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Corporate Strategy
Corporate strategy involves the comprehensive plan a company employs to achieve its long-term objectives, encompassing decisions on resource allocation, market participation, and competitive positioning. Integrating sustainability into corporate strategy enables organisations to create long-term stakeholder value. This approach offers advantages such as enhancing brand value, meeting consumer demands, increasing efficiency, attracting top talent, and opening new market opportunities.
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Changing colours: Adaptive capacity of companies in the context of the transition to a low carbon economy
Over the coming decades economies will transition towards a low carbon economy. This paper explores the adaptive capacity of firms to financial risks that may arise in the context of this transition, while detailing the risk of a "too sudden too late scenario of sweeping legal, social and environmental change".
Green Growth Knowledge Partnership
Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) is a global community of policy, business and finance professionals, and organisations, committed to collaboratively generating, managing, and sharing knowledge on the transition to an inclusive green economy. They provide three knowledge platforms offering research, case studies and tools in green finance, policy, and industry.
Finance Earth
Finance Earth is a mission-driven social enterprise, working in partnership with world-leading environmental organisations to protect and restore nature by utilising market-based mechanisms and implementing bespoke financial tools. They help create projects – and the investment vehicles to fund them – that balance positive outcomes for nature, communities and investors.
Genus Capital Management
Genus Capital Management (Genus) is a Vancouver-based independent investment management firm, offering innovative investment solutions for institutions and families. Genus evaluates global investment markets systematically and continuously to identify hidden opportunities and better manage risk for their clients.
International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN)
International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) is an investor-led global member organisation which advances the highest standards of corporate governance and investment stewardship worldwide. ICGN achieve this through long-term value creation and frameworks that contribute to sustainable economies, society, and the environment.
CFA Institute
The CFA Institute is an organisation which provides education to investment professionals in regards to economics, ethics, financial analysis and corporate finance. The institute aims to promote high standards through globally recognised qualifications which require recipients to maintain these standards at all times.
Global Canopy
Global Canopy is a not-for-profit organisation aiming to support transparency and reporting standards enforced in global supply chains and industries. Using quantitative evidence, Global Canopy supports sustainable finance by developing portfolios and reports based on environmental data initiatives in partnerships with research institutions for governments and financial institutions worldwide.
Reclaim Finance
Reclaim Finance aims to make finance work for people and the planet by using research and campaigning to shift some of the world's largest financial institutions away from investment in fossil fuels. In collaboration with Friends of the Earth France, Reclaim Finance's focus includes banks, insurers, investors and rating agencies.
World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum (WEF) is an independent international organisation committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. Incorporated as a not-for-profit foundation, WEF is tied to no political or national interests.
Kepler Cheuvreux
Kepler Cheuvreux Group is a leading pan-European financial services company, active in research, intermediation and advisory. It was founded in 1997. The Kepler Cheuvreux Foundation is a non-profit organisation, and will only support non-profit organisations, whether public or private.
McKinsey & Company
McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm. The company support clients in growth and transformation, to build new businesses, and to strengthen existing institutions. McKinsey & Company are ambitious in helping clients to realise economic and social benefits for all people across the global community.
Plan for Life, Actuaries & Researchers
Plan for Life, Actuaries & Researchers is an ISS Market Intelligence brand that collects Australia and New Zealand data covering retirement, managed funds, and life insurance markets using actuarial methods in order to provide clients with market share reports and statistics, business intelligence, product analyses and consulting services.
Rhodium Group
Rhodium Group is an independent research provider combining economic data and policy insight to analyse global trends. Key areas of Rhodium expertise include Chinese economic, social and political development, energy and climate change, India’s emergence as a global player and advanced economy restructuring.
ISS
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) provides corporate governance and responsible investment market intelligence, fund services, events and editorial content for investors and companies. The company's overall aim is to empower investors and companies to build long-term and sustainable growth through high-quality data, analytics, and insights.
Principles for Sustainable Insurance
Principles for Sustainable Insurance serves as a global framework for the insurance industry to address environmental, social, and governance risks and opportunities. As risk managers, risk carriers and investors, the insurance industry has a vital interest and plays an important role in fostering sustainable economic and social development.
Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA)
Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA) is the trade association, research, standards setting and policy voice for the syndicated corporate loan industry in the United States. LSTA aims to foster fair market practices and promote the highest degree of confidence for investors in floating rate corporate loans.
