Asset managers

Published: 2026 reporting cycle

Summary: Report focuses heavily on climate, human rights, labour standards and shareholder resolutions, with a semphasis on real-world outcomes and policy change.

Published: March 2026

Summary: including climate, governance, human capital and executive remuneration engagement themes.

Chronos Sustainability was commissioned by the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) to map out the landscape of nature investment opportunities available to institutional investors. The report identifies and analyses opportunities associated with direct investments in natural capital (e.g. biodiversity credits, thematic bonds, outcome‑based bonds, debt‑for‑nature swaps) and investments in corporates addressing nature-related risks and opportunities (e.g. impact funds, thematic equities, sustainability‑linked bonds (SLBs)).

Four insights emerge from this work.

·       Nature is a material financial issue and a source of opportunity 

·       Nature-related financial instruments are at an early stage, but are evolving rapidly

·       New regulations, market standards and guidance are emerging, but gaps remain. For example, many lack consistent regulation, valuation methodologies and robust approaches for measuring and verifying nature outcomes.   

·       Pathways exist to expand credible, scalable and investable nature markets. At present, pipelines remain thin and data, regulations and governance systems are still developing.  However, many of these barriers can be addressed through standardisation, policy alignment, novel mechanisms for blended finance, and more robust monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV).

The research also suggests that, by investing in nature-related opportunities, investors can strengthen portfolio resilience, capture long-term growth, and help shape markets that align with global biodiversity goals. Institutional investors can support nature-related investment opportunities by:  

·       Identifying and allocating capital to high-integrity nature-related opportunities, e.g. through focusing on companies that are significantly reducing nature-related dependencies and nature impact. 

·       Supporting the development and deployment of de-risking and deal structuring mechanisms to help scale the pipeline of opportunities, e.g. blended finance structures, aggregation vehicles and credit enhancement tools. 

·       Providing early-stage development capital and technical assistance to project developers or platforms that support project governance and delivery.  

·       Advocating for mandatory TNFD-aligned corporate disclosure of management of nature-related risks and opportunities.   

·       Advocating for regulatory conditions to scale high-integrity nature markets, including standardisation of metrics and nature valuation approaches.  

Notes

1.      The report, Nature-related Investment Opportunities: Investor Briefing, commissioned by the PRI and prepared by Chronos Sustainability, can be accessed at: https://www.unpri.org/deep-dive?id=nature-related-opportunities-investor-briefing

Published: April 2026

Summary: Covers proxy voting, issuer engagement and sustainability-related dialogue across global portfolios.

Chronos Sustainability has worked with the International Transition Plan Network (ITPN) to produce a major new report: Enhancing Long-Term Value and Resilience: A study of how global investors are using transition plans.

The report examines how institutional investors are using corporate transition plans to assess companies’ long-term value and business resilience through the climate transition.

Based on a survey and interviews with 35 investors representing over US$10 trillion in AUM, the report finds that

·       Transition planning and transition plans are still a relatively new concept.

·       Investors are starting to use transition plans. Their use appears to be most widespread in stewardship (where transition plan information is used to prioritise engagement, structure dialogue with companies, and inform voting decisions) and in their portfolio monitoring and risk management.

·       The use of transition plan data in passive investment and in labelled product design remains limited, with interviewees pointing to the need for broader coverage across sectors and jurisdictions, more decision-useful disclosure, particularly around financial metrics, and greater standardisation, to enhance comparability.

·       Investors are primarily interested in the financial implications of low carbon transition strategies, and are focusing their attention on (a) governance processes, (b) implementation strategies, (c) financial metrics such as capital expenditure, and (d) key assumptions and dependencies.

·       Use in passive investment and labelled product design remains limited, with a number of those interviewed pointing to the need for broader coverage across sectors and jurisdictions, more decision-useful disclosure, particularly around financial metrics, and greater standardisation, to enhance comparability.

