NGOs
The NGO spectrum ranges from direct-action headline-seeking campaigners at one end to cerebral policy wonks at the other. While both are essential for the broader processes of change, the SRI community has (unsurprisingly!) found it easier to engage with the policy wonks. This is because most SRI engagement with companies takes place within a trusted relationship and behind closed doors using the shared interest of owners and executives as the point of leverage.
Over a long(ish) period of trial and error, NGOs have found that SRI investors can sometimes be an effective channel for NGOs to promote corporate change, but often are not.
The SRI industry is not one of the primary stakeholders or communications targets for NGOs (as their attention is more normally directed towards the political, commercial or civil spheres). However, it can be incrementally useful to them to promote discussion of their ideas and objectives within the investment sphere and to receive reciprocal feedback on the interest of capital markets in their activity. NGOs can rarely justify the cost of maintaining their own SRI communications programme and therefore need to ensure that the engagement that they do undertake is as efficient and targeted as possible.
Advice on this is contained within our SRI-Dynamics paper:
- Engaging SRI: top tips - (coming soon) which outlines to industry outsiders how to shape and communicate social and environmental news and research in a way that maximises its value to the SRI industry
SRI-Connect wishes to encourage greater NGO participation within sustainable investment because we welcome the information, insights, research and perspectives that this sector can bring to the investment debate.
However, primarily SRI-Connect is a space for trusted information exchange, research and communication between investors, research providers and companies. We, therefore, do not want the site to be used as a weapon in any campaigning arsenals.
Accordingly, we are selective about which NGOs we allow to participate in the network and asks all NGOs to respect the purpose of the site.
Build profile, distribute research, share ideas
NGOs can:
- Use Market Buzz to raise the profile of their research and share their opinions with investors and analysts (About Market Buzz | Post research & reports)
- Use the Directory to highlight their organisational and individual capabilities and interests (About Directory | Update your organisation's profile | Update your personal profile)
- Advertise events (About Events | All events)
- Monitor the developing profile of their firm and research with sustainable investment industry
- Response to requests for research made via the Research Marketplace
Learn & interact
NGOs can:
- Receive research that matches their areas of focus (About Market Buzz | View the latest buzz)
- Learn about the dynamics of the sustainable investment industry (SRI Primer | Ecology of SRI | Trends & opinion)
- Join discussions (All Discussion Groups)
- Make connections & send messages
Other
... and like all members of the network, they can:
- Careers, skills & jobs: Employ others and develop their own skills & careers
- People & networks: Network with, follow and engage with others
Note
These special conditions govern the access of NGOs to SRI-Connect
Individuals 50 of 5,860 results
Organisations 50 of 8,171 results
Buzzes 50 of 13,796 results
Renault: Universal Registration Document 2024
Renault: Universal Registration Document 2024
(https://assets.renaultgroup.com/uploads/2025/03/Renault_URD_2024_EN.pdf)
Includes sustainable development report
HSBC: Integrated Annual Report & Accounts 2024
HSBC: Integrated Annual Report & Accounts 2024
(https://www.sri-connect.com/market-buzz/view-buzz/?view=article&catid=118&id=39312)
HSBC: Integrated Annual Report & Accounts 2024
Carbon Tracker: TotalEnergies - Company Profile
Carbon Tracker: TotalEnergies - Company Profile
(https://carbontracker.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CompanyProfile_TotalEnergies_2025-05.pdf)
Energy Transition Response Assessment
• Company is now targeting 3%/y growth through 2030–mainly via LNG—despite claims of being “most committed” to the energy transition among the majors
• Recently approved $2bn in 2 projects incompatible with even a slow-paced transition scenario
• Significant midstream & downstream activities (esp. refining & chemicals) expose company to risk of revenue loss, earlier-than-expected asset closures, etc. as demand for oil & gas is substituted
3 key questions for investors to ask:
• Key question 1: What pace of energy transition is the company betting on through 2040 and 2050?
• Key question 2: Why does the company believe there will be sufficient demand for output from new LNG projects?
• Key question 3: What are the anticipated impacts of the company’s forecasted commodity prices on midstream, downstream, and trading revenues?
Climate Impact Assessment
• Company’s capex plans, production plans, and emissions targets are not Paris-aligned: - 33% of 5-year planned capex is now allocated to new oil & gas projects (up from 30% previously)—counter to IEA’s NZE (1.5°C) scenario
• “Low-carbon” energies segment includes gas-based power, which cannot credibly be considered low-carbon
• Advocates/lobbies for continued role of fossil gas, despite 2050 carbon neutrality ambition
3 key questions for investors to ask:
• Key question 1: How does the company reconcile its medium-term oil & gas growth strategy with its 2050 carbon neutrality ambition?
• Key question 2: How is “low-carbon” defined by company?
• Key question 3: Why does the company advocate/lobby for the continued role of fossil gas, considering its high GHG emissions and the company’s carbon neutrality goal?
