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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...

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...

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...

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...

NBIM Endorses Semi-Annual Reporting

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Management, as is also the case in other broader economic matters, is often concerned with balancing disparate needs. To solve these...

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...

A Standardised and Quantitative Biodiversity Framework

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Since the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework at the end of COP15 in late 2022, biodiversity and nature-related investments...

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...

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...

Introducing Transition Linkers

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Ensuring their ability to smoothly navigate the energy transition is a priority for large global investors and policymakers. In a recent...

CFA Gathers Luminaries on Net-Zero

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In an effort to spread best practices for sustainable investing, the CFA Institute Research and Policy Center has announced the publication...

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,...

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...

NZAOA Report 6% Emissions Decrease

Stockholm (NordSIP) - The Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) announced its 88 members, representing US$9.5 trillion in assets under management (AUM), had achieved average...

Is NBIM Failing its own Climate Action Plan?

Stockholm (NordSIP) - With the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015 and the launch of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), sustainable investments...

FIIND Impact Publishes New Investment Guide to Fighting Poverty

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As impact investments continue to grow, investors remain interested in investing in climate change mitigation and the fight against poverty. However,...

Article 9 Fund Review Q2 2024

In this edition of NordSIP’s Article 9 Fund Review, we dive into the key trends shaping sustainable investments during the first half of 2024. As...

AP4 and Invesco Highlight Climate Metrics

Stockholm (NordSIP) -Given the evolving climate reporting landscape and the wide and complex range of metrics available to investors, environmental disclosures remain a topic...

Are Carbon Credits a License to Pollute?

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The use of carbon credits to offset corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has been a controversial subject over recent months.  Closer...

Keeping Decarbonisation On Track

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The challenges faced by institutional investors seeking to align their equity and fixed income portfolios with low carbon pathways are addressed...

Corporate Climate Leaders Identified

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Non-profit think tank InfluenceMap provides fresh insight into corporate climate policy engagement in its new Global Leaders in Climate Policy Engagement...

Global Fund Search – Sustainable Leaders 2024

In today's landscape, recognised sustainability leadership status has evolved from a nice-to-have for sustainable asset managers to a significant statement of commitment. As ESG...

New Engagement Guide on Plastics

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution (INC-5) will begin...

ESG Money Backing Deforestation

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Deforestation is still lagging behind other environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues for many asset managers, with many large ESG-labelled investment...

Cheaper Cost of Capital for ESG Leaders

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Investors seeking empirical evidence to counter claims of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors acting as performance headwinds may be interested...

Water Risk Neglected by Investors

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Directors of financial institutions that ignore water-related risks may be neglecting their duties, according to environmental disclosure non-profit CDP.  A newly...

EU Climate Action Hindered by Meat Lobby

Stockholm (NordSIP) – London-based non-profit think tank InfluenceMap has published new research into the lobbying activities of European meat and dairy companies.  Released on...

Sweden’s Old Growth Forests Used For Cardboard

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) was signed in December 2022 after a final round of negotiations at the nature-focused COP15...

Solar and Wind Energy Forge Ahead

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Renewable energy sources were behind almost one third of the world’s electricity consumption in 2023, according to a new report from...

Passive Funds Accused of Greenwashing

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Investors in passive funds marketed as sustainable should be wary of inadvertently holding positions in fossil fuel companies that are actively...

Oil Companies Miles Off Transition Track

Stockholm (NordSIP) – “Investors seeking Paris-aligned portfolios cannot credibly invest in companies that are not themselves Paris-aligned,” states Maeve O’Connor, Oil, Gas and Mining...

The In-built Bigotry of AI

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The inbuilt gender biases of Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms are highlighted in a new report published by UNESCO.  Challenging systematic prejudices:...

Women Bosses Still Too Few

Stockholm (NordSIP) – International Women’s Day is a prime occasion for a gender-related stocktake. Right on cue, Impact Cubed, a provider of ESG impact...

CDP Warns of Nature Reporting Gaps

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Corporate disclosures on nature-related risks remain insufficient and the little data that is reported highlights potentially damaging exposures.  This is the...

Quantifying Companies’ Biodiversity Footprint

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Despite growing awareness among institutional investors about the importance of preserving biodiversity, many are finding it challenging to take concrete action....

Swedish Banks Off Net-Zero Track

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The financed emissions and lack of consistent transition policies of the five largest banks active on the Swedish market put them...

Sweden Slips Down Corruption Rankings

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Anti-corruption non-governmental organisation (NGO) Transparency International published its 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) on January 30th.  While the Nordic Region continue...

Big Four Managers Neglecting Stewardship

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Significant weaknesses in the current stewardship of institutional portfolios have been exposed in the latest Voting Matters 2023 report from ShareAction. ...

Renewable Energy Surging Ahead

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The goal of tripling global renewable energy capacity by 2030 that was agreed at COP28 appears to be well within reach,...