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The Major Risk Ignored by European Banks

Stockholm (NordSIP) – European banks should urgently address the risks inherent in the plastics industry value chain, according to new analysis by financial non-profit...

“We are Increasing the Risks to Our Lives”, WMO Warns

Stockholm (NordSIP) - This week, the UN's World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), published its annual State of the Global Climate report. The study confirmed that 2024...

BlackRock’s Major ESG Fund Spring Clean

Stockholm (NordSIP) – New fund naming guidelines from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) come into full effect on 21 May 2025, which...

Swedish Agencies Issue RFP for Sustainability Systems

Stockholm (NordSIP) - This week, the Swedish Pensions Agency (Pensionsmyndigheten) together with the Swedish Fund Selection Agency (Fondtorgsnämnden) (FTN), announced the procurement of two...

Council on Ethics’ New Proactive Approach

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The Council on Ethics for the Swedish National Pension Funds (Etikrådet) believes the strengthening of its team has resulted in more...

Söderberg & Partners Green Lights Sustainable Leaders

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Söderberg & Partners has published its annual Traffic Lights report singling out the best players in the Swedish financial industry in...

Fund Industry Shifting Defence Stance

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The 2025 Global Risk Report positioned state-based armed conflict as the top current risk and the third most pressing over the...

Taxonomy-Aligned CapEx Grows Amid Heterogeneous Transition

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The EU Platform on Sustainable Finance has published a report on Monitoring Capital Flows to Sustainable Investments. The Platform on Sustainable...

Northvolt Declares Bankruptcy in Sweden

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In the latest development in the saga of Northvolt, the company has announced it has declared bankruptcy in Sweden. The announcement...

Glass Lewis Goes High Tech With Esgaia Purchase

Stockholm (NordSIP) – San Francisco-based Glass Lewis announced today 11 March 2025 that it is acquiring Swedish investment stewardship data management platform Esgaia. Glass...

ESG Fund Market Tested: Small- to Mid-Cap Equities a Sweet Spot

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Sustainable investors seeking consistent and reliable implantation of their ESG goals are better off sticking with funds applying Sustainable Finance Disclosure...

Nordic Fund Riding AI Wave

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The challenge of supporting the rapidly growing artificial intelligence (AI) industry received a boost on 5 March 2025 with the announcement...

COP16.1 Outcome: Hope Springs Eternal

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The reconvened 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) that took place in Rome from 25...

Do Omnibus Proposals Shred EU’s Sustainability Regulations?

Stockholm (NordSIP) - After much anticipation, the European Commission (EC) formally proposed a new package of simplified EU sustainability rules, specifically pertaining to the...

ESG Cited in $35 Billion Asset Loss by US Manager

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The potential implications of US managers’ response to the anti-ESG backlash in their home nation were brought to light today 27...

SEC Stifles Corporate Engagement

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Institutional investors’ stewardship of United States (US) investee companies has been thrown into disarray by changes in Securities and Exchange Commission...

No Article 9 Among FTN’s Latest Nordic Mandates

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The Swedish Fund Selection Agency (Fondtorgsnämnden, in Swedish, or FTN) has awarded the procurement eight Nordic funds to five asset managers...

Scania Buys Northvolt’s Battery Factory

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In the latest development in the restructuring of Northvolt, the company announced it was selling the Northvolt Systems Industrial division, a...

FI Approves Alecta’s Next Chairman

Stockholm (NordSIP) - According to a press release issued by Alecta, the Swedish occupational pensions manager has received the decision from the Swedish Financial...

Aviation’s Climate Plans Stuck at Departure Gate

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The aviation industry faces accusations of marking its own homework on climate issues as the level of lobbying at the UN-sponsored...

North American Managers’ ESG Voting Collapse

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Many large asset managers are stepping away from sustainability-related activist investing, with their support for relevant shareholder resolutions almost evaporating since...

IKEA Unpacks Net-Zero Transition Plan

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The INGKA Group, which operates the main retail network of the IKEA brand in 31 countries, published its net-zero transition plan...

Nordic Borrowers Remain Committed to Sustainable Bonds

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Following the peak issuance of 2021 fuelled by the COVID-19 pandemic, 2024 saw global sustainable debt issuance return to positive annual...

Swedish AP Funds Write Down Northvolt

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As the Northvolt collapse continues to unfold, this week the second Swedish state pension buffer fund, AP2, announced that the investment...

Microsoft Highlights ESG Challenges of AI

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Microsoft has expanded its decarbonisation efforts with a 7-million-ton long-term deal signed in early February 2025 with New York based firm...

Is Norway Exporting its Carbon Footprint?

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The practice known as greenrinsing continues as Norway’s state-owned oil producer Equinor followed BP and Shell in backtracking on previously set...

COP16.1 Preview: Second Chance for Nature Finance

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16), which ended in November 2024 without reaching a...

Nordic Banks Funding Coal, Oil, and Gas

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Nordic banks continue to finance fossil fuel companies that are expanding their extraction and production of coal, oil, and gas, thereby...

Commission Publishes Controversial First Omnibus Details

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In November 2024, following the publication of a competitiveness report by Mario Draghi, ex-Italian prime minister and ex-President of the ECB,...

ESG Fund Market Health Check

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Sustainable fund investing is very much a European game, according to new research published by Morningstar on 27 January 2025. This...