Carbon Tracker: Exxon Mobil - Company Profile
Carbon Tracker: Exxon Mobil - Company Profile
(https://carbontracker.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CompanyProfile_ExxonMobil_2025-05.pdf)
Energy Transition Response Assessment
• ExxonMobil seems to be planning for a transition slower than the IEA’s Stated Policies Scenario (STEPS).
o Expects global liquids demand to stabilise and gas demand to grow 25% by 2050. Plans to increase production by 25.6% by 2030.
• Planning for a slow transition may expose the company to demand substitution risk in case of a drop in hydrocarbon demand below expected levels.
3 key questions for investors to ask:
• Question 1: What share of future growth in hydrocarbon output will come from long-lead long-cycle assets?
• Question 2: What is ExxonMobil’s production guidance through 2040?
• Question 3: How have the impacts of transition related risks and achieving emissions reduction targets been reflected in the preparation of the financial statements?
Climate Impact Assessment
• ExxonMobil’s production plans, capex plans, and emissions targets are in Carbon Tracker’s view not Paris aligned. Ranks 26th out of 30 in our holistic assessment of climate
alignment.
• So-called “low-carbon energy solutions” show continued reliance on petroleum, specifically liquids for petrochemicals and gas for hydrogen projects.
3 key questions for investors to ask:
• Question 1: Does ExxonMobil plan alignment with a temperature outcome of well below 2°C? If so, how?
• Question 2: How much upstream capex did ExxonMobil allocate to new vs existing projects?
• Question 3: How does ExxonMobil justify its lobbying activities running counter to Paris Agreement goals?
IEA: Outlook for Biogas and Biomethane
IEA: Outlook for Biogas and Biomethane
(https://www.iea.org/reports/outlook-for-biogas-and-biomethane)
Biogases play an important and growing role in energy systems. Produced locally using organic waste, biogas and biomethane can contribute to energy security, waste management, emissions reductions and agricultural development.
In recent years, demand for biomethane – also known as “renewable natural gas” – has grown rapidly in many countries, supported by dozens of new policies. As a low-emissions substitute for natural gas, the use of biomethane has been targeted across a wide range of sectors, including power, industry, transport and buildings.
This report presents a first-of-its-kind global geographical analysis of the untapped potential of biogas and biomethane from agriculture, municipal waste and forestry residues. Using detailed geospatial and production cost data, it assesses the potential, costs and suitability of over 30 types of feedstocks in more than 5 million locations worldwide.
Nuveen: Infrastructure Investor Renewable Energy Roundtable
Nuveen: Infrastructure Investor Renewable Energy Roundtable
Read Infrastructure Investor's Renewable Energy Roundtable where Joost Bergsma discusses the impact of recent tariffs on the global clean energy market and the need to invest in more solar power to support growing demand for data centers.
Franklin Templeton: Climate Matters: Electric vehicles - rising sales and falling equities
Franklin Templeton: Climate Matters: Electric vehicles - rising sales and falling equities
Franklin Templeton: Climate Matters: Electric vehicles - rising sales and falling equities
Despite facing challenges in recent years, Craig Cameron of Templeton Global Equity Group believes the current environment for electric vehicles (EVs) is appealing. In this article, he explores the key supply and demand factors shaping the future of the EV sector and offers insights into where investment opportunities may be found.
IEA: World Energy Investment 2025
IEA: World Energy Investment 2025
(https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-investment-2025)
This year’s World Energy Investment report, marks the 10th edition of this flagship analysis and provides a full update on the investment picture in 2024 and an initial reading of the emerging picture for 2025.
The report provides a global benchmark for tracking capital flows in the energy sector and examines how investors are assessing risks and opportunities across all areas of fuel and electricity supply, critical minerals, efficiency, research and development and energy finance.
The report highlights several key aspects of the current investment landscape in the context of recent policy and macroeconomic developments and a heightened focus on energy security. It explores the different drivers of energy investments and identify emerging trends and priorities.
Amundi: Emerging Market Green Bonds - Report 2024
Amundi: Emerging Market Green Bonds - Report 2024
(https://www.amundi.com/institutional/article/emerging-market-green-bonds-report-2024)
At the time of writing (April 2025), the global economy faces heightened levels of uncertainty, making it challenging to forecast near-term issuance of green, social, sustainability, and sustainability-linked (GSSS) bonds in emerging markets.
That said, some underlying market drivers are apparent, such as a likely pickup in new issuance to refinance existing debt that is reaching maturity. GSSS bonds are a relatively young asset class, established with the first green bond transactions more than a decade ago.
Approximately $330 billion of those bonds will soon come to maturity and will need to be replaced over the next three years. On the other hand, three factors are likely to constrain new GSSS bond sales.
First, weaker global economic growth amid turmoil in the global trading system.
