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Focal points

• Decarbonising Transport at Scale — targeting a 100% zero-emission commercial bus fleet by 2035 and elimination of diesel-only trains by 2040, with a 30% reduction in emissions already achieved since the FY2020 baseline
• Driving Economic Growth and Social Mobility — connecting communities to employment, education and essential services via reliable transport networks
• Supporting a Workforce for the Future — over 500 apprenticeships, mental health support programmes and training in emerging technologies such as EV maintenance

Parameters

• Data to: 31 March 2026
• Published: July'26
• Materiality Matrix: None found
• ESG Data Centre: None found — company directs readers to the general Sustainability Reporting Centre for archived reports; no dedicated ESG data page identified

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The First Sentier MUFG Sustainable Investment Institute seeks to commission a comprehensive research report on the investment implications of wildfires and flooding.

Proposed timelines:

• This RFP is issued on 20.08.2026
• Any questions or feedback regarding the brief should be submitted by 25.08.2026
• Answers to any questions will be provided by 28.08.2026
• Proposal should be submitted to the Institute by 01.09.2026 together with availability for a 1 hour call to discuss the proposals in the same week
• Target for notifying the successful tenderer by 08.09.2026

Focal points

• More sustainable brands — 38%+ of net revenue from products meeting sustainability criteria in 2025 (up from 35%; target 50% by 2030); 9% reduction in product carbon footprint vs 2015; 18% reduction in virgin plastic packaging vs 2020
• Healthier planet — 73%+ absolute Scope 1 and 2 GHG reduction vs 2015 baseline (exceeding SBTi target of 65%); 97% renewable electricity across global operations; 8% absolute Scope 3 reduction vs 2015
• Fairer society — 9 million people across 50+ countries positively impacted in 2025; 52%+ management roles held by women; Global Living Wage Certification maintained

Parameters

• Data to: 31 December 2025
• Published: March 2026
• Materiality Matrix: Double materiality assessment updated in 2025 (EFRAG/ESRS-aligned, CSRD readiness from 2027); embedded in governance narrative rather than a discrete matrix chapter
• ESG Data Centre: https://www.reckitt.com/reporting-hub (ESG Data Book, SASB metrics, Basis of Reporting and Assurance Report)

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Focal points

• Decarbonisation and net zero — 68% Scope 1 and 2 emissions reduction vs 2015/16 baseline (exceeding 2025 target of 60%); net zero own operations by 2035; Scope 3 net zero across value chain by 2050
• Sustainable food systems and nature — Little Helps Plan planet commitments covering farmlands, forests, marine, freshwater and climate environments; transition to sustainable protein sources; science-based targets for nature
• Healthier diets, food waste and circularity — 65% of total UK and ROI sales from healthier products (up from 58% in 2019); 99% of UK own-brand packaging recyclable by weight; food waste reduction programmes

Parameters

• Data to: February 2026 (financial year ending February 2026)
• Published: May 2026
• Materiality Matrix: Annual materiality review (Little Helps Plan); details at tescoplc.com/sustainability/our-ambitions-and-approach/little-helps-plan/materiality/
• ESG Data Centre: Sustainability Reporting Hub contains sustainability data, indices and benchmarks

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Focal points

• Net zero greenhouse gas emissions — SBTi-approved target: 50.4% absolute Scope 1, 2 and 3 reduction by 2032 vs 2021 baseline; 89% renewable electricity in 2025; EV fleet transition
• Sustainability-benefit products — 14.8 million tonnes CO₂ saved annually by customers purchasing products sold in 2025; 27 Life Cycle Assessments completed since 2021; eco-design toolkit
• Supply chain sustainability — Supplier Sustainability Portal covering 988 strategic suppliers; 96% sign-up to Supplier Sustainability Code by number; Scope 3 category 1 supplier decarbonisation engagement

Parameters

• Data to: 31 December 2025
• Published: Early 2026
• Materiality Matrix: Double materiality assessment (2024, CSRD readiness) underpins One Planet Strategy refresh; referenced at ~p.61 of Annual Report
• ESG Data Centre: https://www.spiraxgroup.com/en/sustainability/one-planet/downloads-and-reports (GHG methodology, assurance reports, Net Zero Transition Plan, ESG Factbook)

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Focal points

• Climate change and net zero transition — 28% absolute Scope 1 and 2 CO₂e reduction vs 2019 baseline; Net Zero Transition Plan published; first Scope 3 inventory disclosed
• Circular economy and world without waste — 55% recovered fibre input; 70 recovered-fibre facilities; Better Planet Packaging programme; 24% target reduction in waste to landfill by 2030
• Biodiversity and sustainable forestry — 100% FSC/PEFC-certified company-owned forests; TNFD early adopter for FY2026 reporting; biodiversity rated material on both impact and financial dimensions

