Global ESG News – Q3 2021
The Biden Plan for a clean energy revolution and environmental proposal will make a federal investment of $1.7 trillion over the next ten years, leveraging additional private sector and state and local investments to total to more than $5 trillion. These investments...
Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Supply Chain Risk Management
Modern day supply chains are complex, changing, and fraught with risk management challenges. One scary statistic we hear these days is that over the past 2 two years alone 90% of the data ever created was generated. This incredible volume of data is being created to...
Eden Towers – Agritech ESG Report
Eden Towers completed an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) review and first ESG report working with the team from ESG Impact, and key supplier and partner Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS). Throughout the process the key focus was to ensure Eden Towers has...
ESG Strategy and Reporting for Global Smart City
We are very excited to have recently completed the first ESG report for Enyimba Economic City (EEC) in Nigeria. A special economic zone project of a comparable size (9,464 Hectares) to the city of Paris. EEC will connect 5 South-east & 4 South-south States of...
ESG for small business – a risk or an opportunity post Covid-19
ESG issues ESG issues are becoming increasingly prevalent for businesses large and small as the world shifts to the 4th industrial revolution. In recent times the expectations of businesses to integrate ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) risk management into...
Better pricing on FX forwards using ESG & sustainable finance target
A growing number of corporate treasurers are exploring how their foreign exchange hedging positions can help make them a cleaner and more responsible organisation. Global Banks such as Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas & JP Morgan are creating derivative instruments...
Shareholder ESG Class Actions Increase – When climate change became a financial issue
The shift from ethical issues to financial issues: climate change isn’t just a moral issue anymore; it’s also a financial one. BHP Billiton is currently facing three class-action lawsuits relating to damages from Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, the collapse of...
Australia’s first CBI ‘Green Loan’ for A$170M closed
Investa commercial Property Fund (ICPF) has just closed Australia’s Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) compliant Green Loan for A$170m. This was achieved by matching Investa’s portfolio of planned commercial buildings against the CBI emissions thresholds, requiring assets...
Issue a Green Bond to Buy a Green Bond
Is issuing a green bond to the capital market and buying a green bond incorporated by corporations in developing nations, development banks new strategy? If this trend is accurate, the strategy is encouraging for all corporations across the globe and emerging market...