Current disclosure frameworks provide a solid basis for financial institutions to assess climate risks. However, the climate resilience goals recently outlined at the Climate Adaptation Summit 2021 require these frameworks to also integrate real world resilience. Even in the best-case […]
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(Tax) Governance Code: Institutional investors can enforce responsible tax payment from companies
Taxes are crucial to maintaining and developing public services. Public services we all depend on in the Covid-19 pandemic. That is why, since 2015, the OECD has been calling for companies to make their tax payments to governments publicly available, […]
Three degrees of warming is not an option for long-term investors
Since the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015, the United Nations has published an annual report on the state of climate change. Not unexpectedly, the report again paints a shocking picture; “The earth is becoming three degrees warmer, despite current climate […]
Corona crisis has a major impact on shareholders’ meetings
This year, the start of the shareholders’ meeting (AGM) season coincided with the start of the corona crisis. This certainly had a major impact on the AGMs. Not only in the way in which companies gave substance to the crisis […]
Financial sector action needed to tackle biodiversity crisis
What do a conservationist, a sustainable investor and De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) have in common? In the recent report, ‘Biodiversity and the financial sector: a cross-pollination’, DNB and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) show that loss of biodiversity poses […]
Climate change on the agenda, but is it enough?
Countries have agreed in the Paris Climate accord to limit the increase of global temperatures to a maximum of 1.5°C. To achieve this goal, countries will need to move towards climate neutral economies, in which net-CO2e emissions are reduced to […]
How to stimulate mining in a responsible and transparent manner?
Mark van der Wal Senior Expert Extractives IUCN NL mark.vanderwal@iucn.nl Due to its specific nature, the mining industry is negatively impacting on biodiversity and the environment in general in many countries. Together with other NGOs and companies, IUCN NL aims […]