Second, recent regulatory changes in Europe such as new rules on how funds are named that are intended to curb greenwashing (misstating the extent to which financial instruments meet sustainability criteria), could reduce the number of sustainable funds that buy GSSS assets.
Third, interest in sustainable investing may have peaked in several countries, adding uncertainty to projected flows of finance to fund technological upgrades and sustainable development in emerging markets.
MSCI: Navigating Climate Opportunities in APAC Transition Funds
MSCI: Navigating Climate Opportunities in APAC Transition Funds
Key findings
- "We analyzed transition funds in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia and found that portfolio construction, climate-related risk exposures and financial performance varied significantly by transition theme.
- Most funds exhibited lower transition risk than the MSCI ACWI Investable Market Index under our Climate Value-at-Risk model, as of May 2025, while 65% reduced their Implied Temperature Rise by an average of 0.7°C since May 2023.
- As the transition-funds market grows, integrating deeper climate insights may become crucial for institutional investors to assess the different roles transition products can play in portfolios and to capture long-term opportunities."
Sustainable Fitch: State of Play: Corporate Climate Targets
Sustainable Fitch: State of Play: Corporate Climate Targets
This report reviews the state of play of corporate emissions and climate targets, by combining insights from three unique data viewpoints: a review of public corporate statements from a sample of 40 large debt issuers; a sample of outcomes from Sustainable Fitch’s Transition Assessments (TAs) for oil and gas companies; and emissions targets data and derived emissions intensity from Sustainable Fitch’s data for rated and scored entities.
Rothschild & Co Wealth Management: 2024 Sustainability and Stewardship Report
Rothschild & Co Wealth Management: 2024 Sustainability and Stewardship Report
Rothschild & Co Wealth Management: 2024 Sustainability and Stewardship Report
Carbon Tracker: Awaiting take-off
Carbon Tracker: Awaiting take-off
(https://carbontracker.org/reports/awaiting-take-off/)
Why aviation’s net zero plan still doesn’t fly.
Key industry players are failing to align stated decarbonisation ambitions with the necessary capital expenditure and R&D allocation.
Investment into conventional aircraft dwarfs current efforts to scale up new propulsion aircraft (electric, hydrogen and hybrid).
This report examines the current market for new propulsion aircraft in light of the role they will need to play in decarbonising the aviation sector. Close attention is paid to the activities of the dominant manufacturers, Airbus and Boeing, and major European airlines such as IAG. The advantages and disadvantages of different technological options for cutting emissions, including “sustainable aviation fuels” (SAF), are assessed in turn.
Robeco: Global Climate Survey: Looking for adaptation alongside mitigation solutions
Robeco: Global Climate Survey: Looking for adaptation alongside mitigation solutions
Investors are expanding their focus to solutions that can adapt to climate change rather than just trying to mitigate it, the Robeco Global Climate Investing Survey 2025 shows.
Summary
- Adaptation solutions include sea defenses, refrigerants and new drugs
- Mitigation is well established, led by clean energy and electric vehicles
- Uncertainty over potential adaptation returns and lack of suitable strategies
Baillie Gifford: Let’s talk about Actual investing some more.
Baillie Gifford: Let’s talk about Actual investing some more.
Capital deployment in the real world
We first wrote about Actual investing back in 2018, concerned that investment markets had become increasingly detached from the real-world task of thoughtful capital deployment. We argued that a growing obsession with daily prices, volatility and abstract market concepts was distracting investment managers from our original purpose.
Seven years later, the backdrop has changed significantly, in the world and in our firm. Many Baillie Gifford investment strategies have taken a hit as long-termism has all but vanished from equity markets and some clients and prospects will be questioning our approach.
In this paper we focus on why we are sticking to it, revisiting the characteristics of managers who are most likely to outperform in the long term, and we look at the growing importance of shareholder
engagement.
SHARE: Investor Guidance on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion amidst the Turmoil
SHARE: Investor Guidance on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion amidst the Turmoil
(https://share.ca/blog/investor-guidance-diversity-equity-and-inclusion/)
As politically motivated attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion ramp up within the United States, we’ve had to take a step back and evaluate what’s truly changing for investors and investee companies — and what’s not.
Some of what’s changing is the legal context around diversity, equity and inclusion — actual decisions and regulatory actions that cannot be ignored. There may also be some relevant brand-related risks from online campaigns. But the extent of the legal risks is more specific than general, and the brand risks may be more smoke than fire.
SHARE’s latest investor brief goes into greater detail on the tangible ways to distinguish the risk from the rhetoric. The fundamental takeaway for investors is that we need to accurately assess what brings value to our portfolios and not be distracted by attacks from special interests.
