All Sustainable financial system articles – Page 2
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Thought leadershipHow policy makers can implement reforms for a sustainable financial system: taxonomies
Taxonomies are an essential tool that enable investors to substantiate their sustainability claims. As countries across the globe are at different stages of taxonomy development, the PRI has developed a toolkit to aid policymakers and regulators to achieve more effective and aligned taxonomies.
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WebinarThe Impact Management Platform: managing impact for investments
Join UNEP FI and PRI for an introduction to the Impact Management Platform, its benefits and functionalities to manage the impacts of investments.
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WebinarGetting started in nature, biodiversity and finance
This webinar will introduce how nature is connected to climate change and finance, as well as introducing key concepts and initiatives.
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PodcastFiona Reynolds reflects on tenure as CEO of the PRI
PRI CEO, Fiona Reynolds, has a candid conversation with Chloe Horne, Specialist – Stewardship and Vaishnavi Ravishankar, Senior Specialist – Governance about her nearly decade-long leadership of the organisation, her agenda post-PRI and hopes for the future of the responsible investment industry.
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Blog postWhat do the 2021 PRI Awards tell us about leading responsible investment practice?
By Eilidh Wagstaff, Senior Specialist, Investment Practices, PRI and Toby Belsom, Director of Investment Practices, PRI
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WebinarCOP26 Webinar 6: Industrial Transition to Net Zero
As part of the PRI Digital Conference, the PRI and the LSEG will be co-hosting the sixth and final event in the PRI and LSEG COP26 Investor Action on Climate Series, ‘Industrial Transition to Net Zero - How can business and the investment sector come together to achieve global decarbonisation?’
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WebinarJapan’s Pension System and Sustainability
PRI conducted a survey on the Japanese pension system for half a year.
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WebinarMandatory human rights due diligence: EU policy developments and implications
The importance of mandatory human rights due diligence is gaining momentum in EU policymaking, with the upcoming EU sustainable corporate governance directive and two social Taxonomy reports due from the Platform on Sustainable Finance by the end of the year.
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WebinarAccounting for Climate: assessing climate risk in company financial statements
This webinar will present findings from the analysis of climate risk in company financial reports commissioned by PRI and discuss the implications for future company engagement.
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Blog postSupporting policy makers and regulators to build a sustainable financial system
By Margarita Pirovska, Head of Fiduciary Duty in the 21st Century, PRI, and Fiona Stewart, Lead Financial Sector Specialist, Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation, World Bank
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Thought leadershipHow policy makers can implement reforms for a sustainable financial system
The PRI and the World Bank’s Financial Stability and Integrity Team are working to support government policy makers and regulators in implementing reforms to build a sustainable financial system. This toolkit provides a high-level overview of five foundational sustainable investment policies.
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WebinarInvestment Portfolio Risk for Insurance Companies: The CIO Perspective
In this session, you will hear directly from investment officers of two major Insurance firms on the unique challenges they face, potential increased regulatory scrutiny and how they plan to continue managing resilient and sustainable insurance investment portfolios.
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WebinarDepartment of Labor’s Proposed Rule: Financial Factors in Selecting Plan Investments
This webinar will discuss the Department of Labor’s rule proposal entitled “Financial Factors in Selecting Plan Investments”, its potential impacts on ESG integration, and actions the PRI is taking and encourages signatories to take in response.
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WebinarGermany’s Sustainable Finance Agenda
The German Government has initiated a strategy to make Germany a leading centre for sustainable finance in 2019 and initiated a sustainable finance committee to inform the strategy.
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Blog postThree ways investors can support the Principles for Responsible Banking
By Will Martindale, Director of Policy and Research, the PRI
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WebinarIntroducing the Principles for Responsible Banking
This webinar introduces the Principles for Responsible Banking.
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SEC considering changes to shareholder voting process in the US
The publicly-stated purpose of the November roundtable is to hear from stakeholders on “whether the SEC’s proxy rules should be refined.”
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Focusing on long-term investors in stock exchange innovation
While traditional stock exchange business models can pull revenue from diverse sources depending on the exchange, companies listing on the exchange are often considered the primary client. One disruption playing out in the United States concerns exchanges taking a deeper focus on the needs of institutional investors.
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Innovating stock exchanges to mobilize capital for impact
Traditional stock exchanges are evolving their business practices to find more innovative ways to increase capital flows to sustainable companies and projects through both listed equity and bonds.
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Stock exchange innovation: applications for blockchain
For the past few years, financial institutions have been investing in blockchain technology with the idea that it could reduce the cost and complexity of many of its processes, ranging from payments and settlements to tracking shareholder assets.
