Daily FNArena News - ESG Focus

With divestment of its Beetaloo asset stake, Origin Energy continues its transition away from gas exploration. While largely received positively by analysts, some raise concern as to the pathway towards energy transition exposure

Cracks are starting to emerge in the ESG narrative as elite global financial interests battle for supremacy, but what does this mean for markets?

VIDEO: In a first for FNArena Talks, Danielle Ecuyer interviewed Matthew England, Scientia Professor of Ocean & Climate Dynamics at the University of New South Wales

Big capital is shifting from the carrot to the stick as it prepares to wheel out ESG litigation, which is set to become a new investment opportunity – an asset class in its own right 

A senior US sustainability adviser says the Ukraine War will hasten energy production and this will require metals and materials, despite ESG mandates

In 2021, China published its six-point plan for achieving common prosperity, sending global markets into a tailspin, and we include it here as a reference so that our readers can see what all the fuss was about

China President Xi Jinping launched the nation’s six-point “Common Prosperity” plan with a series of strong-arm tactics that alarmed markets, but the plan’s overlap with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals is startling

Ahead of the Herd’s Rick Mills reports the world is steering towards a genuine fresh water crisis

Growing geopolitical tension with China has put the cat among the pigeons given Western and Eastern policy responses to the threat of regional conflict align so closely with ESG thematics

Ahead of the Herd’s Rick Mills warns that between extreme heat and a lack of fresh water, areas of planet Earth may soon become inhabitable, putting an even greater strain on existing finite natural resources, and increasing competition for them