Investors and biodiversity: Young love, new challenges
Investors continue to struggle with integrating biodiversity in their decision-making process
Biodiversity
Timberland is increasingly on the radar of natural capital investors
Forestry is currently dominating the natural capital conversation for institutional investors looking at this emerging asset class
Most institutional investors still lack deforestation policy
The amount of capital flowing into deforestation dwarves positive investments, despite the key role forests play in tackling climate change
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
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