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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...

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...

Pragmatism May Trump Altruism at COP29

Stockholm (NordSIP) – COP29 get underway in Baku, Azerbaijan today 11 November 2024 with the fossil fuel sector still riding a wave of record...

NGFS Publishes Macro Modelling Guide to Climate Change

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Given the increased impact of climate change as well as the struggles to combat it and transition to a net-zero carbon...

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...

COP16 Update: Nature Finance Leaders and Laggards

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Stand up Norway, Sweden, and Germany.  Those are the only three developed countries that have backed up their commitment to the...

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,...

Call to Bridge Nature Finance Gap

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The annual global biodiversity financing gap is estimated to be $700 billion.  This is the shortfall of what is needed to...

Gaping Holes in Banks’ Net-Zero Strategies

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The role of banks in the transition to a low-carbon global economy is scrutinised in a new report produced by the...

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...

WWF Report Finds Average 73% Fall in Wildlife Populations

Stockholm (NordSIP) - According to the World Wildlife Fund‘s (WWF) Living Planet Report 2024 the average size of monitored wildlife populations fell by 73% between...

Investors Seek Natural Capital Impact

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) begins on 21 October 2024 in Cali,...

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...

Sovereign Investors’ Sustainability Mindset in 2024

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The sustainability practices and concerns of sovereign investors are revealed in a new study published by US asset management firm Invesco. ...

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...

Banks’ Cash Pipeline to Big Oil

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The vast amounts of financing provided to the fossil fuel industry by the world’s largest banks since the signing of the...

Sustainability Continues to Climb the CEO Priority Ladder

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Despite an increasing cacophony of detractors across the pond, anecdotal evidence suggests that sustainability concerns remain at the forefront of business...

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...

Shell’s Phantom Carbon Credits

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The limitations of two climate change mitigation measures favoured by the oil industry have been starkly brought to light following an...

Insurers Out of Step With Climate Action

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The insurance industry’s role in facilitating new fossil fuel extraction projects was brought centre stage in early March of this year...

Regulators Warn Against Blurry Bank Net-Zero Promises

Stockholm (NordSIP) - In an article published in the ECB's occasional Paper Series at the start of April, eight analysts at the central bank...

Europe Faces €1 Trillion of Annual Climate Change Costs by 2100

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As announced by the 2021 EU strategy on adaptation, the European Environment Agency (EEA) together with many partner organisations, published its...

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...

How to Exclude Weapons at a Time of War

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As the Swedish flag was finally hoisted at NATO's European Headquarters, with yet no end in sight for the Russian invasion...

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:...

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...

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...

Have Insurers Got Climate Change Covered?

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Insurance companies have had a long history of involvement with climate action.  A business model with inherent “skin in the game”...

Top Global Risks Revealed

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland of the global great and the good under the auspices of the World Economic Forum...

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. ...

Can Smart ESG Balance Tracking Error and Impact?

Stockholm (NordSIP) - As ESG investors look forward to 2024, finding ways to overcome the challenges of investing sustainably will be foremost on their...

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,...

Investor Survey Shows ESG in Rude Health

Stockholm (NordSIP) – ESG investing remains in good health, according to a new report commissioned by investment management solution provider SimCorp.  The 2024 Global...

The State of Sustainable Investment in 2023

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The sustainable investment industry is maturing, according to the findings of two new surveys of asset owners conducted by FTSE Russell...

Managers on Wrong Stewardship Wavelength

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The stewardship and voting duties inherent in large diversified institutional equity portfolios are resource and time-consuming for asset owners.  Most investors...

Banks’ Nebulous Green Finance Claims

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Today 22 November 2023 non-profit NGO ShareAction published the results of its study of the green finance strategies of Europe’s 20...

TCFD’s Final Report Before Handover

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation (IFRS) will take over the monitoring responsibilities of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures...

Corporate Responsibility Towards Children Worsening

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The Stockholm based Global Child Forum (GCF) non-profit foundation has released the 2023 iteration of its annual benchmark Report.  Produced in...

Article 8 Funds Leaking Assets

Stockholm (NordSIP) – As the debate over the effectiveness of the European Union’s (EU) Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) continues, research platform Morningstar has...

STOXX Reveals Biodiversity Methodology

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Biodiversity has been firmly establishing itself on institutional investors’ agendas following the landmark Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework agreed at COP15 in...

AP7 Completes Climate Transition Project

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Since the adoption of the Paris climate agreement in 2015, Sweden’s €78 billion AP7 has implemented a series of 3-year sustainability-focused...

ESG Backlash? What ESG Backlash?

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The ESG backlash that has been emerging in the United States and some European countries does not appear to be overly...

Private Nordic Firms’ Climate Reporting Under Scrutiny

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The Nordic Region has a global reputation for being ahead of the curve in terms of corporate sustainability policies and behaviour. ...

Climate’s Major Beef With Livestock

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report states that even if fossil fuel use was eliminated overnight, the...

Do Institutional Investors Over-Report Their Greenness?

Stockholm (NordSIP) - Although some estimates put ESG investing at $35 trillion, there seems to be mounting evidence that the talk about institutional investors'...

Climate Litigation More Than Doubles in Five Years

Stockholm (NordSIP) - During recent years, the fight for a more sustainable future has often moved from the back halls of government power and...

Deforestation: Key Steps for Asset Owners

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th assessment report concluded that the “Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU)” sector...

Private Debt Tackles Global Poverty

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The advantages of private markets for impact investors are highlighted in a new report from Amsterdam-based investment consultancy the Phenix Capital...

Helping to Green the Planet or Just Greening Your Portfolio?

Stockholm (NordSIP) - On June 14th, Philipp Krueger, Professor of Responsible Finance at the University of Geneva (GSEM, GFRI) and Senior Chair at the Swiss...

Are You Underestimating Plastics Risk?

Stockholm (NordSIP) – With the United Nations-convened Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) having recently begun work on the draft of a global plastics treaty to...

Central Banks Take Stock of Transition Plans

Stockholm (NordSIP) - At the end of May, the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) published a report reviewing emerging practices relating to...

Food Systems: 6 Actions for Investors to Take Now

Stockholm (NordSIP) – The global food system accounts for more than a third of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.  It also greatly affects the...

Climate Transition Plans Lack Clarity

Stockholm (NordSIP) – CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) has been gathering environmental data from asset owners, companies, regions and municipalities for over two...

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