It is a great pleasure to invite you to attend the masterclass regarding responsible mining for financial institutions that we organize in cooperation with IUCN NL. Mineral mining portrays a complex picture as it is closely linked to environmental issues, […]
Read moreVBDO Platform Consultation 29 November
Welcome to the VBDO Platform Consultation for institutional members on 29 November. This time the platform is dominated by the Sustainable Development Goals. On the agenda: Workshop: Taking leadership on the SDGs By: Francesca Sharp (ICAEW) The ICAEW, Institute of Chartered […]
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Today, a group of Dutch financial institutions launched the ‘Platform Living Wage Financials’ (PLWF). This platform was created to improve the poor working conditions in the textile industry, where wages are often too low to live on. Founders ASN Bank, […]
Read moreInvesting with an eye for the environment
More and more market parties offer sustainable investment products. A good thing, according to Xander Urbach of the Dutch Association of Investors for Sustainable Development (VBDO). He observes that the sustainable goals and a good return go well together. The […]
Read moreVBDO Benchmark Pension Funds
VBDO Benchmark Pension Funds: How sustainable do we want to be (and can we be)? VBDO director Angélique Laskewitz presents the newest VBDO Benchmark Pension Funds on Pensioen Pro BeleggersBeraad 2018. She will discuss with Pensioen Pro about the state […]
Sign upInstitutional investors stop with tobacco
According to Hester Holtland of the Dutch Association of Investors for Sustainable Development, reputation damage plays an increasingly important role in the exclusion of tobacco. ‘We are seeing more and more institutional investors who stop investing in tobacco.’ Read the […]
Read moreDutch business sector embraces Sustainable Development Goals
Publication: Act Together - Sustainability Performance of Dutch Stock Listed Companies - AGM Report 2018
The largest listed companies in the Netherlands embrace the Sustainable Development Goals. Research by the Association of Investors for Sustainable Development (VDBO) at 35 Dutch listed companies shows that important progress was made on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in […]
Read more DownloadAGM Report 2018: Act Together
Publication: AGM Report 2018: Act Together
AVA Engagement Seminar
On Wednesday 27 June, the AGM engagement seminar 2018: Act Together was organized at BNP Baribas in Amsterdam by VBDO. VBDO’s latest AGM report – ‘Act Together’ – was presented by Angélique Laskewitz to Robert van Kerkhoff of BNP Paribas […]
Read moreWhitepaper Natural Capital Expeditions
Publication: Whitepaper Natural Capital Expeditions
Connecting Finance and Natural Capital: A Supplement
Publication: Connecting Finance and Natural Capital: A Supplement to the Natural Capital Protocol
Climate policy Dutch pension funds aimed at further warming
Publication: Dutch Pension Funds and Climate Change: Now is the time
Direct risks for portfolios remain underexposed Research of VBDO together with AXA IM among 38 institutional investors shows: 18% have quantitative target reduction of CO2 emissions 26% exclude polluting companies More focus on combating climate problem than relief consequences Fewer […]
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