Notes

·       The report, Enhancing Long-Term Value and Resilience: A Study of How Global Investors are Using Transition Plans, is available at: https://itpn.global/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/ITPN-Enhancing-Long-Term-Value-and-Resilience-May-2026.pdf

·       The International Transition Plan Network (ITPN) was launched at COP29 to support the development of global norms for private sector climate transition plans and drive climate policies that leverage the full potential of these plans.

Published: 23 April 2026

Summary: Includes sustainability reporting covering telecoms infrastructure, construction and energy activities. The sustainability statement addresses decarbonisation, workforce development, responsible procurement and climate resilience across the group's businesses.

Published: March 2026

Summary: ASML's integrated sustainability reporting covers semiconductor supply-chain resilience, carbon reduction, energy efficiency of chip manufacturing equipment and workforce development.

Published: 6 March 2026

Summary: Nokia's CSRD-aligned sustainability statement covers climate, circularity, supply-chain management, digital inclusion and responsible business practices. The report highlights reductions in Scope 1–3 emissions, renewable electricity usage and supplier emissions performance.

See also:

Report: People & Planet Impact Report 2025
Published: available alongside 2026 reporting cycle

Summary: Complements the formal Sustainability Statement with a more narrative discussion of connectivity, digital inclusion, climate action and supply-chain responsibility.

The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) launched its first two sustainability-related standards in June 2023, effective for annual reporting periods on or after Jan. 1, 2024.

The standards could form the basis of a consistent sustainability disclosure framework for companies and investors around the world. In this quarterly report, we bring you the latest global developments in the uptake of the ISSB’s standards.

Cleantech growth expectations remain on a robust trajectory in 2026, even as markets such as the US and EU roll back sustainability policies from the first half of the 2020’s.

The sheer scale of additions to S&P Global’s Clean Power Project Pipeline Tracker in January 2026 — 165 gigawatts — offers a counterpoint to concerns about sector growth that emerged as the US has deployed policy tools to rein in the expansion of renewables and the EU has curbed sustainability ambitions for its energy sector.

Among cleantech options, battery energy storage systems (BESS) are overtaking solar PV as the segment outperformer. Solar PV will still account for the lion’s share. However, while the planned and proposed project pipeline for solar PV out to 2040 represents just under six times existing capacity, for BESS, that multiple is nearly 12.

The rapid expansion of AI-driven data centers is putting unprecedented pressure on energy supply, emissions and water availability. At the start of 2026, S&P Global named AI and data center growth as a top sustainability trend to watch, and it was a dominant theme at both Climate Week Zurich and CERAWeek 2026 in Houston, where the conference title was “Convergence and Competition.”

In this episode of the All Things Sustainable podcast, we talk to PepsiCo to understand how one of the world’s biggest food and beverage companies is building resilient food systems.

The Iran war has repriced geopolitical risk across assets. Given the Strait of Hormuz’s central role in global energy flows, disruption risks have increased the likelihood of higher energy prices and a tougher inflation backdrop. Europe’s higher dependence on imported energy amplifies downside growth risks and relative equity underperformance.

In a State Street Investment Management survey of EMEA-based asset owners in May 2025,  53 per cent of respondents said they plan to increase allocations to nature- and/or biodiversity-related investments over the next two years. Of respondents who currently integrate nature and biodiversity objectives in their investment process, 42 per cent noted a lack of reliable and/or scalable data as one of their top three challenges.

Previous papers in this series addressed nature and biodiversity from two perspectives. The first described nature as an asset that underpins economic activity across many sectors. The second outlined different objectives investors may have when integrating nature in portfolios, including managing nature-related dependency risks and identifying investment opportunities tied to nature and biodiversity.

This paper reviews the current state of nature-related data for investors in public markets, the types of data available, and the investment objectives they may address in the portfolio construction process. It also outlines current limitations and recent developments in the data landscape.

The AI buildout is revealing capacity constraints in many key inputs, with power being one of the most strained.

BlackRock technology investors see the system adjusting across multiple time horizons but suggest a more dynamic environment requires shifting from a broad AI lens to more precise stock selection in the theme.