MSCI: Energy-Transition Momentum Building in APAC
MSCI: Energy-Transition Momentum Building in APAC
(https://www.msci.com/research-and-insights/quick-take/energy-transition-momentum-building-in-apac)
More companies across APAC are disclosing transition plans, potentially driven by the increased adoption by the region’s regulators of standards aligned to the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB).1 Between 2022 and 2024, the share of companies with such plans jumped to 22% from 12%. These companies are also significantly more likely to disclose value-chain emissions and set climate targets.
Of the companies with transition plans, around half have set, or committed to set, targets approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)....
Planet Tracker: Tuna Turner
Planet Tracker: Tuna Turner
(https://planet-tracker.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Tuna-Turner.pdf)
Investors must turn up transparency in the tuna industry
Despite recent progress, the tuna industry faces persistent challenges: biomass is only at 20-60% of pre-industrial levels, and the industry causes a major impact on other species. The thirty largest tuna harvesters account for an estimated 46% of global tuna catch. Only four out of 30 firms report any tuna catch volumes.
Because transparency remains poor, investors cannot assess individual company risks in this climate-threatened sector. By shedding light on corporate activity in the opaque tuna industry, this analysis shows why greater transparency is urgently needed – not just for ocean health, but to reduce investor risk and to support the financial performance of tuna harvesting companies.
Carbon Tracker: Royal Dutch Shell: Company Profile
Carbon Tracker: Royal Dutch Shell: Company Profile
(https://carbontracker.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CompanyProfile_Shell_2025-05.pdf)
"ENERGY TRANSITION RESPONSE ASSESSMENT
- Shell's strategy centres heavily on LNG, which it believes will play a critical role in the energy transition
- Aims to grow oil & gas production by 1% to 2030; however, nearly half of its upstream projects that are likely to be sanctioned under BAU are modelled to be uneconomic under moderate-paced transition scenario
- Plans to expand biofuels from 2025 and hydrogen and CCS offerings from 2030 are likely costly; risk being uneconomic
ETRA: Key questions for investors to ask
- Key question 1: By how much does the company plan to grow gas—and especially LNG production—over the medium- and long-term
- Key question 1: Why does the company believe LNG demand will increase sufficiently enough to justify capex in new LNG projects?
- Key question 2: What are Shell’s hydrogen and CCS-asa-service plans? How will these be economic, and valueadditive to shareholders?
CLIMATE IMPACT ASSESSMENT
- Company is not Paris-aligned
- Combined analysis assessment: Jointly ranks 6 out of 30 companies
CIA: Key questions for investors to ask
- Key question 1: How are the LNG and net-zero strategies compatible with each other, given the commercial/technical viability risk of CCS and bioLNG?
- Key question 2: How much future oil & gas production does the company plan to come from new projects?
- Key question 3: How much gas-based power generation and gas-based hydrogen is planned?"
Carbon Transition Analytics: JSW Steel: Measuring Transition
Carbon Transition Analytics: JSW Steel: Measuring Transition
(https://carbontransitionanalytics.com/research-analysis/jsw-steel-company-report/)
Tracking Technology Transition in the Indian Steel Sector: A Steel Company Report
Key insights from the report include:
- Carbon lock-in risk from continued blast furnace expansion, including 56% of capex aligned to carbon-intensive projects.
- Potentially limited access to CCS, making it harder for CO2 intensity reduction with blast furnaces beyond 2030.
- Exposure to EU carbon border tariffs (CBAM), with potential trade costs of up to 48-71% by 2034.
- A need for greater clarity on methane, which could influence technology decisions for optimal transition planning.
- Potential to close the ‘viability gap’ between blast furnaces and low-carbon alternatives sooner by considering a phased approach to green hydrogen.
- Higher exposure to the automotive sector, suggesting greater opportunity to benefit from green steel premiums.
JSW has demonstrated leadership among its peers by committing US$ 13 bn towards renewables and hydrogen-ready steel production methods. This puts the company in a better position to transition away from coal, but carbon lock-in from blast furnaces may slow the rate at which this can be done.
Sierra Club: The Long Term Will Be Decided Now
Sierra Club: The Long Term Will Be Decided Now
(https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/default/files/2025-06/the-long-term-will-be-decided-now.pdf)
Why Climate Risk Demands System-Level Action from Investors
- Part 1: Why Investors Must Confront Climate Change as a Systemic Threat to Long-Term Portfolios
- Part 2: How Investors Must Deploy Their Leverage to Mitigate Systemic Climate Risk
- Conclusion: The Fiduciary Imperative for Climate Action
Terrafiniti: Sustainability strategy - the critical components for success (Wbr 2 Jul)
Terrafiniti: Sustainability strategy - the critical components for success (Wbr 2 Jul)
(https://www.terrafiniti.com/sustainability-strategy-webinar/)
SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY the critical components for success
Event by Dr Dominic Tantram MCIEEM CEnv FICRS
Wed, Jul 2, 2025, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
RFI Foundation: Short-term climate scenarios can provide an input to help rewire the financial system
RFI Foundation: Short-term climate scenarios can provide an input to help rewire the financial system
The Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) has released its first short-term climate scenarios. These are designed as a tool to evaluate the impact of climate change on the financial sector over a period that is in line with the policy and planning horizons for most businesses and governments.
