ESG Archive

Global companies worth $38 tn had approved emissions reduction targets or commitments by the end of 2021 but the world is still not on track to halve emissions by 2030, according to new research from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). The global non-profit body, which aims...

Retail investors across Europe continue to increase their interest in responsible investment but there is growing concern over how robust the classification of ESG funds by asset managers is under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) framework. Despite the overall growth and increasing specialization of ESG value propositions in recent years, at the end of 2021 the majority of European ESG assets were held in equity mutual fund products, Cerulli Asso...

IR Magazine and Corporate Secretary are seeking nominations for the inaugural ESG Integration Awards with the final deadline for submissions being midnight ET on April 15. Entries can be submitted – free of charge – by corporate secretaries, general counsel, compliance officers, sustainability teams and IR professionals at companies listed/domiciled in the US, or by vendors or service providers on behalf of their corporate clients. The w...

Writing this, most companies had reported their fourth-quarter and full-year 2021 results and many management and IR teams had post-results investor outreach under way. This includes February roadshows and March broker conferences before first-quarter preps kick off in April. A few trailblazer countries like the UK and Denmark removed most Covid-19 restrictions in January as cases fell, with some others following in February, but others – Hong Kong, for example â€...