Insights

Integrating nature & biodiversity into investment - an asset owner perspective

This report, produced by Pensions for Purpose, focuses on asset owners’ approaches to integrating nature and biodiversity into their sustainability priorities, governance frameworks, resource capacity, reporting, and asset manager expectations, as well as data-related challenges. 

How are children’s rights evolving for investors?

In this video, FSI MUFG Sustainable Investment Institute introduces the evolving concept of children’s rights and their relevance to business and investors.
 

Sustainable Investment: What it is and how you can get involved?

Together with First Sentier Investors, the Sustainable Investment Institute contributed to the development of the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) guide ‘Sustainable Investment: What it is and how you can get involved?’.
 

PFAS: Forever Chemicals - Investor Briefing Webinar

A webinar on the latest report ‘PFAS: Forever Chemicals - Investor Briefing’ hosted by Chronos Sustainability and First Sentier MUFG Sustainable Investment Institute to explore the report's key findings and discuss the implications for investors.
 

Dimensions of diversity beyond gender

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) has been a focal point on the investor agenda for many years but the scope of diversity is evolving. Although gender continues to be a central and critical theme for DEI progress, investors can broaden the areas of diversity they can engage on. ‘Gender and Beyond: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’, published by the First Sentier MUFG Sustainable Investment Institute highlights four broader dimensions of diversity

• Disability and neurodiversity; 
  
• LGBTQ+; 
• Ethnicity; and 
• Socioeconomic background

The state of nature-related disclosures in high-risk sectors

Nature and biodiversity are quickly becoming an important agenda item for policymakers, businesses and capital markets. Nature is being degraded at rates unparalleled in human history and as threats to biodiversity exponentially increases, so does the impetus for organisations to take responsibility and act.

Investor pressure to encourage corporate action on forever chemicals

Since its development in the 1940s, the use of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) are present in many of the products we use day to day. But despite the prominent role they play in creating these products, the true impact of PFAS on the environment has flown under the radar. 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Gender and Beyond webinar

A panel discussion on the latest Diversity, Equity & Inclusion report with guest speakers including Emma Douglas, Senior Stewardship Analyst from Brightwell and Dr. Rebecca Montacute, Head of Research and Policy from Sutton Trust.

Constructive corporate engagements from a corporate perspective webinar

An overview webinar on the latest paper 'Constructive corporate engagements from a corporate perspective' from the Sustainable Investment Institute hosting by Sudip Hazra, Director of the Sustainable Investment Institute...

Why investors should pay attention to nature?

The ecosystem services provided by nature have declined faster in the last fifty years, creating some serious and rapidly growing risks for companies and their investors due to our dependencies on nature.... 

Oversight of sustainable funds: current challenges and the path forward

Investors chose to invest in pooled funds to access the financial expertise of investment professionals...

Sources of microfibres and their distribution in the environment

Microfibres can be defined as any natural or synthetic fibres shed from textiles or related fibre-based products...

Sources of microplastics and their distribution in the environment

Widespread application of plastics in everyday life leads to micropollution and its accumulation in the environment...

What is micropollution and why is it a concern for the environment and human health?

Plastics are some of the most versatile man-made products, durable and lightweight, which made them easy to integrate into nearly every facet of everyday life, from food packaging to toiletries to vehicles to textiles...