Meet our regional director Eleanor Slinger (Ng) and Capital Monitor | New Statesman Media Group senior editor Elizabeth Meager at the Abu Dhabi Finance Week 2023. Don’t miss this opportunity to explore the future of investment in the transition era adgm.com/events/abudhab…

As the world takes stock of progress towards the Paris Agreement goals, Angela Hultberg says that concerns remain about the gap between promises made and actions taken Kearney capitalmonitor.ai/opinion/empty-…

A raft of legislation and reporting requirements imposes duties on companies, but Paul Hodgson asks what actions are being taken to prevent modern #slavery from happening in the first place capitalmonitor.ai/asset-class/eq…

As the GOP-led 'War on Woke' seeks to dismantle ESG investing, Mark Tulay writes that there needs to be a reinvention of investment norms capitalmonitor.ai/asset-class/al…

A new analysis of proxy voting records by Morningstar, Inc. shows that the big three mutual funds have an outsize influence on the fortunes of shareholder resolutions capitalmonitor.ai/asset-class/al…

Incredible growth in the ESG bond market has presented the bond market with a new systemic risk due to the presence – or not – of a #greenium capitalmonitor.ai/asset-class/fi…

.London Business School’s @iioannoulbs is quoted in Capital Monitor | New Statesman Media Group which references a recent Financial Times article that described ESG as “born in sanctimony, nurtured with hypocrisy and sold with sophistry”. Dr Ioannou said the article “bypasses [a] wealth of empirical evidence'. ow.ly/veHc50Q3xAr

Unilever’s CEO dismissed corporate purpose as an “unwelcome distraction”. Is the rejection of ESG an attempt to deflect from the company’s performance? #unilever capitalmonitor.ai/opinion/unilev…

Asset managers accept the energy transition is both an investment opportunity and a fiduciary duty. But trouble lies ahead in Europe capitalmonitor.ai/sector/real-es…

'Banks failing on human rights, says BankTrack' via Capital Monitor | New Statesman Media Group

BankTrack finds the 50 largest banks are largely failing on their human rights record indicating poor progress on disclosures. Paul Hodgson notes that investors are watching capitalmonitor.ai/institution/ba…

Banks know they must partner with peers to tackle climate change, so why don’t we have better ways to see if they are? capitalmonitor.ai/opinion/we-nee…

Transition plans, if suitably ambitious and delivered with appropriate actions and with proper accountability, can support the allocation of capital to companies contributing to meeting the aims of the Paris Agreement, and away from those that aren’t. capitalmonitor.ai/institution/go…

How the TPT Disclosure Framework can support net-zero ambitions. Ben Caldecott writes that climate transition ambitions are meaningless if there’s no action or accountability
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How to restore confidence in the voluntary carbon market capitalmonitor.ai/asset-class/al…

As the ESG wars continue in the US, a steady drip feed of anti-ESG legislation and legal actions continues capitalmonitor.ai/regions/americ…

🙌I spoke with Capital Monitor | New Statesman Media Group on the topic of Equal Pay Day.

📄In the article I discuss what is being done to generate greater equality in pay.

💻Find out more about what I had to say, by reading the article here: capitalmonitor.ai/sdgs/sdg-5-gen…

UK could take financial hit with net zero climb down capitalmonitor.ai/opinion/uk-cou…

Explainer: What is Equal Pay Day? capitalmonitor.ai/sdgs/sdg-5-gen…

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“The financial benefits of ESG are increasing year-by-year…We only expect this correlation to strengthen as ESG data becomes richer and more nuanced” Capital Monitor | New Statesman Media Group

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