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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...

Finance World Urges Plastics Action

Stockholm (NordSIP) – As the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution (INC-4) begins...

Waking up to Biodiversity

Stockholm (NordSIP) – ‘Strategy for Breakfast’ might be a bite too much to accompany your first cup of coffee, but the theme of the dialogue...

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...

Nature Reporting Takes Off

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) chose this year’s New York Climate Week to launch its long awaited final recommendations. ...

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...

Taking the Plunge into Nature Positive Investing

In this Simply Said series on biodiversity, we have sought to identify the scale and significance of the problem, understand nature-related risks in investors’...

Biodiversity Dashboard – A Look at the Metrics

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Vague claims to be “nature friendly” have long been popular in the consumer goods sector.  As the public starts to get...
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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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

IKEA Steps Up Supply-Chain CSR, Launches EV Drive

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following an incident several months ago in which a Dutch freight service, Brinkman Trans-Holland, subcontracted to Ikea was caught underpaying foreign...

Folksam Presents $350m Green Bond Investment at UNGA

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Swedish insurance company The Folksam Group presented its acquisition of green bonds to the tune of USD 350mn issued by the...

SPP/Storebrand Signs Green Bond Principles

Stockholm (NordSIP) - SPP/Storebrand, the Swedish Insurance and Pensions giant, has signed the Green Bond Principles (GBP) guidelines, a voluntary agreement recommending transparency and...

Green Investments to be Validated by blockchain

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At the occasion of the High-Level Expert Group meeting on Sustainable Finance today (30 August), the non-for-profit independent platform Stockholm Green...

Humlegården Green Bond Listed on Stockholm Nasdaq

Stockholm (NordSIP) Humlegården Fastigheter AB CEO Anneli Jansson rang in the bell at the Stockholm Nasdaq this morning (August 23) to mark the listing...

SEB Reporting On Equity Fund CO2 Emissions

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) has begun reporting on the carbon footprint of its equity funds. The Swedish Investment Fund Association has been...

UNEP: Great G-20 Progress on Green Finance in 2016 Alone

Stockholm (NordSIP) – According to new research released from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) (July 14), the G-20 together with other nations have made...

Swedfund Invests $10m in Asia Renewable Energy Fund

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Swedfund, the Swedish development financier providing funding, expertise and support for investments in emerging markets, has invested $10 million in Berkeley...

Swedish Fund Index: Sustainable Investment On The Rise

Stockholm (NordSIP) - 100% of fund expert participants to the eleventh edition of the Swedish Fund Index (SFEI) expect sustainable investments to become still...

EU Commission Sustainable Finance Group Publishes 1st Report

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (HLEG) established by the European Commission in late 2016 has published its first...

Apple Launches Renewable Energy Data Centre in DK

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Apple has announced a DKK 6 billion ($921 million) investment in cloud storage data centre to be powered by renewable energy...

Swedfund Invests in Nagpur Green Transportation Initiative

Stockholm (NordSIP) Together with automotive industry manufacturer Scania and a local Indian partner, Swedfund, the state-owned Swedish development financier providing funding, expertise and support...

Amid Progress, Hurdles To ESG Integration

Stockholm (NordSIP) - For all the buzz and enthusiasm about the strides made in ESG implementation and its emergence as a seemingly insuperable industry...

“Nordic Solutions” To Match SDG Targets

Stockholm (NordSIP) “Nordic Solutions to Global Challenges”, the initiative launched last month by the leaders of the five Nordic countries at a meeting of...

Women, Millennials Transforming RI Focus– Calvert

Stockholm (NordSIP) - “Both millennial and female advisors anticipate an increase in responsible investing engagement with their clients.” So says Anthony Eames, Vice President...

LuxFLAG Adds Green Bond Label

Stockholm (NordSIP) - LuxFLAG, the Luxembourg Finance Labelling Agency, has added a Green Bond label with funds investing in green bonds (instruments employed to...

AP7 Divests From Alleged Paris Accord Violators

Stockholm (NordSIP) – AP7, the largest pension fund in Sweden providing pensions to 3.5 million Swedish citizens, announced last week it is divesting itself...

Vasakronan To Receive €200m for Green Buildings from EIB

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Vasakronan, the Swedish real estate company, is slated to receive EUR 200 million from the European Investment Bank (EIB) for the...

Nordics Top Global Cleantech Innovation Index

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The Global Cleantech Innovation Index (GCII), which is published by the Cleantech Group, has named Denmark, Finland and Sweden as the...

La Française on a mission in Stockholm

Stockholm (NordSip) – Laurent Jacquier-Laforge, Chief Investment Officer Equity at the French asset manager La Française met with NORDSip in Stockholm to talk about...

AP2 Invests USD 50m in TPG’s Rise Fund

Stockholm (NordSIP) AP2, Sweden’s Second AP pension fund with SEK 300 billion in AUM, has invested USD 50 million in The Rise Fund, a...

ESG Investing to Confront Climate Change

Nearly 200 nations agreed in Paris in 2015 to take steps to limit the increase of the global average temperature to no more than...

SPP Fossil-Free Funds Raise SEK 10b

Stockholm (NordSIP) Swedish Insurance and Pension company SPP has attracted close to SEK 10 billion since the launch one year ago of its PLUS...

Saving the Environment and Improving Your Portfolio with Real Estate

Buildings account for about a third of total carbon emissions globally. This presents a real opportunity for investors who seek to maintain a diversified...

Denmark Invests In Kenya Local SDG Projects

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Denmark has committed an investment of KSh 15 billion (roughly USD 145 million) to the Kenyan market, with half of the...

Trump Delays Paris Decision Following Investor G7 Appeal

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The administration of U.S. president Donald Trump has delayed a much-anticipated decision on whether to withdraw from the 2015 Paris accord,...

Nordic Development Fund Approves AFRI-RES Climate Funding

Stockholm (NordSIP) The Nordic Development Fund (NDF), the joint multilateral development finance institution comprising Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden which adheres to and...

NN Euro Green Bond Fund Certified By LuxFLAG

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The NN (L) Euro Green Bond fund, the fund issued by NN Investment Partners (NN IP), has been awarded with the...

Amundi co-launches largest green bond fund with World Bank

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The French Asset Manager Amundi together with IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, have launched the largest green-bond fund...

ETC: Accelerated Transition to Low-Carbon Energy Needed

Stockholm (NordSIP) - According to a new report, Better Energy, Greater Prosperity from the Energy Transitions Commission (ETC), a grouping of chief executives, influencer...

Bolmstrand: Climate Impact on Cash Flows “Underestimated”

Stockholm (NordSIP) - “ESG adds an additional layer into the analysis of portfolio companies and it enhances returns. It is having a profound effect...

UNPRI, UNGC Call For Sustainable Corp. Pensions Industry

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In the run-up to Earth Day on April 22, the UNPRI and the UN Global Compact has issued a call-to-action to...

PKA excludes energy companies resistant to change

Stockholm (NordSIP) PKA has recently divested from five Canadian oil companies, bringing the total number of fossil fuel-related firms it has excluded from its...

DNB Pulls Out From Dakota Access Oil Pipeline

Stockholm (NordSIP) DNB, the largest bank in Norway, has ended its involvement in the Dakota Access oil pipeline by selling its shares. The bank...

Swedfund in East Africa Renewable Energy Initiative

Stockholm (NordSIP) Swedfund, the Swedish state-owned development financier which provides funding, expertise and financial support for investments in emerging markets in Africa, Asia, Latin...

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