Infrastructure equities can be play the role of “defensive engine” inside a diversified portfolio: they provide exposure to essential services—keeping the lights on, clean water flowing, goods and people moving, and data connected—often supported by resilient demand, predictable cashflows and above-average income potential.

Shariah compliance doesn’t remove the infrastructure opportunity; it refines it. Applying Shariah screens reduces the eligible universe, but it also reshapes sector and regional exposures—creating a distinct subset of infrastructure equities with different macro sensitivities. For Islamic multi-asset portfolios—where diversification can be constrained and equity benchmarks can be technology-heavy—Islamic listed infrastructure equities can help fill a meaningful gap.

Despite apparent headwinds, global energy transition investment hit a record $2.3trn in 2025, up 8% YoY. Amid this, one of the key challenges for companies and investors is measuring progress. How can one separate headlines from on-the-ground data and get a clear picture of global transition strategy in 2026?

Jefferies’ Sustainability & Transition Team set out to address that question in a new note, Energy Transition Download: Practical Tools to Track Macro, Sector & Companies. The resource aggregates the analytical tools and datasets most useful for understanding the transition and guiding thinking across the investor community.

Our view 

• Employee share ownership can create long-term value for companies, shareholders, employees and society.
• Plans work best when they are offered broadly across the workforce, transparent in design, and complementary to wages. 

Key takeaways.

• Switzerland holds a 14 June referendum from a position of macroeconomic strength, with steady growth, low inflation and limited near-term spillovers from geopolitical shocks
• The initiative proposes capping the Swiss population at 10 million. We believe its approval would introduce uncertainty around long-term growth by challenging labour market openness and relations with the European Union 
• Any direct economic impact would depend on implementation, but the longer-term risks to potential growth and competitiveness would be meaningful
• For investors, near term market effects should be muted, but domestic focused Swiss equities could face a decline in valuations as a result of higher political risk, while the Swiss franc’s fundamentals will remain supportive. 

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Transition plans are becoming pivotal tools for investors, lenders and regulators to assess entities’ decarbonisation strategies, climate risk management and long-term value creation, Sustainable Fitch says in a new report. Their role is expanding beyond climate target disclosure into a broader framework supporting capital allocation, risk management and market engagement.

Regulation is driving adoption, particularly in Europe, where requirements are generally more established, while requirements are more stringent for financial institutions than for non-financial corporates, reflecting supervisors’ growing focus on transition-related risks. These rules are creating ripple effects across the real economy as banks and investors increasingly assess counterparties’ transition-related disclosures and strategies.

Although transition planning frameworks vary in detail, Sustainable Fitch found strong alignment across mainstream guidance on core elements. These include transition ambition and objectives, implementation actions and governance, while certain indicators, such as emissions targets, reporting and capex, tend to be more comparable across entities.

Sustainable Fitch’s Transition Assessment of nearly 40 entities shows most have robust absolute Scope 1 and 2 emissions targets and all allocate at least some investment to transition activities. However, Scope 3 commitments and reporting remain uneven, and several entities generate little or no revenue from transition-related activities, pointing to slow business model transformation.

New guidance for transition-labelled bonds and loans, alongside the proposed transition fund category under SFDR 2.0, is likely to reinforce the importance of credible transition plans. For investors, these plans can support portfolio construction, issuer engagement and differentiation between transition leaders and laggards.

While there has been much written about Elon Musk’s SpaceX flouting traditional good corporate governance conventions in its planned IPO, it is noteworthy to compare how different it is to what Tesla Inc. (née Tesla Motors) looked like when it went public. Investors looking for a repeat of Tesla’s phenomenal stock performance will not have the same board structure or experience to guide it. And as ambitious as Musk’s potential $1 trillion pay package is for goals of colonizing Mars and extraterrestrial data centers, the market capitalization target portion over 15 years is only about 4x its $1.75-$2 trillion planned IPO price, a far cry from the nearly 400x Tesla has achieved since its 2010 listing.

