Cardano participates and supports a variety of initiatives targeting different actors to address the plastic pollution crisis. One of the latest initiatives we supported was an investor statement calling petrochemical companies that produce plastic polymers to take stronger action towards plastics circularity. Read more here.

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, sustainability is no longer just a buzzword or a corporate social responsibility checkbox. It has become a strategic imperative that can drive business success, foster innovation and ensure long-term viability. Read more here.

When it comes to sustainability, climate change is now front of mind for companies and their investors. But markets are also starting to wake up to what has long been a major blind spot: biodiversity loss.

Financial markets, through impact investing, have a unique opportunity to promote gender equality globally. In this article, colleagues share their thoughts on how pension funds are in the driving seat to increase financial inclusion and empowerment for women.

Sustainability factors are an ever increasing part of trustees’ strategy and planning, as well as an increasing risk to the insurers themselves. Read our insights on the insurer transparency / sustainability challenge.

In our view, investment in fossil fuels and the impact on climate change will remain a major discussion in 2024 but in our mind there are four other key issues and developments that we are likely to see. Dennis van der Putten outlines what we expect to see in 2024.

We are pleased to share the following insights from across our Group – Cardano UK (Advisory and Investment), Cardano NL, and NOW: Pensions – looking ahead to what’s in store for 2024.

Stewardship can be defined as the use of influence in pursuit of an outcome. Stewardship comprises engagement and voting, but also involves using these tools in tandem with each other as a form of escalation. Here’s our 10-point plan for achieving effective stewardship.

Sustainable investment has reached the main stage. So much so, that “ESG” has become a set of talking points for Republican hopefuls in the early stages of the US presidential election. ESG is a beast of our making and one that will only get noisier. Read more from Will Martindale after this year’s PLSA Investment Conference in Edinburgh.

Based on Will Martindale’s experience, he has written his top 10 learnings on how a Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) can most effectively support a firm in achieving its climate and sustainability objectives.

Sustainability is dominating Trustees’ agenda with climate change squarely at the top. But the other side of the climate change coin is biodiversity loss, a topic that deserves Trustees’ attention in its own right, with many experts considering it a threat more serious than climate change. Read the article by Will Martindale which appeared in the Pensions Management Institute’s Environmental, Social & Governance Report 2022.