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March 2020

ESG and Alpha in China

Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)

Chinese asset managers have made progress in expanding their ESG research capabilities, and onshore Chinese companies have increasingly been included in global benchmarks.

December 2020

A toolkit for sustainable investment policy and regulation

World Bank Group
This toolkit provides a high-level overview of five foundational sustainable investment policies explaining why each is important, setting out their key features and presenting some examples of such policies in action.
8 February 2021 to 10 February 2021

Conference on Strengthening Environmental, Social, and Governance Investment Under the COVID-19 Crisis

On 8-10 February 2021 at 07:00-10:00am (CET) Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) is hosting the 'Conference on Strengthening Environmental, Social, and Governance Investment Under the COVID-19 Crisis' online.
April 2016

A Practical Guide To ESG Integration For Equity Investing

United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment
To guide investors – both asset owners and investment managers – who are implementing ESG integration techniques in their investment decisions and processes, this report, A Practical Guide To ESG Integration For Equity Investing is the most comprehensive description to date of what ESG-integrated analysis is, and how it works in practice.

WWF Guidance Note on Integrating ESG-factors Into Financial Models for Infrastructure Investments

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
This Guidance Note aims to illustrate how the consideration of ESG factors may inform the forecasting of financials, such as revenues, operating costs and capital expenditure, etc. in the context of assessing an infrastructure asset. It selects twelve ESG factors and identifies their potential risks and opportunities for infrastructure assets as they may emerge throughout an asset’s life cycle (development, construction, operation, and decommissioning). It then sets out to quantify these risks and opportunities for the purpose of developing or adjusting the financial forecasts of such assets.
July 2020

Sustainable and Actionable: An ESG study of climate and social challenge for Asia

The Economist
This report explores environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing in fixed-income markets and examines the evolution of “green” debt from an issuer, investor and regulatory perspective.
March 2019

Valuing Sustainability in Infrastructure Investments: Market Status, Barriers and Opportunities - A Landscape Analysis

World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF)
This report, which is based on 20+ interviews with investors and other stakeholders, explores the reasons for the slow progress of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) integration in infrastructure investments by private investors and evaluates the emerging field of publicly available tools that seek to make the sustainability impacts on and from infrastructure projects tangible for investors.
January 2020

ESMA Strategic Orientation 2020-2022

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, has published its Strategic Orientation for 2020-22. The strategy sets out ESMA’s future focus and objectives, which are translated into concrete actions through the annual Programming Document and work programme. The strategic direction on promoting sustainable finance and long-term oriented capital markets highlights ESMA's role in supporting the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and combatting climate change.
September 2020

ESG Investing: Environmental pillar scoring and reporting

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
The report examines whether E scoring and reporting effectively serve markets and investors that are using ESG investing in part as a tool to make portfolios more resilient to physical and climate transition risks.
April 2019

2018 Global Sustainable Investment Review

The Global Sustainable Investment Review 2018 summarizes the status of sustainable and responsible investing in Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, and Australia and New Zealand. In the period since the last report was released, the global sustainable investment market has continued to grow, and in most of the regions covered by GSIA’s member organizations, its share of professionally managed assets has also grown.

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