One does not need fancy AI tools to uncover the Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) governance practices that raise concerns for at least some investors. Issues like dual class shares, approximately 85% voting rights vested with Musk including on unrealized share awards, controlled company status, Texas domicile and its more restrictive shareholder rights compared to Delaware, and an astronomical pay package.

In contrast, the fledgling Tesla with faster growth and a clearer addressable market had a mostly fairly-aligned board of directors to the company’s strategy and generally good governance practices designed to appeal to investors. While retrospectively one can criticize the oversight and control the Tesla board has exercised, the company had a range of experience to potentially help steer the company’s electric vehicle growth ambitions.

Whilst Altarea set to put its climate plan to a shareholder vote on 4 June, the FIR, in collaboration with ADEME, the World Benchmarking Alliance and the Ethos Foundation, provides an analysis of the plan.

The analysis is divided in two parts:

• the first assesses the plan’s transparency using the FIR methodology, whilst
• the second evaluates the company’s performance using ADEME’s ACT methodology.

To find out about the company’s results, how they compare with last year’s figures, and areas for improvement, please take a look at its analysis sheet.

ESG reporting has never been more detailed — yet one simple question is often surprisingly hard to answer: did sustainable products and services actually sell, gain market share and improve profitability?

In a new article, I explore how sustainability disclosure may have drifted into an “indicator arms race”, where investors can easily find hundreds of pages of carbon metrics and governance data, but struggle to identify whether companies are genuinely winning commercially through cleaner products and services.

The piece also examines whether parts of the ESG market have become overly focused on low-carbon portfolio construction rather than identifying the businesses truly driving the transition economy.

A handful of companies such as Fairphone are reporting sustainability in a way that investors can understand. They focus on products, customers and outcomes rather than simply operational footprints. The question is why more companies do not do the same. 

Fairphone's reports discuss device longevity, repair rates, circular materials and customer adoption. In other words, they attempt to answer the question: did anyone buy the green fridge? Most sustainability reports still do not.

Published: 2026 reporting cycle

Summary: Covers engagement activity, stewardship priorities, proxy voting and ESG integration across equities and fixed income portfolios. Includes reporting aligned with UK Stewardship Code expectations.

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Published: March 2026

Summary: LGIM’s stewardship report details shareholder voting, climate engagement, executive pay interventions and nature-risk priorities. Strong focus on real-world outcomes and transition alignment across listed holdings.

Published: April 2026

Summary: Schroders’ annual stewardship report covers voting, company engagement, climate transition dialogue and biodiversity-related escalation activity across global portfolios. Includes detailed case studies on governance and decarbonisation engagement.

Published: 19 February 2026

What’s included:

• Sustainability Fact Book 2025
• Updated Scope 1–3 emissions disclosures
• Climate, water, tailings and biodiversity reporting
• Community and Indigenous engagement disclosures
• Critical minerals / decarbonisation strategy updates

Report links:

• Rio Tinto Reports Hub
• Rio Tinto Sustainability Reporting

Published: 27 April 2026

Summary: Covers decarbonisation strategy, SAF adoption, fleet efficiency and employee/social initiatives across Air China’s operations. Includes governance and climate-risk disclosures aligned with broader aviation transition trends.

Published: 19 March 2026

Summary: Integrated report detailing operational emissions, supply-chain sustainability, circularity initiatives and workforce metrics. Includes CSRD-style sustainability disclosures and climate transition progress.

Published: 23 April 2026

Summary: Ivanhoe’s ninth annual sustainability report covers emissions reduction, community engagement, biodiversity and critical minerals production across its African mining operations. Strong focus on copper’s role in electrification and energy transition supply chains.

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Impact bonds support a wide range of outcomes, from financing climate solutions to supporting social programmes and sustainable development. These bonds, which encompass labelled green, social and sustainability (GSS) bonds[note1], have become an increasingly important mechanism for enabling investors to direct capital towards their environmental and social objectives. 

By the end of 2025, the total outstanding global GSS bond market had reached $5.32trn, comprising $3.3trn in green bonds, $827bn in social bonds and $1.2trn in sustainability bonds. For many investors, impact bonds are now a core component of global fixed income portfolios.

