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Corporate net zero: we need a more sophisticated approach
The private sector holds the key to decarbonising the economy over the next quarter century.
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Impax High Yield Bond Strategy Q1 2021 Review and Update [Webcast]
Climate Action: President Biden’s First 100 Days Bring Historic Reset
Joe Keefe discusses Washington’s new momentum on climate change.
Built-in Bias: What Investors Should Know
How companies and investors can spot bias in technology and take steps to eradicate it.
Liquid asset: transforming water from a systemic and unpriced global risk to a measurable opportunity
Water is a human necessity, but it is also a systemic and unpriced global challenge with significant economic and societal risks.
China’s Five-Year Plan: a missed opportunity or more to come?
Big things were expected on the climate agenda at the National People’s Congress. So how did environmental objectives fare, and do we now have more clarity on China’s route to net zero?
To Find Climate Change Solutions, Add Diversity
A growing body of research shows that when it comes to creating solutions to climate change, gender diversity matters.
Mission First, People Always
A Q&A with Microsoft’s Rani Borkar
China’s Five-Year Plan: an important step on the path towards net zero?
All eyes are now on Beijing’s next Five-Year Plan, which will be unveiled in March. Environmental objectives are expected to feature prominently; so, what policy buttons will China press to achieve its 2060 net-zero target?
Making green taxonomies less taxing: lessons from the last 20 years
As politicians unveil new environmental policies and business leaders seek recognition for their latest low-carbon commitments, others are wrestling with what “green” actually means.
Financing the Transition to a More Sustainable Economy
In this article, we discuss Impax’s sustainable fixed income approach in context of the transition to a more sustainable global economy and the rapidly evolving impact bond market.
Climate-Ready: Biden-Harris Picks Reflect Big Plans for Climate Action
President Biden’s appointees and cabinet nominees have deep experience, but will that be enough to deliver his administration’s audacious climate plan?
Impax Enhances Sustainability Profiles of Three Pax World Funds
Changes reflect the Funds’ focus on investing in the transition to a more sustainable economy.
A Year of Awakenings
Joe Keefe reflects on 2020 and the hopeful signals for the year ahead.
2021: Back to a sustainable future?
Here we examine our selection of the themes that will guide the transition to a more sustainable economy in 2021.
4th Annual Impax Invest in Women Symposium
The 2020 symposium featured multiple keynotes and panel sessions. It was a forum for some of our best discussions yet.
The White House versus the Senate – where next for US climate policy?
A new dawn for U.S. climate policy? Joe Keefe explores how the Biden administration could proceed with a new climate agenda.
The Financial Impact of Diversity
The relationship between diversity and financial performance is supported by literature that is expanding not only in depth, but in breadth, encompassing many more forms of diversity than gender alone, and expanding to many measures of corporate prosperity than just profits.
Pax World Funds Investment Outlook: Fourth Quarter 2020
In this quarter’s commentary, we share perspectives on systemic risks, including pandemic risk, climate risk, biodiversity loss, and racial and gender discrimination and inequality. All these issues have spread quickly around the globe, and all of them have and will continue to affect the economy and financial markets.
The physical risks of climate change: building a resilient response
Reflecting on last week’s Climate Week 2020, I’m struck by what a crucial period we are entering for our global response to climate change.