The outlook for energy in 2022/2023 from the INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY. Read it an weep or invest in renewables?

What is the balance between financial goals and goals related to the wellbeing of others? asks David Rouch, Partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus & Author of, The Social Licence For Financial Markets: Reaching For The End And Why It Counts

Many companies overlook the pressing, often surprising, array of climate risks they face.

We are in new territory here – an overnight major shift in how countries think about their energy resilience against the backdrop of a multi-decadal, yet equally urgent energy transition.

Projections for regional growth in 2022 have therefore been reduced from 5.4 percent in the previous Update to 5 percent.

PRI and SASB have come out with great tools for asset managers and buyout firms, but they don't quite cover where VC is: fast-changing companies, often in markets that are created from scratch say the WEF.

PRI believes that an economically efficient, sustainable global financial system is a necessity for long-term value creation. Such a system will reward long-term, responsible investment and benefit the environment and society as a whole.

Lessons learned from the existing analyses and practices of financial institutions, credit rating agencies and supervisors

COP26 saw biodiversity emerge as the next ‘ESG frontier’. But is it the wild west or a complex world with nuanced requirements to understand and work with?

In 2020, LGIM cast over 138,600 votes at over 14,000 meetings. Here’s what they voted for and against.

This report from CDP and Planet Tracker details how water risks are already leading to stranded assets across key industrial sectors and shows how financial institutions are exposed to these risks. It looks at four case studies across the coal, electric utilities, metals & mining, and oil & gas sectors.

What are the levers through which PE can create value through sustainability?

The bottom line is that there does not appear to be a short-term crisis brewing because of the size of the debt, political gamesmanship or rising interest rates. However……

“To call them ‘credit indicators’ attempts to legitimize a dubious and unproven exercise in developing a political ratings system that is based on indeterminate factors,” Rep Chris Stewart

Moody’s say Sustainable bond volumes moderated in the first quarter of 2022 as global market headwinds intensified.

Hetty Green used Value principles to tame the wild markets of the Gilded Age and establish herself as the richest woman in America.

By moving away from a traditional 60% equity-40% bond portfolio many proponents delivered better absolute and risk-adjusted returns over traditional approaches.

Investing in a random fund gives NPV equal to E[GPMEi]. It is useful to decompose this quantity in a typical asset pricing way. Or throw darts at a board?

Over the last decade the number of proposals submitted globally at annual shareholder meetings increased by over 80%.

What’s hot and what’s not. A lot more red that blue in this particular crystal ball.