Net Zero Investor

How are the UK’s master trusts tackling the net zero challenge?

The UK's rapidly growing master trust market could become a key player in the transition towards a net zero economy

By Atharva Deshmukh and Mona Dohle

Howden CEO: address investors’ concerns to make vulnerable countries insurable

At COP28 in Dubai, David Howden, founder and CEO of global insurer Howden, sat down with NZI to discuss the role of the Loss and Damages Fund in addressing climate risk and insurance challenges for the Global South

‘Arms race’ for clean energy allocations intensifies as Biden’s IRA pulls ahead

In the race for investors' renewables capital, the EU, China and the U.S. have rolled out ambitious clean energy investment programs. Despite the various initiatives, industry insiders agree Biden's IRA is "a tough offering to match"

Defined Benefit

Exclusive - New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli: ‘we cannot divest our way to net zero’

Sovereign Wealth

What can net zero-minded investors still achieve in a ‘hot house’ world?

Pensions

AP2 CEO Eva Halvarsson: ‘it is strange to talk about impact investing’

Best of Net Zero Investor: 2023 interview highlights

As 2023 is drawing to a close, this end-of-year special takes a look at some of the conversations NZI had this year with net zero investment movers & shakers around the world

By Michiel Willems

Nuclear renaissance: net-zero solution or dangerous gamble?

NZI Annual Conference: engagement with BP and Shell is ‘a lost cause’

Row over fossil fuel language – COP28 ‘on the verge of failure’

NZI Annual Conference: a turning point for the energy transition

Shipra Gupta: ‘Pensions one of the most powerful tools to make net zero progress’

How to scale up nature-based solutions

Insurance

COP 28: Overcoming risk is key to unlocking climate-nature investment

Sovereign Wealth

MAS-led coalition of investors targets Asian coal plants

Defined Benefit

Transition planning takes centre stage at COP28

Aegon’s Samantha Chew on stewardship: ‘The case for expression of wish’

Samantha Chew, stewardship lead in the Investment Proposition team at pension provider Aegon UK argues that expression of wish could be another option for asset owners to exercise stewardship

Defined Benefit

Oil and gas: to divest or not to divest?

Defined Benefit

Trustees call for a re-definition of fiduciary duty to drive net zero transition

Defined Benefit

Anna-Stina Wiklund: ‘How we integrate biodiversity criteria across asset classes’

Defined Benefit

How goals-based liability indices can help pension funds meet net zero targets

Pensions