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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,...

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...

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:...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...