Vemi Ventures Celebrates Milestone Achievements with Move May 15, 2024 | Sponsored Vemi Ventures, a new and growing Islamic and Ethical finance firm, celebrated its move into new offices in the prestigious heart of the City. The new custom-designed and trendy offices will be home to the growing team of now almost 50 employees. According to Hasan Raza,Vemi Ventures Group CEO, this move will hopefully “create an [...]
Social Impact 101 with Electronic Arts: Inspiring the Next Generation Through the Art of Gaming May 15, 2024 | Sponsored Welcome to the Social Impact 101 series by EVERFI from Blackbaud, where businesses and their leaders across the UK – and overseas – talk about how their social impact programmes are supporting overall business objectives and making a positive difference to the lives of young people all over the UK, and beyond… Each edition of [...]
The Growing Risks Of Deep-Sea Mining May 10, 2024 | Sponsored There is growing interest in deep-sea mining from both sides of the aisle – ardent defenders who believe it can meet the world’s pressing need for critical minerals and others who agree that it might do irrevocable damage to marine ecosystems and ocean health. From the activist lens, SIGWATCH data shows that campaigning on deep-sea mining has [...]
Unlocking potential: A call to action for Social Mobility May 9, 2024 | Sponsored The macro challenge: worsening global income inequality We have an income inequality crisis and the trend is worsening. Income inequality, that is the unequal distribution of income throughout a population, has become a ubiquitous challenge on a global scale; it is one of the Social Megatrends in the realm of ESG and sustainability. The UK [...]
Barclays under fire from shareholders on fracking funding May 9, 2024 Barclays has come under fire from its shareholders, including the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF), for providing financial support to fracking companies.
Why an Aegon sustainable manager is buying bonds in polluting companies May 7, 2024 Rory Sandilands, manager of the Aegon Global Climate Transition fund, is pushing to make companies emit less by buying their bonds.
Woodside Energy: a Shareholder Activism Milestone May 3, 2024 | Sponsored Written by Integrum ESG Analyst Neha Kandwal For most people, the 24th of April 2024 may have been a day like any other, but for some, it marked a landmark event in the history of shareholder engagement. Engagement is the third most prevalent ESG strategy tailing behind ESG integration and negative screening. Despite being considered a [...]
The genetic dismantling of Salmo salar May 3, 2024 | Sponsored Written by Integrum ESG Analyst Jack Morphet Bakkafrost, a salmon farming company, disclosed a large-scale escape of 251,344 fish from their nets in the Faroe Islands during an extreme weather incident in their most recent integrated report. While the transparent disclosure is positive, we must look closer into this biological impact via an ESG lens, [...]
The likely impact of the FCA Anti-Greenwashing Rule May 3, 2024 | Sponsored The FCA has finalised its guidance on the Anti-Greenwashing Rule. You can read the full document yourself here. This applies to all firms communicating in respect of a financial product or service’s sustainabilitycharacteristics, to persons in the UK – and it comes into legal effect in 5 weeks’ time. The guidance makes it very clear [...]
Palestine Protest: Students, Corporates & Where it’s Going May 2, 2024 | Sponsored A Pro-Palestine protest has hit university campuses across the U.S., including Columbia, NYU, Harvard Law, Yale, Emory, Georgia Tech, University of Texas, Washington, and Michigan among others. This comes after similar student protests called for the Canadian Big 5 Banks to divest from Elbit Systems last month. Activist campaigning has skyrocketed following the events of [...]