Daily FNArena News - ESG Focus

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

Matthew Talbot (ServiceNow) explains why the onus is on banks and insurers to guide economies towards lower carbon emissions

With US$2.8trn of US$4trn APAC debt exposed to environmental risk, S&P Global Ratings hones its sights on the region as ESG debt suffers most in the global bond market’s inflation and geopolitical bond rout

APA Group is heavily exposed to brown infrastructure but the company used its investor day to highlight the role of gas as a transition fuel, its green ambitions and ESG credentials in a bid to reassure investors

Recent findings by the Climate Council reveal one in twenty-five homes in Australia might be uninsurable by 2030