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.
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.
A tool that helps us focus on sectors where the opportunities outweigh the risks.
Few Justices in history have affected more constitutional change in a lifetime than the notorious Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Designing a resilient response to the inevitable impact of climate change
This week marks five years since the United Nations agreed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Welcome to Impact @ Impax 2020. This is the sixth annual publication we have produced that discloses the quantified environmental benefits linked to our clients’ investments in our portfolio companies.
At the heart of our investment philosophy lies the search for resilient businesses set to thrive in the transition to a more sustainable economy.
Impax has been awarded A+ and A scores across all applicable categories in the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) assessment report of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) integration efforts.
The contours of the post-COVID landscape are yet to fully come into focus. Unlike in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis however, there are clear signs that concerns about environmental issues have been elevated by what we have recently experienced.
To help other investors with their climate risk assessment, mitigation and transition-informed asset allocation, we have partnered with the sustainability non-profit organization Ceres to publish case studies of 10 global asset owners.
Celeste Cole describes an engagement related to one of companies’ growing risk factors — plastic.
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.
In this quarter’s commentary, we share perspectives on the rapid rebound in equities amid continued COVID-19 uncertainty, resiliency in sustainable investing and the sharper focus placed on sustainability as a result of the pandemic and uprising against racism.
We are monitoring the COVID-19 situation closely. Here’s what we’re doing to ensure business continuity during this very unusual time.
This framework offers a blueprint for the enhanced collaboration between policy and investment communities that will be needed if we are to deliver the climate goals of the Paris Agreement.
We engage with the companies in our portfolios in an effort to make them more sustainable, resilient long-term investments.
We believe our portfolio companies have resilient business models and in this context, we engage to support and encourage the management of their risks rather than to radically change their core activities.
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