Investors continue to back fossil fuels with $4.3trn still invested
New research by environmental organisation Urgewald reveals that investors are still pumping $4trn of assets into companies that are developing new fossil fuel assets
Paris Alignment
Proxy season 2024 stock take: what shareholder votes tell us about stewardship
What do the results of CA100+ flagged votes for the 2024 proxy season tell us about progress on the road to decarbonisation?
NZI with Nawar - Successful decarbonisation
NZI head of research Atharva Deshmukh and Kanata Advisors CEO Nawar Alsaadi talk about the main focus points for investors engaging on cooperate decarbonisation strategies
NZIF 2.0: new asset classes, focus on real world impact
Net Zero Investment Framework (NZIF) has been overhauled, including a greater emphasis on financing reduced emissions and widening the asset classes in the scope of the framework
Toyota AGM: shareholders reject climate lobbying resolution
Investors remain concerned about the company’s political footprint.
Blueprints with fine prints: 2030 targets and renewables deployment
Many countries have adopted bold interim targets for the next decade. But do investment outcomes align with political ambition?
Bonn: five potential COP29 agenda items for investors to watch
The German city of Bonn hosts SB60, the 60th meeting of UN subsidiary bodies, which will set the agenda for the 2024 COP29 summit this week. Here are five key topics for investors to watch
Money talks: investors turn their focus to fossil fuel funders
With the AGM season drawing to a close, Net Zero Investor assesses how investors have switched their engagement focus from oil firms to banks
BNP Paribas ceases underwriting of coal and gas bonds
French lender BNP Paribas has effectively ceased to participate in the issuance of bonds by the oil and gas sector, the bank confirmed at its AGM this week, in one of the most drastic pushbacks to fossil fuel lending so far
Climate lobbying: an emerging proxy battleground
Corporate lobbying against climate policies has become a key agenda item this AGM season, with nearly half of all PACCAR investors demanding more transparency
Does Norway’s sovereign wealth fund have a coal secret?
New research from the Nordic Center for Sustainable Finance says the fund has $18 bn invested in coal
Asset owners call out Shell’s LNG expansion plans
Oil giant Shell is putting Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) at the heart of its expansion plans but ahead of its AGM, asset owners warn it is failing to meet Paris targets
