Can Labour’s £22bn CCS pledge capture investor interest?
With the UK government pledging £22bn to Carbon Capture and Storage, what do investors think about allocating to the asset?
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Pension funds urge UK government to change borrowing rules to boost green spending
With only weeks remaining until the UK’s Labour government announces its first budget, a coalition of Australian and UK investors, alongside the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA), have united to lobby the new administration on strategies to boost green investment.
LGPS pool LPPI to launch new Environment Opportunities Fund
Local Pensions Partnership Investments (LPPI), is set to launch a new Environment Opportunities Fund as Net Zero Investor can reveal
In pictures: NZI’s Real Estate Summit
Picture highlights from Net Zero Investor's first Real Estate Summit in London
To divest or not to divest? Border to Coast revisits the dilemma
Research commissioned by the British local government pool Border to Coast Pensions Partnership sheds light on the academic evidence on divestment
Border to Coast continues engagement with Shell after ‘disappointing’ climate targets
Border to Coast, the pooling vehicle for 11 Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) funds, has reported that its stewardship with supermajor Shell is “ongoing” despite reporting “disappointment” over “inadequate” climate targets
UK LGPS fund expands renewables and natural capital allocations
South Yorkshire Pensions Authority (SYPA) has committed a further £350m to the Border to Coast Climate Opportunities fund and bolstered its investments in forestry
Brunel’s Ravishankar: preventing stewardship strategies from becoming paper tigers
Vaishnavi Ravishankar, head of Stewardship at Brunel Pension Partnership takes stock of this year's AGM season arguing that climate stewardship is at an inflection point where alignment between managers and owners has to become a priority
