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 [...]
GUEST EXPECTATIONS AND SUSTAINABILITY: CAN SUSTAINABLE PRACTICE BOOST THE HOSPITALITY EXPERIENCE? April 30, 2024 | Sponsored A new study from FuturePlus and Relative Insight, based on 130,000 hotels worldwide reported that at least 6.2% were certified with some form of sustainability certification scheme. Indeed, social, economic, and environmental sustainability concerns have created demand across numerous industries for products and services that can work towards such sustainable goals. Do sustainable practices, however, [...]
The Notebook: Macron’s Olympian swim is good PR, but the water crisis needs serious attention April 29, 2024 Kate Elliot, head of sustainable research at Greenbank Investments, takes the Notebook pen to tell us why the water crisis is so urgent.
ESG Future Growth Forum Launches To Help Firms Balance Commercial and Sustainable Growth April 24, 2024 | Sponsored The ESG Future Growth Forum 2024, held at the prestigious X+Why venue on Colmore Row, Birmingham, UK, successfully concluded its inaugural event on Wednesday, April 10th. Bringing together leaders from various sectors including business, professional services, and finance, the forum served as a pivotal platform for executives committed to driving commercial success while prioritising ESG [...]
Weapons investing is ‘ethical’, says Sunak. Is he right? April 24, 2024 Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has defended the private sector investing in the weapons industry as "ethical", as an argument rages over whether sustainable investing can align with the global war industry.