As impact bond issuance accelerates, investors face growing challenges around transparency and comparability across this rapidly expanding market. In this FTSE Russell Insight, we examine key market trends and how the FTSE Impact Bond Index Series provides comprehensive, standards-aligned coverage of this important fixed income market segment.

Key takeaways:

• The current energy shock makes energy transition an energy security and economic competitiveness priority.
• Whilst the short-term response to the energy shock may be more fossil fuels, the medium to longer term response is likely to be more energy transition. We’ve seen similar in the past, in the 1970s energy shocks, and it’s already happening in numerous countries.
• The infrastructure to enable an acceleration in the energy transition has evolved significantly, even compared to 2022. The maturity, capacity and economics of renewable energy, energy efficiency and electrification technologies is now highly advanced.

A guide to interpreting and using financed emissions in a data sparse environment

Financial institutions are exposed to climate risk indirectly through the companies and projects they finance, linking their portfolios to real‑economy emissions.

Financed emissions, classified as part of Scope 3, account on average for 97% of a financial institution’s total greenhouse gas emissions, yet in practice remain difficult to interpret due to limited and uneven data.

Although still developing as a metric, financed emissions serve as a useful lens for understanding historical emissions and climate-related risk, particularly when combined with complementary datasets.

This report explores how financed emissions data can be made more useful in practice. We find that, when treated as a structured analytical framework rather than a single headline figure, financed emissions can provide genuinely valuable insight into how capital interacts with the low‑carbon transition.

Biodiversity loss as a source of financial risk and dependency

Biodiversity—the variability among living organisms, including between and within species and ecosystems—is increasingly recognised as financially material, yet it remains difficult to assess in investment portfolios.

Biodiversity matters for investors because it underpins economic activity and affects corporate cash flows. Firms depend on living systems for inputs, production stability and the provision of ecosystem services such as water regulation, soil fertility and climate buffering. If those systems degrade, financial risks emerge through higher operating costs, supply chain disruptions, asset impairments, regulatory exposure and shifts in consumer and investor sentiment.

... includes ...

• Biodiversity loss as a source of financial risk and dependency
• Limitations of current biodiversity measurement approaches
• How emerging tools can be used to make better biodiversity-informed decisions
• Practical next steps for investors and researchers

A new wave of consolidation is sweeping through the mining industry. Multi-billion-dollar proposals, from Anglo American’s approach to Teck Resources to the mooted tie-up between Rio Tinto and Glencore, reflect a sector once again turning to dealmaking. At first glance, this may appear familiar. Mining has long moved in cycles, with mergers typically following commodity booms. However, this cycle looks different.

The current surge in M&A is being driven less by short-term price dynamics than by deeper structural forces. The energy transition is accelerating demand for critical minerals. At the same time, mineral deposits are becoming harder to exploit and environmental constraints are tightening. Together, these pressures are reshaping the economics of extraction and in turn, the logic of consolidation.

In this changing landscape, scale alone is no longer sufficient. Increasingly, the decisive factor is how efficiently resources can be produced.

... includes ...

• A Structural Shift, Not a Cycle
• The Rising Cost of Compliance
• Why Efficiency Is Becoming the Deciding Factor
• A New Lens for Investors
• The Bottom Line

Blogpost by Chris Costello, EDF Chief Economist

For too long, we’ve treated economic forces as enemies of the environment. I get it; climate change is a consequence of economic activity. But economic growth also alleviates poverty, improves health and longevity, and inspires innovation. There’s no reason why we can’t harness economic incentives as a driver for climate action, too.

To do that effectively and responsibly, we need to “Money Ball” climate change. That means analyzing what works and what doesn’t and accelerating the solutions that deliver. I believe that, at its heart, climate change is a math problem: a 53 gigaton (GT) math problem.

... includes ...

