ACS 2023: Private sector investment steals the show at Africa Climate Summit
Private sector investment is increasingly taking centre stage at the Africa Climate Summit, with Kenya's president urging investors to reallocate billions into renewables
Biodiversity
Nature finance: are biodiversity credits moving too fast?
Efforts to scale up nature finance fuel an interest in biodiversity credits, but experts worry that the momentum is unable to digest the complexity
Exclusive: awareness issues prevent biodiversity investments from taking off
A new survey shared exclusively with Net Zero Investor highlights that financial firms' board level awareness about biodiversity still has a long way to go
AP7’s Johan Floren: Placing biodiversity in the ‘active consciousness’ of investors
AP7’s ESG chief spoke to Net Zero Investor on sustainable finance waking up to biodiversity and its role in the climate transition
UK asset owners crank up pressure on managers not following their AGM voting priorities
On the launch of Scottish Widows' 2022 Stewardship Report, the UK pension fund warns that it will take 'tougher action' on investment managers not following its sustainability voting priorities.
Fidelity: Biodiversity ‘investment megatrend of a lifetime’
The asset manager has called for capital to be shifted towards reversing damage to nature caused by last half century of human activity.
PLSA exclusive: Why BT pension’s investment guardian takes ‘a pragmatic, evolving approach’
As Britain’s pension funds gather at PLSA in Edinburgh, Net Zero Investor sits down with Wyn Francis who represents the UK’s largest company scheme
PLSA exclusive: USS heavyweight on decarbonisation, renewables and biodiversity investments
In an exclusive interview with NZI, Innes McKeand of the UK's Universities Superannuation Scheme discusses his pension fund's role in the net zero investment space
Church of England: Investors should focus more on immediate impact of climate change
The Church Commissioners for England's net zero lead warns investor focus should shift to immediate climate change impact rather than long term net zero goals
Investor mood turns sour on biodiversity: ‘it is a scary zone’
Panellists at a conference in Paris expressed their concern about the biodiversity investment space as a host of challenges throw doubt on how fast they can move
Industry insider: Net zero success requires ‘paradigm shift’ in human consumption
A major impact investor highlighted during a London panel the importance of ‘sustainable growth’ moving forward
