LGPS investors look to natural capital to drive their net zero transition
UK local authority asset owners are showing increased interest in natural capital to help decarbonise and diversify their portfolios
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Funding the wood for the trees: UK investors turn to timberland
Aysha Gilmore explores how UK asset owners are investing in carbon offsets such as timberland to help them transition to net zero
Higher rates pose challenge for renewables
As developers pull out of wind projects in the US and UK, how can investors in renewables protect themselves in an increasingly challenging environment?
Green hydrogen: still too niche for institutional investors?
While some asset owners are taking a pioneering first-mover approach, others struggle to find appropriate investment opportunities
PLSA: will the UK’s push to invest in private markets lead to more investments in renewables?
The British government has targeted the defined contribution sector and the LGPS as key potential investors to fund the country’s energy transition, but the move is facing challenges
No transition without transmission: why investors are joining the electrification dots
Investors are looking at car charge points, cables, battery storage, interconnectors, and other opportunities in the broader energy transition value chain
LGPS Central launches new net zero strategy to ‘decarbonise real economy’
Patrick O'Hara and Edward Baker from LGPS Central talk to Net Zero Investor about the pensions pools newly launched net zero strategy.
COP28: Changing global temperature target would dilute net zero strategies
Stewardship practices, especially escalation and divestment policies, will weaken if COP leaders opt for a 2C or 1.8C global temperature target, pension funds say
Shiventa Sivanesan, West Midlands Pension Fund: ‘We are looking at new and emerging technologies’
The LGPS fund's assistant director of investment management and stewardship talks about recent green capital allocations and why they were made