• Scale: Compliance carbon pricing to reliably drive economy-wide change
• Supply: Bringing nature into compliance markets to lock down climate pollution
• Speed: Pricing super pollutants to stave off the most immediate climate and economic impacts
• The economic case for impact

'Disaster insurance is breaking at a moment of crucial need. As climate change intensifies extreme weather, we’re seeing big shifts in the cost and availability of property insurance.

From soaring premiums to fewer options for homeowners, here are a few ways we’re feeling the impact across the United States.'

Recent analyses show that during extreme weather events, batteries, wind and solar power are more reliable sources of electricity than power plants that run on coal or gas.

Coal power plants were up to 13 times more likely to fail than wind farms during recent winter storms.

While gas prices skyrocketed, offshore wind power saved New England electricity customers $2 million a day during a December 2025 cold snap.

Big batteries even out the flow of clean energy and improve reliability. Today, utilities have enough battery storage to replace about 8% of the nation’s expensive gas peaker plants.

Artificial intelligence unknowns are creating stress in the market, and we don’t see that ending any time soon. For long-term investors, these stressors can create opportunities.

• Canadian sustainable fund assets reached a record CAD 67 billion in 2025 (+18% YoY). 
• Flows were highly concentrated: the top ten funds brought in CAD 4 billion, while the rest lost CAD 2.9 billion. 
• Exclusionary screening was the most common sustainable investing approach. 

European inflows return as global ESG demand stabilizes

Global sustainable fund flows turned positive in the first quarter of 2026, recording an estimated USD 3.5 billion in net inflows, following USD 27 billion in outflows in Q4 2025.

The turnaround was driven by a sharp rebound in Europe, where sustainable funds attracted more than USD 9 billion in net new money, despite ongoing geopolitical and regulatory uncertainty.

Whilst Icade set to put its climate plan to a shareholder vote on 10 June, the FIR, in collaboration with ADEME, the World Benchmarking Alliance and the Ethos Foundation, provides an analysis of the plan.

The analysis is divided in two parts:

• the first assesses the plan’s transparency using the FIR methodology, whilst
• the second evaluates the company’s performance using ADEME’s ACT methodology.

To find out about the company’s results, how they compare with last year’s figures, and areas for improvement, please take a look at its analysis sheet.

Key Points:

• The amended EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) is now finalized and preserves its core requirement: companies must conduct risk-based human rights and environmental due diligence across their value chains. 

• Companies can expect requirements to cascade through value chains, even if they are not directly in scope, and will need to strengthen governance, issue prioritization, and stakeholder engagement. 

• BSR shares areas of strategic adjustment for companies and practical steps to prepare for implementation by 2029.

Key points

• The crisis in Iran is not a temporary shock but a systemic increase in volatility. Even if the conflict de-escalates, elevated risk, higher costs, and ongoing disruption to trade and energy systems are likely to endure, reshaping how companies plan and invest.
• Human rights risks are on the rise, with significant operational consequences. Disruptions to energy, food, and supply chains are increasing risks for workers and communities, ranging from income loss to unsafe working conditions, making real-time human rights due diligence essential for maintaining stable operations.
• The crisis may accelerate the energy transition, while also making it more complex. Electrification and renewables are gaining urgency as tools for resilience, but inflation, supply chain constraints, and new dependencies (e.g. on critical minerals and clean tech) may complicate execution.
• Global economic integration is under growing strain—but hard to escape. The crisis is exposing the vulnerabilities of deep economic interdependence, even as companies and countries remain reliant on global systems they cannot easily replace.
• Sustainability is increasingly core to business resilience. From energy to supply chains to the workforce, a sustainability lens is critical to managing risk, maintaining operations, and navigating uncertainty.

... includes ...

• Three Scenarios for What Comes Next
• Implications for Business and Sustainability

Key points 

• With 2025 climate targets closing and 2030 milestones ahead, many companies are facing mixed progress, rising external pressures, and increased internal scrutiny around the value and feasibility of their climate strategies. 
• The targets set today will shape a critical decade of delivery. When carefully designed and calibrated, climate targets can protect and create shareholder value, reduce legal and operational risks, and build resilience.   
• In BSR’s latest edition of Insights+, the Climate and Nature team explores current headwinds, how members are responding, and actions businesses can take in a rapidly evolving landscape.

