Investors and biodiversity: Young love, new challenges
Investors continue to struggle with integrating biodiversity in their decision-making process
Risk Management
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
Taking stock of physical risks: investors could be in for a ‘rude awakening’
How can investors assess and manage physical climate risk and resilience across their portfolios? A range of asset owners share their approach
Stranded assets: The trillion-dollar decommissioning challenge
The cost of decommissioning stranded assets could be as high as $8 trillion across conventional and renewable energy sources, new research suggests
Net zero policies and transition risks: ‘asset owners should prepare for twenty volatile years’
Whether the green transition happens by design or by disaster, reading the policy runes is still a massive headache for asset owners
GFANZ launches transition finance consultation
The global net zero alliance aims to support the scaling up of transition finance by providing common definitions
USS and University of Exeter call for ‘radical shift’ in measuring climate risk
USS, the UK’s largest pension scheme and the University of Exeter have called for a “radical and urgent” shift in climate scenario modelling.
BERS’ investment lead: ‘climate change is an un-diversifiable risk’
Antonio Rodriguez leads the investment office about NYC BERS. He sat down with Net Zero Investor to discuss divestment, diversification and the anti-ESG pushback
Stalemate on G20 climate talks as fossil fuel subsidies surge
G20 leaders fail to agree on climate pledges - could this be an obstacle to investments in renewables?
Climate scientist Susanne Ditlevsen: ‘I am shocked by how bad climate economists are’
Climate scientist Susanne Ditlevsen explains to Net Zero Investor why asset owners need to avoid mainstream climate economic forecasts
Rising sea levels could sink Asian banks investors warn
As sea levels are rising, so could the risk of NPLs among Asian banks, an investor coalition warned