Parameters

• Data to: 31 December 2025
• Published: 28 April 2026
• Materiality Matrix: pp. 18–19 — double materiality assessment (impact + financial); 11 material topics; guided by ESRS; conducted post July 2024 combination of Smurfit Kappa and WestRock
• ESG Data Centre: https://www.smurfitwestrock.com/sustainability (Online Sustainability Reporting Suite)

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Trump's bizarre forced labour tariffs, horrific wildfires/drought and serious global governance challenges are reminders that ESG has not left the building…it is the building. Now comes the hard work.

Predictions of the ‘Death of ESG’ - pace hundreds of pejorative articles - were deeply wrong; albeit in dramatic ways few could have imagined.

Trump’s body-swerve to base his aggressive, wrong-headed international tariffs ‘strategy’ - struck down variously by the US Supreme Court and International Trade courts - on forced labour might have had some turning to the International Labour Organisation’s modern slavery database, or, god-forbid, to sustainability reports on the issue.

Then again, some seem surprised that Europe, and many other parts of the world, could suffer dangerous heatwaves, drought and fires caused by an El Nino year fuelled by worsening climate conditions, and at a huge price.

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Where the environmental case and investment case have converged for products and services that make AI more energy-efficient

Impax Asset Management has published a short insight on how artificial intelligence development intersects with its Environmental Markets investment framework.

Author Adam Palin sets out why only a portion of the AI buildout qualifies within that taxonomy, and how the firm determines investment eligibility for AI-related exposures.

The piece is framed as a brief explainer aimed at clarifying which elements of the AI infrastructure boom represent genuine environmental-markets opportunities. Read the full article via the link below.

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Adam Palin examines the key sustainability-related themes disrupting the Healthcare sector and their implications across its sub-industries, as part of the firm's broader framework for identifying transition-driven risks and opportunities for investors.

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Examines the potential economic fallout from an anticipated strong El Niño weather event.

The report considers how one of the most powerful El Niño occurrences on record could disrupt global supply chains and commodity markets, adding to inflationary pressures across agricultural and other price-sensitive sectors.

It draws parallels with previous El Niño-driven supply shocks to assess how the resulting effects might propagate through interconnected global markets.

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Warns that rising commodity prices are creating renewed upside risks to food inflation across the UK and Europe.

The report examines how elevated raw-material costs in agricultural markets could feed through into broader consumer price pressures across the two regions.

It sits within Deutsche Bank's wider macro research coverage of inflation risk.

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Shahbano Soomro and Victor Benavides identify three transformative forces over the next one to two years:

• Circular-economy and supply-chain-transparency demands,
• Health consciousness driven by wearables and GLP-1 adoption, and
• AI-enabled personalisation

They map these onto broadline retail, leisure facilities and packaged foods to flag emerging sustainability-related risks and opportunities.

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Addenda Capital has published its 2025 Eco-Social Commercial Mortgages Report, setting out how its Eco-Social Commercial Mortgages Pooled Fund pursues Canadian housing affordability and climate objectives alongside disciplined lending.

Since its November 2021 launch, the fund has delivered annualised gross returns of 6.31% - 243 basis points above its 3.88% benchmark - while financing 33 affordable units, 679 seniors-housing units and 789,702 square feet of sustainable buildings across five themes: affordable housing, green buildings, underrepresented groups, cultural and community facilities, and health and education.

The portfolio is weighted toward multifamily residential (37.7%), office (32.5%) and industrial (16.1%) properties, with financed-emissions intensity tracked at 22.8 tCO2e per $m invested.

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Examines how increasingly capable open-weight AI models are reshaping competitive dynamics in the AI industry.

The report considers what the rise of high-performing open models means for the economics of AI development, enterprise adoption choices, and the strategic positioning of proprietary model providers competing in what it frames as an emerging AI format war.

It forms part of Deutsche Bank Research's broader AI 101 explainer series aimed at giving investors a grounding in the technology's economic and competitive dynamics.

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Mounting fiscal pressure and bipartisan political support for reform are driving a structural shift toward tighter US healthcare cost controls, with managed healthcare companies facing the greatest near-term policy pressure — though with strong mitigation capacity — while biopharma firms face moderate-to-elevated risk with potential spillover into patient access globally.

Healthcare providers face milder exposure, though structural vulnerabilities differ by company type, and investors can differentiate resilient performers by evaluating how well companies manage access- and pricing-related issues.

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