Longer-term scenarios capture the full benefits of transition investments as well as the near-term risks associated with transition and physical impacts. By their nature, the short-term scenarios put more emphasis on the sources of physical and transition risks than on the upside opportunities from investments made to avoid these risks.
Even with the focus on the sources of climate-related risks that could reduce global GDP by 3%, the scenarios were criticized as potentially understating the risk because of the simplifying assumptions used to produce the first round of scenarios. Four scenarios were used, covering an orderly transition (Highway to Paris), a delayed but aggressive transition (Sudden Wake-Up Call), current policies (Disasters and Policy Stagnation), and a blend of physical and transition risks (Diverging Realities).
The criticism focuses on the limited blend in models between those where physical risks predominate and those where transition risks are the strongest, since a realistic outlook will include both physical and transition risks. Despite the limitations of short-term climate scenarios in capturing the most likely outcome, they can be useful if users acknowledge the limitations and don’t allow their expectations of future climate risk to be anchored to either the most optimistic or pessimistic scenarios.
The usefulness of climate scenarios is to outline a baseline for considering the different ways that climate risks could propagate through the global economy and financial system. The unrealistic elements, including assumptions that only advanced economies follow transition pathways aligned with the Paris Agreement, or simplifying assumptions to model only one type of disaster (flood or drought) each year, should impact how additional assumptions are layered on top of the baseline model.
OIC economies are (at least in the short term) more likely to be impacted by global economic trends than they are able to directly influence them. If these short-term scenarios are used by financial institutions, they should be viewed as generally representing less severe scenarios. They will have increasingly adverse conditions modeled on top to address the potential impact of physical and transition risks affecting a single country, and the potential follow-on conditions that may produce a more severe adverse impact than the same developments may produce in non-OIC countries.
For example, the scenarios overall put the most severe global GDP drop as a result of the climate-related risks at 2.5% below the baseline in the ‘diverging realities’ scenario that combines physical and climate risk. At the same time, the physical impacts of climate-related risks are estimated to peak at 12.5% of GDP in Africa. Most OIC countries are at greater risk of the physical impacts of climate change, and a realistic short-term climate scenario should incorporate this risk if they seek to model realistic impacts of climate change to OIC markets.
However, as raised before in connection with the FSB’s climate financial stability assessments, these tools shouldn’t be used in a vacuum because they could create unintended consequences for OIC markets and other emerging & developing markets.
The dynamic of climate change as a source of economic and financial risk did not emerge naturally. It arose as a result of two hundred years of historical emissions, and the process of generating those emissions involved significantly unequal sharing of the benefits. For the process of addressing the impacts of climate change, the costs should be similarly skewed towards developed countries to produce an equitable outcome for humanity.
The inequitable nature of climate change is also compressed into the short-term scenario. Scenario analysis should take into consideration realistic assumptions about the transmission of losses, but the impact on the financial sector should be more equitable than has been experienced historically. Pushing the realisation of climate-related transition and physical risks onto financial institutions in OIC markets could amplify the imbalance built into the global financial architecture that inhibits flows of climate, transition and adaptation finance.
A recent report from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership provides recommendations for ‘rewiring finance’, including a focus on “addressing risk–return perceptions [for investments in EMDEs] that hamper the feasibility of investments in these regions, and creating demand signals for projects that support the transition away from fossil fuels.”
The problem being highlighted is the higher risk (often measured by credit ratings) attached to many OIC markets and other EMDEs, which influences the willingness to invest and the return expectations of investors and financial institutions. If climate-related scenario analysis is applied in a way that further constrains investment flows, then the bad-case scenarios lead to worse-case outcomes, because the necessary mitigation, transition and adaptation investments won’t be made.
If short-term scenario analysis is instead viewed as a way to prioritise projects based on their ability to mitigate climate change, support the transition or invest in adaptation, then it may be able to play a more constructive role. The efforts to ‘rewire finance’ will still be necessary to reduce barriers to the flow of finance to OIC markets and others that are EMDEs, and efforts to improve the realism of outcomes covered by short-term climate scenarios will be more fruitful in directing capital where it can be most effective.
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WRI: The High Seas Treaty: A 20-Year Journey to Transform Ocean Governance
WRI: The High Seas Treaty: A 20-Year Journey to Transform Ocean Governance
(https://www.wri.org/insights/high-seas-treaty-explainer)
The ocean makes up nearly 70% of the planet’s surface, bursting with rich biodiversity and natural resources that are vital for both the climate and economies. Yet, beyond national coastlines, protecting much of the ocean has long been a murky endeavor.
