All Environmental issues articles – Page 12
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Thought leadershipImpact investing market map: Renewable energy
Non-conventional energy generation is one of the most well-known industries in the impact investing field, having evolved from an illiquid or early-stage impact market to a mainstream market in the past 15 years.
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Thought leadershipImpact investing market map: Energy efficiency
Energy efficiency is often associated with clean technology companies, green energy enterprises and smart or eco products (such as washing machines that consume less energy or hybrid cars).
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Thought leadershipInitial considerations
While impact investing is a new paradigm for the investment community, there are still many gaps and issues that need to be addressed to take it to the mainstream.
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Thought leadershipImpact investing market map: Green buildings
Green building projects are well known to companies in this field, as well as by investors and policy makers.
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Thought leadershipImpact investing market map: Sustainable agriculture
Sustainable agriculture as a thematic investment is relatively new in the impact investing industry; but while few companies currently work or invest in this area, it is a growing market.
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Workshop summaryHow can investors help create a plastics economy that works? Event roundup
Whilst plastic is fundamental to everyday life, plastic waste poses significant reputational risks, particularly for the food, beverage and retail sectors.
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Technical guide
Integrating climate-related risks and opportunities into investment processes
The PRI defines integration as “the explicit and systematic inclusion of [climate change] issues in investment analysis and investment decisions.”
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Technical guide
Low-carbon investing and green and climate-aligned bonds
Climate (or climate-aligned) bonds refer to labelled and unlabelled bonds for which proceeds are intended to finance projects and activities that contribute to a low-carbon and climate-resilient economy. Green bonds refers to explicitly labelled bonds for which the proceeds will be exclusively used to finance, or re-finance (in part or ...
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Technical guide
Low-carbon investing and unlisted strategies and assets
Investments in clean energy across unlisted asset classes (such as property, private equity, infrastructure, agriculture and timberland) and projects (such as renewable energy and energy efficiency projects) is clearly growing (see below).
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PodcastWhy should investors care about WASH?
This podcast explores how water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) issues in company operations and supply chains affect investors and why investors should engage on the topic.
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WebinarBenchmarking infrastructure assets on ESG performance
The PRI and GRESB teamed up to produce a webinar explaining why investors use the GRESB Infrastructure platform, how it works and the value it brings to their organisations.
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Academic research
How engagement creates value for investors and companies: conclusion
By evidencing how corporations experience ESG engagement, unpacking the dynamics through which multiple forms of value are created for corporations and investors, and contrasting corporate and investor perspectives about the value of engagement, our analysis has resulted in a number of key insights. These insights have implications for current and ...
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Academic research
Enablers and barriers to successful ESG engagement
We identified common enabling factors and barriers to successful engagements, from corporate and investor perspectives.
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Academic research
Creating value for investors and companies: Individual versus collective ESG engagement
When asked about the pros and cons of individual as opposed to collective forms of engagement, few corporate interviewees could clearly differentiate between the two forms, as in both cases, a lead investor may be charged with approaching them.
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How engagement creates value for investors and companies: (Re)defining engagement success
An implication of both the consideration of the corporate perspective on engagement, and a broader definition of value, is the reconsideration of how engagement success is defined.
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How engagement creates value for investors and companies: Relationship building
ESG engagement encourages closer collaboration between ESG and financial analysts and/or fund managers. In addition, the relationships between investors and companies support the integration of ESG, in a self-reinforcing manner, within both investment firms and companies.
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Academic research
How engagement creates value for investors and companies: Political dynamics
This chapter looks at the role of political dynamics in how ESG engagement can create value for investors and companies.
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Academic research
How engagement creates value for investors and companies: Learning dynamics
The reinforcement of the communication channels between investors and their investee companies through ESG engagement also creates new opportunities for learning about ESG issues on the corporate side.
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Academic research
How engagement creates value for investors and companies: Communicative dynamics
We identified three main sets - communicative, learning and political - of ESG engagement dynamics which create value. This chapter focuses on the communicative dynamics.
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Introduction to how ESG engagement creates value for investors and companies
A growing number of investors are undertaking corporate engagement and exercising their rights as shareholders to influence corporate behaviour.