... includes ...

• Climate Targets at a Crossroads
• Current Headwinds for Climate Targets
• Future-Proofing Climate Targets in a Shifting Landscape

Investor demand for credit strategies that support the climate transition remains resilient, even as policy signals shift and markets reprice risk.

At the same time, the transition lens is broadening: decarbonization is increasingly linked to nature outcomes, as the energy transition’s footprint on land, water and critical minerals creates new material risks and constraints.

Over the past 12 months, it has become increasingly evident that a rebalancing is underway among large asset allocators as they reassess the regional diversification of their portfolios.

Summary

• While the US faces headwinds, European credit markets remain resilient
• High valuations and concentration in the US make Europe’s equities attractive
• Europe’s broad opportunity set favors systematic, multi-factor stock selection

Editor's note - makes reference to green sovereigns

Over the past 12 months, a shift has begun to take shape among large asset allocators, with exposure to emerging markets assets seen as increasingly attractive for long-term investors.

Summary

• Emerging markets are central to global growth
• EM equities remain at a discount to global markets
• EM bond yields are attractive given robust macro backdrop

Editor's note - references ESG risks

The Investment Sustainability Solutions Team (ISST) is a multidisciplinary group of sustainable investment professionals specialising in sustainability data and research, stewardship and engagement, and sustainability policy and reporting. The team supports investment teams and their clients by helping them consider and integrate sustainability within the investment process, partnering closely with Investment Risk, Compliance, Technology, and Product to enable rigorous, data-driven investment decision-making. ISST operates as a highly collaborative, cross-functional group within Franklin Templeton’s global platform, offering an environment that values intellectual curiosity, partnership with portfolio managers, and continued development across evolving sustainability priorities.

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We are seeking an experienced Senior Sustainability Consultant to play a key role in growing our ESG consultancy offering.  Working closely with our UK and international sustainability specialists you will support business development, strengthen our market presence, and promote our innovative sustainability services. The role is a blend of technical ESG expertise, client relationship and project management, providing crucial support to investors, asset managers, and corporate occupiers as they navigate regulatory demands, investor expectations, and operational performance goals

In your role as Senior Responsible Investment Associate, you will make a meaningful and valued contribution from the outset. This role will provide a great opportunity to support the delivery of PMG’s Responsible Investment strategy, ensuring consistent, efficient and high-quality execution across PMG asset classes and mandates. The successful candidate will bridge the gap between technical RI expertise and practical, value creation applications within private markets.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape and embed a new Sustainability Disclosure Oversight capability within Operations, tasked with providing a holistic review over global sustainability entity-level disclosures.

This role will ensure the accuracy, consistency, and alignment of Vanguard's sustainability disclosures; reviewing, benchmarking, and enhancing ESG content across frameworks and geographies. You'll challenge ESG data validation, conduct external comparisons, and drive continuous improvement to ensure our disclosures are clear, credible, and consistent.

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This is a Fixed Term Contract opportunity

Can be based in UK, South Africa, Chile, Peru, Brazil

The S&T Platform Strategy & Governance team is seeking an Associate in EMEA to support sustainability strategy, S&T product ideation, market intelligence, and governance activities across the S&T platform. The role sits at the intersection of sustainable product strategy, competitor and industry monitoring, platform analytics, and regulatory‑driven initiatives, with exposure to multiple stakeholders and cross‑functional strategic projects within GPS and BlackRock more broadly.

The Sustainability & Impact Client Solutions team mobilizes the full range of sustainability insights, advisory services and investment solutions across our client segments and asset classes (Publics Markets Investing and GS Alternatives, External Investing Group). We collaborate with sustainability teams across the division and firm to deliver the breadth and depth of our sustainability capabilities to our clients. We are seeking an associate to join the team in NYC to fill a unique role focused on developing differentiated insights on leading edge topics on sustainable investing and better serving our clients with content-rich advisory services. This role will work closely with our global team, in addition to working with our Institutional sales teams to deliver client solutions that focus on Sustainability and Impact Investing across public and private markets.  In addition, this role will work with various investment teams to support investment product development and broader delivery of our capabilities across different asset classes and across different regions.

