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Chemical Reaction to Climate Still Lacking

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Are chemical companies steering your portfolio away from a net-zero pathway?  The chemical industry accounts for 6% of global greenhouse gas...

Swedish Appetite for Green Investing Declines

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The ongoing cost of living crisis may be dampening Swedes’ enthusiasm for sustainable investing, according to new research published by the...

A Close Eye on Seafood Lobbying

Stockholm (NordSIP) – As David Attenborough’s latest film Ocean continues to raise the general public’s awareness of the fundamental importance of the seas that...

Is European Anti-ESG Backlash ‘Fake News’?

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Corporate voices lobbying against climate action are disproportionately loud and unrepresentative of the broader consensus among European companies.  This is the...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...