All Europe articles
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Addressing EU taxonomy usability issues
An assessment of EU taxonomy implementation: challenges and solutions.
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Infranity: Assessing climate performance to build sustainable infrastructure portfolios
Using a target-setting methodology to reduce portfolio and asset emission intensity
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Gresham House – Putting sustainable forest management into practice
Signatory Type: Investment manager HQ Location: London Assets under management: £7.3bn[1] Covered in this case study Asset class(es): Forestry Geography: Global Gresham House is a specialist alternative asset manager. We provide investment solutions across a range of strategies, covering forestry, real estate, infrastructure, ...
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Sofinnova Partners: Our evolving ESG philosophy as an early-stage venture capital investor
Sofinnova Partners on why and how it assesses the ESG maturity of its companies at each phase of their development.
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KfW Capital: Paving the way for a more sustainable venture capital ecosystem
KfW Capital outlines the processes and frameworks it has developed to conduct ESG due diligence on venture capital managers.
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FSN Capital: Identifying and addressing human rights in the value chain
Human rights case study
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Applying responsible investment principles to multi-asset credit manager selection
Organisation name: Brunel Pension Partnership Signatory type: Asset owner Region of operation: England Assets under management: £30 billion Why we consider responsible investment principles during manager due diligence We designed and delivered a multi-asset credit fund for our pension fund clients to meet their demands for diversified exposure to ...
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Climbing up the sustainability ladder – a manager scoring framework for asset owners
Organisation name: Kempen Capital Management Signatory type: Investment manager Region of operation: Europe Assets under management: €73 billion Why we use ESG criteria to assess external managers Our asset owner clients are increasingly embedding ESG information in their processes for selecting and monitoring external managers. Therefore, it is ...
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Engaging external managers on sustainable investment
Organisation name: Cardano Region of operation: Global Signatory type: Investment manager Assets under management: We provide fiduciary management services to 30 UK pension funds with combined assets of £16bn and investment advice to 10 UK pension funds with combined assets of £50bn. We also provide LDI execution and derivative overlay ...
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Accelerating integration of green generalist sustainable investing style into mid-market infrastructure investing
Case study by ICG, Oceinde Communications
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Integration of ESG factors into sovereign bonds: a case study of Russia
Case study by Colchester Global Investors
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EU taxonomy alignment case study: Foresight
Table styles ORGANISATION DETAILS Name Foresight Group Signatory type Investment manager Region of operation UK, Europe and Australia Assets under management c. £6.5bn COVERED IN THIS CASE STUDY Name of fund Foresight Energy Infrastructure Partners (FEIP) ...
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EU taxonomy alignment case study: MN
The EU taxonomy can help show which eligible economic activities are environmentally sustainable and reflect a shift in the regulatory understanding of ’sustainable investing’ from risk mitigation to positive contribution, offsetting concerns over “greenwashing”.
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EU taxonomy alignment case study 1: Aberdeen Standard Investments
ASI recognises the merit of the EU taxonomy initiative. It is extremely valuable for investors to be able to identify and objectively classify business activities that materially contribute to climate mitigation and other sustainability objectives.
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EU taxonomy alignment case study: ESG Portfolio Management
ESG Portfolio Management’s mission is to advise a diversified set of investment funds and mandates, including on ESG factors, SDG impacts and climate risk.