Daily FNArena News - ESG Focus

2020 has seen the biggest global shrinkage of personal liberties during peacetime, but it’s all about the global pandemic and last year’s trend is not necessarily spelling doom and gloom for the world’s democracies

ESG funds ballooned in 2020, as investors sought safe havens from covid and the Saudi-Russia oil price war but 2021 is a different story

A new era is dawning for the waste industry and Australia’s two major waste-management companies are going to have to shape up if they want to catch the tide. Just sometimes, the devil is in the detail

Despite taking a back seat to social and sustainable bonds in the first-half of 2020, the green bond market roared to life in the second half, cracking the US$1trn mark. Volumes are expected to jump up to 50% in 2021

It’s all hands on deck heading into the fourth industrial revolution, China is in the game, and companies will need the best of the best to survive: well informed and well-heeled ESG investors know it; and sovereign nations are legislating

Part 1 of this series focused on the bigger picture for fossil fuels, and in this article, we drill down to the ESG trends affecting forecasts in the specific coal, gas and oil markets

The merger of the US Sustainability Accounting Standards Board and the International Integrated Reporting Council signals an acceleration towards mandatory, standardised global ESG reporting.

Credit Suisse says the overperformance of ESG “quality” stocks in APAC markets throughout 2020 post-covid has created a factor risk for ESG investors heading into 2021

The International Energy Agency has switched its allegiance from fossil fuels to renewables post-covid painting a bleak picture; battery storage has hit the US$100KWH tipping point and the market can expect a rollout in 2021

Preparing for the “green recovery” and social stimulus, ESG investors are focusing on the effects of covid-19 on individual environmental, social and governance themes, and lining up their ducks – FNArena summarises the winners and losers and checks out the post-covid geopolitical and anti-trust environments