As a Sustainability Analyst, you will play an active role in advancing Broadridge’s sustainability initiatives, contributing to the company’s progress toward its near-term and net-zero emissions reduction goals. In this role, you will manage data collection, analysis, and reporting tasks, support supplier engagement activities, and contribute to projects that advance our environmental commitments. This position provides hands-on experience in corporate sustainability, greenhouse gas (GHG) measurement, and sustainable supply chain management, while offering opportunities to learn from and collaborate with experienced sustainability professionals.

Please be aware that interviews are provisionally scheduled to take place during the week commencing 18th May 2026. Applications received after this date may not be considered but will be added to our talent pool for future opportunities, subject to your consent.

LGPS Central (LGPSC) Ltd is the FCA regulated asset manager for eight local authority pension funds across the Midlands.

Location Hybrid · London, UK

Team - Ri Solutions

Seniority - Junior

Closing: 11:59pm, 3rd May 2026 BST

This responsibility spans all factor, thematic, cap-weighted and sustainability & climate Indexes

The Director of Communications provides senior strategic communications leadership for PRI, using communications as a deliberate lever to reinforce PRI’s value, credibility and coherence with signatories and external stakeholders. The role shapes the external narrative, protects and enhances reputation, and translates complex technical and policy work into clear, decision‑useful messages that strengthen the enabling environment for responsible investment.

Responsible Investment Manager, RI Markets - OCEANIA (Close 3 May)

Director, EMEA - RI Markets (Close 19 Apr)

12month Fixed Term Contract

IFM Investors is a global asset manager, founded and owned by pension funds, with capabilities in infrastructure equity and debt, private equity, private credit, real estate and listed equities. 

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to work in ESG Reporting. There is an increasing drive to promote transparency and comparability of ESG reporting across organisations to support sustainable investment decisions and progressive agendas in this space.  This includes the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which is a new reporting requirement covering the full breadth of ESG with a large number of disclosure requirements alongside the EU Taxonomy which assesses the sustainability credentials of a company’s financials.

Job Title: ESG Credit Analyst

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: London

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 13th April 2026

We have an opportunity for an ESG Credit Analyst to join the Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) Credit team on a permanent basis.

The role focuses on sustainable credit research and ESG integration across a range of sectors and offers opportunities for interaction with stakeholders across the wider business, as well as external clients and consultants.

You’ll join a collaborative and inclusive team, with significant opportunity for development and career progression.

New York, New York, United States • Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Sustainability Investments Manager - 
Purchase, New York; Chicago, Illinois; Plano, Texas

Within this role, you will be undertaking high-quality and insightful ESG research, risk advice, stewardship and other activities that make a decisive contribution to a range of asset classes and themes. By working with initiative and in collaboration with colleagues from across the business and at all levels, these actions help to secure members’ futures by identifying and managing the ESG risks and opportunities that matter most to financial outcomes for members. A key part of your role will be ensuring our ESG risk advice on public and private investments, both managed internally and by external asset managers, is evidence-based and impactful.

The team is looking for a dynamic, engaged professional to support cross-functional reporting initiatives and carbon reduction activities. The role includes supporting the operations and integration of the team and working with internal colleagues at all levels and external stakeholders to advance the team’s overall impact. This role is ideal for someone who excels at coordination, stakeholder communication, and process improvement.

The role is accountable for the implementation, ongoing development and effective delivery of the PPF’s Stewardship Strategy, supporting the management of investment risks through engagement and voting and contributing to the achievement of sustainable long-term investment return across the Fund.

This role offers a genuine opportunity for a candidate who is passionate about sustainability, climate change and the transformation of the investment industry in a way that is additive across the value chain for the business.