For nearly 20 years, governments, scientists and ocean advocates have worked toward securing a global treaty to protect marine life in the ocean areas that lie beyond countries’ individual jurisdictions. These vast, mostly unregulated waters, known as the high seas, hold huge importance to the health of the planet....
Natixis: Is the Omnibus a speed bump for the Green Deal?
Natixis: Is the Omnibus a speed bump for the Green Deal?
In February, the EU Commission proposed its ‘Omnibus directive’ – a package of sustainability rules aimed at simplifying EU reporting obligations while also strengthening Europe’s competitive position by fostering a sustainable, resilient economy that is well-equipped to meet future challenges and capitalise on new opportunities in the global marketplace1.
The directive forms part of the EU's ‘Green Deal’ proposals, which seek to make climate, energy, transport and taxation policies fit for reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels2. It includes changes to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which requires companies to report on their environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance.
Many countries, parties and employers' unions in Europe had called for a simplification of regulatory standards that have been perceived as excessive. But the Omnibus is likely to pose complexities, resistance, overlap and implementation challenges. For instance, gathering accurate and consistent data can be challenging, particularly for smaller institutions or those without established ESG frameworks.
So, does the Omnibus make it easier – or harder – for Europe to achieve the carbon neutrality objective at the heart of the Green Deal?
Natixis IM: Is defence defensible in ESG investing?
Natixis IM: Is defence defensible in ESG investing?
Mirova, DNCA, Ossiam: Is defence defensible in ESG investing?
Caught between the threat of Russian expansionism in the East and a possible withdrawal of the American security umbrella by Donald Trump across the Atlantic, Europe has launched an €800 billion finance plan to rearm the continent.
Yet this military emancipation cannot be achieved without recourse to private investment, particularly considering the context of strained public accounts across many European countries.....
AidEnvironment: Compliance Checker Company Profile: JBS
AidEnvironment: Compliance Checker Company Profile: JBS
(https://aidenvironment.org/publications/compliance-checker-company-profile-jbs/)
This sustainability risk profile analyses JBS’s links to forest-risk commodities in the scope of the EU regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR). The analysis maps JBS’s cattle sourcing areas, its link to deforestation hotspots, and the location of assets and infrastructure (slaughterhouses, tanneries) linked to the company’s commodities’ imports into the European market.
Klement on Investing: Getting grandpa back to work…
Klement on Investing: Getting grandpa back to work…
(https://klementoninvesting.substack.com/p/getting-grandpa-back-to-work)
"Provocative title, I know, but really, my point is that older workers are a benefit to businesses and the economy overall and we should do everything we can (especially in an ageing society) to keep older workers in the workforce for as long as possible.
I have written before about the value older workers can bring to the workforce (see here for a rather left-field example), but I came across a comparison study of the labour force participation among older workers in the UK and Spain that I found interesting...."
High Meadows Institute: Sustainability in Capital Markets
High Meadows Institute: Sustainability in Capital Markets
(https://www.highmeadowsinstitute.org/projects/sustainability-in-capital-markets-slce/)
Financing the transition to a sustainable low-carbon economy
"Since 2016, High Meadows Institute has tracked progress on the market integration of ESG and sustainable finance in our flagship Sustainability in Capital Markets reports.
In our 2025 report, we turn our focus to the climate crisis, exploring how key sectors in the financial system are engaging with the transition to a sustainable low-carbon economy (SLCE). The analysis, divided into individual sector snapshots, assesses the current roles of asset owners, asset managers, market intermediaries and other players in accelerating the transition, evaluating their level of commitment, as well as reflecting on the drivers and challenges to increasing support.
In-depth case studies identify and analyze the practices of leading firms who are pioneering the use of system-level investing to address systemic issues like climate change. We welcome your feedback on our findings, as well as suggestions of areas for further research on strengthening financial sector support for the climate transition."
Trase: The missing link: How GEIC helps us understand the biodiversity impacts of consumption
Trase: The missing link: How GEIC helps us understand the biodiversity impacts of consumption
The removal of the Global Environmental Impacts of Consumption (GEIC) indicator from the Global Biodiversity Framework leaves governments without a robust, science-based tool to measure the biodiversity impacts of consumption and trade.
Trase explains the value of GEIC in shaping more effective, equitable and transparent policies to address the global biodiversity crisis.
Anthropocene FII: The case for transition strategies in credit
Anthropocene FII: The case for transition strategies in credit
(https://anthropocenefii.org/portfolio-analysis/the-case-for-transition-strategies-in-credit)
"Here we examine the extent to which credit investment strategies that target decarbonisation outcomes can produce comparable, and often superior, returns relative to common benchmarks.
For this analysis, we contrast two distinct transition credit approaches:
- a passive carbon-efficient strategy and
- an active approach using our own Co₂liseum model portfolio.
