Sustainability Highlights

Individual investors in the U.S., often referred to as “retail” investors, are important factors in the capital markets. Statista.com estimates that 61% of all adults in the U.S. are invested in the stock market, while the latest... Read full issue >Read full issue >

According to a recent Bloomberg report, BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager with over US $9 trillion in AUM, has been “expanding its dominance” in ESG investing, with net ESG investment inflows in every quarter of the... Read full issue >Read full issue >

We all fly here and there at some time, don’t we? Airline travel is a wondrous advancement in human progress that we often take for granted. It was just 120 years ago, on December 17, 1903, that the Wright Brothers of Dayton,... Read full issue >Read full issue >

At this time of year, we’ll usually see a flurry of “looking back” and “looking ahead” perspectives shared, distributed by service providers, with focus on 2023 developments and 2024 forecasts. This issue of our newsletter... Read full issue >Read full issue >

A comment often heard several decades ago in sustainability and ESG investing circles was that U.S.-headquartered companies were distinct laggards in disclosing information and especially performance data on their environmental,... Read full issue >Read full issue >

The sixth and final status report prepared by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) was released in October. The Task Force said it continued to see “significant momentum around adoption and support of... Read full issue >Read full issue >

The UN-Convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA), formed in 2019, is a member-led initiative of institutional investors committed to transitioning their investment portfolios to net-zero GHG emissions by year 2050 – a tall... Read full issue >Read full issue >