Jamie Hartzell is the definition of an entrepreneur. He arrives at his latest venture, Ethex, a non-profit that gives information on ethical investment, after a career...
The fifth annual Sustainable and Responsible Investment Study from the European Forum for Sustainable Investment (Eurosif) has outlined strong market growth, primarily driven by demand from...
Arctic summer ice cover reaches its lowest extent since records began. Antarctic land ice is being lost and those losses are accelerating. Forest cover has fallen...
The WWF has launched a comprehensive guide that seeks to aid responsible investment in 10 major commodities sectors. The 2050 Criteria: Guide to Responsible Investment in...
£25,000. It seems quite a lot of money. And it is a lot of money, by most people’s standards. Why are we looking for this amount...
FairPensions is to host a training event in London in November, in order to encourage employees and shareholders to campaign for responsible investment within their pension...
A comparison of indexes has shown that sustainable companies financially outshine those that don’t deem resource efficiency as integral to their business strategies. Writing in the...
An inquiry by a cross-parliamentary group of MPs has called for a moratorium on drilling in the Arctic until a number of safety standards are implemented...
In our month-long run up to National Ethical Investment Week 2012 (October 14-20), Simon Leadbetter asks, what’s in a name? Ever since the idea behind Blue...
A survey by the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) has highlighted climate change, executive pay and labour standards in the supply chain as three of...
You may have seen our recent series about the UN-backed Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI). If you didn’t, you now have a chance to browse through...
UNPRI is a set of six aspirational and voluntary principles, which we have explored over the last nine days. As more and more asset owners and...
The sixth principle states that signatories will “each report on our activities and progress towards implementing the Principles.” While principle three dealt with disclosure concerning companies...
The fifth principle states that signatories will “work together to enhance our effectiveness in implementing the Principles.” In any emerging trend, it is often beneficial that...
The fourth principle states that signatories will “promote acceptance and implementation of the Principles within the investment industry.” At time of publishing the following UK asset...