Both target lower greenhouse gas emissions exposure in corporate bond portfolios. The findings are striking:
- both strategies outperform their respective benchmarks, with
- the passive strategy generating 16.4bps of annualized excess returns and
- the active strategy delivering 168bps."
ATNI: Edible Oil Supplier Index 2025
ATNI: Edible Oil Supplier Index 2025
(https://accesstonutrition.org/app/uploads/2025/05/Executive-Summary-Oil.pdf)
Industrially produced trans fatty acids (iTFA), which are harmful to health, continue to be found throughout the food value chain in countries that have not adopted strict TFA measures or monitoring.
By the end of 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that only 56 countries—covering 46% of the world’s population—had implemented one of two best-practice policies limiting iTFA in foods across all settings.
CISL: Wait-and-see is not an option to ensure future climate resilience
CISL: Wait-and-see is not an option to ensure future climate resilience
(https://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/news/blog/wait-and-see-not-option-ensure-future-climate-resilience)
22 May 2025 - In the Financial Times, CISL's CEO, Lindsay Hooper, states that the temptation to sit out the political storms is a huge strategic risk no business can afford to take.
Across major businesses, responses to climate change are diverging. Some are soft-pedalling their plans or quietly removing references from public view. Others are staying the course but increasingly choosing to stay quiet about it. A smaller group - often those already invested in renewables or energy efficiency - are vocally pushing for faster, system-wide change.
In some boardrooms, however, the instinct is to hunker down, say less, and wait it out, amid political pressure, regulatory fatigue and economic uncertainty.
Sustainable Finance Observatory: Is the taxonomy increasing investment into nature-positive activities?
Sustainable Finance Observatory: Is the taxonomy increasing investment into nature-positive activities?
While the EU taxonomy framework establishes various incentive mechanisms to help reorient finance towards sustainable economic activities, there is a question as to how effective it is in relation to reorienting finance towards activities with positive biodiversity impacts (e.g. conservation and restoration) and activities that reduce pressure on ecosystems.
This paper reviews how the taxonomy in its current state is critically limited as a tool to support these nature-positive activities.
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JobPost: UGI Corp. - Manager - ESG & Investor Relations (US, close unknown)
JobPost: UGI Corp. - Manager - ESG & Investor Relations (US, close unknown)
JobPost: UGI Corp. - Manager - ESG & Investor Relations (US, close unknown)
Research Assistant, Transition Pathway Initiative Centre (TPI Centre)
Research Assistant, Transition Pathway Initiative Centre (TPI Centre)
(https://www.transitionpathwayinitiative.org/work-with-us)
The role will be based within the Carbon Performance or Climate Action 100+ (CA100+) team.
Do note, we are recruiting one candidate for each of the projects, so do express your interest in one of the listed projects and why you will be suited to it within the cover letter. While we will do our best to accommodate project preferences, we cannot guarantee placement in the preferred team.
Research Assistant, Transition Pathway Initiative Centre (TPI Centre)
Research Assistant, Transition Pathway Initiative Centre (TPI Centre)
(https://www.transitionpathwayinitiative.org/work-with-us)
- Collecting data from government documents, assessing the alignment of NDC emissions reduction targets with 1.5C and researching national policies on climate mitigation, adaptation, just transition and finance.
- Contributing to ongoing improvements in the existing ASCOR methodology.
- Supporting the maintenance of an internal assessment database using Excel alongside R or Python.
- Contributing to writing reports and related analysis and visualisations.
JobPost: ISS - New Business Sales - Climate & Sustainability (NYC, close unknown)
JobPost: ISS - New Business Sales - Climate & Sustainability (NYC, close unknown)
JobPost: ISS - New Business Sales - Climate & Sustainability (NYC, close unknown)
JobPost: PRI - Senior assoc. stakeholder experience, London, close 15/6
JobPost: PRI - Senior assoc. stakeholder experience, London, close 15/6
(https://app.beapplied.com/apply/yk2bn6z6ae)
Senior Associate, Stakeholder Experience
Principles for Responsible Investment
Employment Type Full time Please note, where PRI has an office there is an expectation to work a minimum of 2 days per week
Location Hybrid · London, UK
Seniority Junior
Closing: 8:00pm, 15th Jun 2025 BST
JobPost: PRI - Specialist, Investor Initiatives (London, Closing: 8:00pm, 5th Jun 2025 BST)
JobPost: PRI - Specialist, Investor Initiatives (London, Closing: 8:00pm, 5th Jun 2025 BST)
(https://app.beapplied.com/apply/xc4mwxyer3)
