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Report: Financing energy efficient buildings: the path to retrofit at scale
In the UK, our built environment is responsible for almost 30% of total greenhouse gas emissions. And yet this sector has significant potential to decarbonise and unlock wider benefits across the economy: energy savings that increase consumer spending power, healthier homes that reduce the burden on our health system, and the creation of new skilled jobs that can help stimulate the UK’s economic recovery.
Cheshire pension fund asks members what they want
More than 100,000 members of a Cheshire pension fund are being asked to have their say on how money is invested.
UK pension fund Nest quits smoking
The largest UK pension master trust has confirmed it will be going tobacco-free across its investments.
Huge Swedish pension fund dumps fossil fuel
A major Swedish pension fund with billions of assets under management to stop fossil fuel investments.
Big city mayors urge pension fossil fuel divestment
London mayor Sadiq Khan and New York City mayor Bill de Blasio have urged the mayors of other major cities to follow their lead and divest their cities’ pension schemes from fossil fuel assets.
Brunel demands pension fund aligns with Paris Accord
Bristol-based pension fund demands companies it invests in take steps by 2022 to align their emissions with targets agreed at the 2015 Paris climate summit.
The good news on pensions: sustainable equals profitable
Are you willing to stake your future on companies that invest unethically?
ESG funds continue to outperform wider market
More than half of ethical and sustainable funds beat the MSCI World index.