Varma Recognised as Sustainability Leader

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At a time of retreating ESG confidence, committed sustainable investors continued to highlight their sustainability credentials despite the idiosyncracies of popular...

Michael Bloomberg to Fund UNFCCC

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As part the January 20th Trump Administration's executive order leaving the Paris Agreement, the president revoked all US financial commitments to...

Armed Conflict Tops 2025 WEF Risk List

Stockholm (NordSIP) – This week's annual meeting of the World Economic Forum's (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, is the opportunity for the global political and...

The Future is Nuclear at Davos

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The first ever public panel discussion on nuclear energy to be held at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in...

UNEP, PRI and ICMM Launch Tailings Institute

NordSIP (Stockholm) - Following the announcement of its creation in 2023, the UN Environmental Programme (UN EP) reported the launch of the Global Tailings Management...

The Fed Leaves Central Bankers’ Green Network

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On January 17th, in a short press release, the Federal Reserve Board of the USA, the body overseeing the country's central...

Nordic Institutional Investors Seek Natural Capital Strategies

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Global Fund Search (GFS) has published a request for proposals (RFP) according to which Jenzten & Partners is searching for global...

Digitalisation Risk Management Blind Spot

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Independent nonprofit the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is urging companies to keep up with the risks and opportunities brought about by...

Global Temperatures Exceed 1.5ºC for First Time

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On January 10th, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) announced that 2024 was the warmest year on record globally, and the...

BlackRock’s Exit Leaves Net Zero Initiative in Limbo

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The election of Donald Trump to another term in the White House has fuelled the Republican's momentum against sustainable investing and...

Exodus Causes GFANZ Reorganisation

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In its yearly update for 2025, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) announced a number of changes to its...

Fossil Giants Line Up Gas Power for AI

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The fossil fuel industry’s apparent efforts to hedge against the eventual reduction in global demand for oil and gas continue with...

JP Morgan Joins Net-Zero Banking Alliance Exodus

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On January 7th, JP Morgan announced it was leaving the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), the latest in a series of similar...

Nordics Lead EU in Sustainable Competitiveness

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At the end of 2024, the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) published the second edition of its Competitive Sustainability Index...

EU Mulls New Sustainable Fund Classification

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Since the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) became applicable in 2021, what was intended as a reporting framework gradually took...

COP29 and INC-5 Silver Linings

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Many policymakers, campaigners, and observers have expressed their disappointment with the outcome of the three major international rounds of climate, biodiversity,...

New Nature Investing Guide

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The Finance for Biodiversity Foundation (FfB) published its latest update on the range of initiatives open to financial institutions. Published on...

ESG Funds Flouting EU Guidelines

Stockholm (NordSIP) – European-domiciled funds with ‘ESG’ in their name hold more shares in fossil fuel companies than they hold in green investments. This...

Most Transparent Pension Funds Ranked

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global has been ranked as the most transparent fund in the world. The sovereign wealth fund,...

Institutional Investors See Continued Growth in Sustainable Investing

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At a time when ESG investments and sustainable finance are facing a barrage of pushback, with lacklustre support for transition at...

Should Coca Cola’s Greenrinsing Lead to Blacklisting?

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Strong engagement with, and potential exclusion of fossil fuel companies have long been on the agenda for Nordic institutional investors. Once...

Plastics Treaty Impasse Signals Hope

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The fifth meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the...

11 US States Sue BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street Over ESG Conspiracy

Stockholm (NordsIP) - In the latest effort ot undermine sustainable investments and the fight against climate change, the attorney generals from eleven states in...

Exploring Nordic Ocean Opportunities

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Covering three-quarters of the surface of our planet, oceans are crucial for life on Earth. They help regulate the climate, provide...

EU Financial Regulators Tackle Disasters and Stress Tests

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As climate change triggers more intense and frequent extreme weather events such as heatwaves, storms, floods, and droughts, homeowners are becoming...

Plastics Treaty Battle Reaches Crunch Time

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Following Colombia’s biodiversity COP16 and Azerbaijan’s climate COP29 crucial international environmental negotiations continue this week with the fifth session of the...

AP7 Adjusts ESG Unit as it Updates Climate Action Plan

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In the middle of November, AP7 published the third update to its Climate Action plan, the Swedish public pension fund's main...

COP29 Outcome: A Near Fiasco

Stockholm (NordSIP) – COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan followed the pattern set by previous such events in producing a final joint statement at the last...

Standing Up for Children’s Digital Mental Health

Stockholm (NordSIP) – As digital technology continues to develop and represent and increasing part of our daily lives, its effects and the health and...

COP29 Update: Simmering Tensions

Stockholm (NordSIP) – As the COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan nears the end of its second and final week, the atmosphere among delegates...

Climate Leaders and Laggards Ranked

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The Nordic Region’s longstanding climate credentials are coming under question as Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland achieve a disparate set of...

SEC and US Attorney Charge Adani Executives

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The Adani Group has been on sustainable investors' radar as a problematic conglomerate for some time. Over the last four years,...

G20’s Climate Message to COP29

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Heads of State from the Group of 20 (G20) nations gathered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for their annual summit on...

Nordics Lag In Paris Agreement Biannual Transparency Reporting

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Countries that have signed up to the 2015 Paris Agreement are expected to submit their first Biennial Transparency Report (BTR) and...

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