northern Trust lunch seminar roundtable on Global Trends in ESG opened...

Nobel Foundation in bind over investment conflict

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The steady trickle of news concerning the Nobel Foundation’s potentially unethical investments is threatening to snowball into a major embarrassment for...

NIB Backs Lending to SMEs for Environment, Growth

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) has agreed with Norway’s Sparebank 1 Østlandet to launch a NOK750mn (€80mn) loan programme to finance...

DK Pension Funds flout UN Global Compact on Tobacco

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Despite the total delisting and exclusion of the tobacco industry from the United Nations Global Compact, mandated in September following recommendations...

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