Reporting and Finance

Activist investors vow to keep climate in their sights, despite war in Ukraine
Mike Scott, (Mar 17, 2022)

Mike Scott reports on the new breed of shareholder activists, like Engine No. 1, who are focused on accelerating the energy transition from inside companies
What will SEC’s climate disclosure rules mean for U.S. companies?
Mike Scott, (Mar 1, 2022)

Mike Scott assesses the implications for listed firms as the U.S. regulator prepares to follow Europe, New Zealand and Hong Kong in making made climate-related disclosure mandatory
ESG Watch: Including gas in Europe’s green investment rules muddies waters for investors
Mike Scott, (Mar 1, 2022)

Amid mixed policy signals, investors are developing their own protocols and initiatives to translate net-zero commitments into action, reports Mike Scott
ESG Watch: Disclosure pressures to grow as investors push for a just transition
Mike Scott, (Jan 27, 2022)

Mike Scott scopes out the year ahead for sustainable investment in his monthly columns
Reset the rules: how our pensions can become a game changer
Catherine Howarth, (Dec 16, 2021)

Comment: ShareAction’s Catherine Howarth says it is not in the best interest of pensioners for their savings to be financing polluting industries, which is why it is proposing changes to UK pensions legislation
Amazon, Twitter and Netflix make first climate disclosures as CDP raises bar for A list
Mike Scott, (Dec 10, 2021)

Companies with approved Science Based Targets get greater weighting in this year’s ranking as the climate disclosure NGO seeks to crack down on ‘false net zero’ commitments, reports Mike Scott
'With 60% of global funds aligned with 2.75C, the net-zero rhetoric needs to quickly become reality'
Paul Simpson, (Dec 2, 2021)

Comment: Paul Simpson of CDP says financial institutions and investors need to engage with companies to drive a widespread transition to a net-zero, nature-positive and resilient economy
ESG Watch: Pockets of progress, but still far from where we need to be on climate
Mike Scott, (Nov 25, 2021)

Mike Scott says agreements to phase down coal, replace internal combustion engines, cut methane emissions and reduce deforestation were far from sufficient but show investors the direction of travel
Analysis: Why delivering on net-zero promises is ‘now absolutely the order of the day’
Terry Slavin, (Nov 18, 2021)

COP26 saw an unprecedented surge in corporate climate pledges, particularly on nature and emissions in hard to abate sectors, but with rising concern about the credibility and effectiveness of private sector commitments, the focus going forward will be holding their feet to the fire. Terry Slavin reports
DSM’s Geraldine Matchett: ‘We need to go faster on cutting methane emissions from agriculture’
Mike Scott, (Nov 4, 2021)

Mike Scott speaks to the chief financial officer of Dutch nutrition company DSM in the third part of our series on the role of CFOs in the race to net zero
ESG Watch: New net-zero standard aims to help investors mind the climate action gap
Mike Scott, (Oct 28, 2021)

With new reports out ahead of COP26 highlighting the need to pick up speed and ambition on driving down emissions, Mike Scott rounds up the latest developments by investors to rise to the challenge
Investors want to back net-zero, but COP26 needs to come up with a plan, says Günther Thallinger
Oliver Balch, (Oct 27, 2021)

In an interview with the chair of the Net-Zero Assets Owner Alliance, Oliver Balch asks what institutional investors are hoping to hear from governments at COP26
Alexsandro Broedel: ‘Sustainability is part of the business model, not something that stands alone’
Mark Hillsdon, (Oct 26, 2021)

Mark Hillsdon speaks to the chief financial officer of Brazilian bank Itaú-Unibanco in the second part of our series on the role of CFOs in the race to net zero
Melanie Kreis: ‘If we are serious about net zero, we need to know how much it will cost’
Mike Scott, (Oct 18, 2021)

Mike Scott talks to Melanie Kreis of Deutsche Post DHL in the first of a series of interviews with chief financial officers about their role in the transition to net zero
ESG Watch: Airlines and chemicals sector feel weight of collective investor pressure
Mike Scott, (Oct 5, 2021)

In his monthly analysis of the latest sustainable investment news, Mike Scott reports on Climate TRACE, which aims to radically improve monitoring of emissions, and growing calls for more surveillance of ESG industry
‘Sustainable solutions exist for the two billion people who lack access to cooling’
Giles Bristow, (Sep 14, 2021)

Comment: Giles Bristow of Ashden urges impact investors to back innovators in the Global South who have developed affordable and effective alternatives to air conditioning

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