ESG Archive

Earlier this month, governance, sustainability and IR professionals engaged in lively debates at the ESG Integration Forum, hosted by Corporate Secretary and IR Magazine in London. Panel discussions covered areas including the convergence (or otherwise) of reporting standards, the growth of ‘green-hushing’ and why biodiversity deserves some of the attention being...

Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Republican governor and likely future presidential contender, has opened up a new front in his party’s war on ‘woke capitalism’. He is proposing to change the rules around how public bodies within Florida borrow from the markets by issuing bonds. The proposal is that they would no longer be able to work with rati...

ESG specialist Osmosis Investment Management has received an allocation of $4.5 bn from a Dutch pension fund in one of the largest ever sustainable investment mandates.   Under the agreement, London-based Osmosis will run a global equity portfolio focused on resource-efficient companies for Pensioenfonds PGB, one of the top 10 largest pension funds in the Netherlands. The new portfolio will cut carbon emissions, water consumption and waste generation by mor...

Most management teams feel unprepared for the looming SEC rule on climate-related disclosures, according to a new survey by ICR. Nearly eight in 10 management teams (78 percent) express concerns about reporting ESG-related risks and strategies because of the forthcoming SEC rule. If approved, it would require companies to disclose information about their governance of climate-related risks and how these have had, or are likely to have, a material impact on their bus...