Specialist, Investor Initiatives
Principles for Responsible Investment
Employment Type Full time Please note, where PRI has an office there is an expectation to work a minimum of 2 days per week
Location Hybrid · London, UK
Team IIC
Seniority Mid-level
Closing: 8:00pm, 5th Jun 2025 BST
JobPost: M&G - Senior ESG Compliance Advisor (London/Edinburgh, close 30 June)
JobPost: M&G - Senior ESG Compliance Advisor (London/Edinburgh, close 30 June)
JobPost: M&G - Senior ESG Compliance Advisor (London/Edinburgh, close 30 June)
JobPost: PRI - Director, Responsible Investment Ecosystems Europe (London, close 15 Jun)
JobPost: PRI - Director, Responsible Investment Ecosystems Europe (London, close 15 Jun)
(https://app.beapplied.com/apply/qdqtanm1yc)
Principles for Responsible Investment
Employment Type Full time Please note, where PRI has an office there is an expectation to work a minimum of 2 days per week
Location Hybrid · London, UK
Seniority Senior
Closing: 8:00pm, 15th Jun 2025 BST
JobPost: JPMorganChase - Investment Banking – Sustainable Solutions – Analyst (London, Close 28 Jun)
JobPost: JPMorganChase - Investment Banking – Sustainable Solutions – Analyst (London, Close 28 Jun)
JobPost: JPMorganChase - Investment Banking – Sustainable Solutions – Analyst (London, Close 28 Jun)
JobPost: Lloyds Banking Group - Sustainability Reporting Manager (London, close 5 Jun)
JobPost: Lloyds Banking Group - Sustainability Reporting Manager (London, close 5 Jun)
JobPost: Lloyds Banking Group - Sustainability Reporting Manager (London, close 5 Ju
JobPost: M&G - ESG Manager (12 month Secondment / FTC) (London, close 24 May)
JobPost: M&G - ESG Manager (12 month Secondment / FTC) (London, close 24 May)
JobPost: M&G - ESG Manager (12 month Secondment / FTC) (London, close 24 May)
JobPost: Commerzbank - Intern in Group Capital Markets - ESG Advisory (m/f/diverse) (Frankfurt)
JobPost: Commerzbank - Intern in Group Capital Markets - ESG Advisory (m/f/diverse) (Frankfurt)
(https://jobs.commerzbank.com/index.php?ac=jobad&id=55827)
Temporary / Full time
Location
Frankfurt am Main
Function
Investment & Transaction Banking
Your tasks
- Analysis of the sustainability strategy of our clients and support the ESG Advisory team in preparing client pitches
- Support analysis and definition of meaningful, measurable, and ambitious ESG-relevant KPls (Key Performance Targets) and Sustainability Performance Targets (SPTs) for KPl-linked financing products
- Participate in the execution of sustainable finance transactions
- Work on ad hoc projects and tasks related to ESG and sustainable finance advisory
- Continuous update of our marketing material and our databases
JobPost: PRI - Analyst, Multi-Asset, Guidance (London | Closing: 8:00pm, 18th May 2025 BST)
JobPost: PRI - Analyst, Multi-Asset, Guidance (London | Closing: 8:00pm, 18th May 2025 BST)
(https://app.beapplied.com/apply/ojnfjklcqb)
JobPost: PRI - Analyst, Multi-Asset, Guidance (London | Closing: 8:00pm, 18th May 2025 BST)
Analyst, Multi-Asset, Guidance
Principles for Responsible Investment
Employment Type Full time Please note, where PRI has an office there is an expectation to work a minimum of 2 days per week
Location Hybrid · London, City of, UK
Seniority Junior
Closing: 8:00pm, 18th May 2025 BST
JobPost: MSCI - Sustainability & Climate Sales Specialist - Riyadh (London, close unknown)
JobPost: MSCI - Sustainability & Climate Sales Specialist - Riyadh (London, close unknown)
JobPost: MSCI - Sustainability & Climate Sales Specialist - Riyadh (London, close unknown)
JobPost: M&G - Impact Investing Senior Associate (London, close 21 May)
JobPost: M&G - Impact Investing Senior Associate (London, close 21 May)
JobPost: M&G - Impact Investing Senior Associate (London, close 21 May)
JobPost: State Street - Sustainability Governance & Program , Assistant Vice President (London, close 31 May)
JobPost: State Street - Sustainability Governance & Program , Assistant Vice President (London, close 31 May)
JobPost: State Street - Sustainability Governance & Program , Assistant Vice President (London, close 31 May)
JobPost: Arcadis - Sustainability Specialist – Nature & Biodiversity (Various locations)
JobPost: Arcadis - Sustainability Specialist – Nature & Biodiversity (Various locations)
JobPost: Arcadis - Sustainability Specialist – Nature & Biodiversity (Various locations)
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
As a Sustainability Specialist in the Global Sustainability team, you will be responsible for conducting research and analysis and proposing solutions on a variety of sustainability-related topics to help the Global Sustainability Programs advance in alignment with external assurance requirements and commercial opportunities. As part of your role, you will be supporting the integration of the programs within the business, supporting pilot projects, testing innovative tools and approaches, preparing lighthouse examples, developing and facilitating trainings, and supporting the preparation of thought leadership on specific topics.