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Best practices for advisors and consultants to integrate ESG factors into investment and financial strategies, supporting clients in building sustainable portfolios.
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Between impact and returns: Private investors and the sustainable development goals
Wealthy private investors increasingly align their portfolios with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), seeking both measurable impact and financial returns. Investors favour SDGs linked to higher expected profits, leading to underinvestment in less profitable goals. Findings are based on portfolio data, surveys, and interviews with 60 high-net-worth individuals.
How to achieve deforestation-free pensions
This guide provides investors with a roadmap for creating deforestation-free pension portfolios. It offers strategies and best practices for identifying and mitigating deforestation risks, ensuring responsible investment in pension funds.
Handbook for the implementation of nature-based solutions for water security: Guidelines for designing an implementation and financing arrangement
This handbook offers operational advice and project preparation guidelines, including hands-on formats that project proponents can use continuously and iteratively to develop the entire business case of NbS, enabling them to go from the idea stage towards an investment proposal or investment project stage that can be effectively assessed by potential investors. To illustrate the use of these guidelines the handbook presents the results of their application to three cases in Europe within the NAIAD project and to one case in Asia that was part of the Water as Leverage for Resilient Cities Asia programme.
Financing transformations: A guide to green building for green bonds and green loans
The report provides a guide to sustainable finance in the real estate sector, focusing on green building projects eligible for green bonds and loans. It details key principles, certification frameworks like BREEAM and LEED, and sustainable finance's role in addressing climate action, resource efficiency, and social impact.
Accelerating finance for nature: Barriers and recommendations for scaling private sector investment
This report assesses the barriers and opportunities for scaling private sector investment in natural capital. It outlines key recommendations, including the establishment of a Nature Finance Accelerator, to drive financial flows towards nature. The study highlights the importance of overcoming low returns, small deal sizes, and high transaction costs to attract private investment.
From fragmentation to integration: Embedding social issues in sustainable finance
The report calls for integrating social risks into financial strategies. It emphasises the interconnectedness of social and environmental issues and recommends enhancing research, standards, and tools to address socio-economic inequalities, promoting financial stability and sustainability.
Hindsight Consultancy
Founded in 2016, Hindsight Consultancy advises on climate change, natural capital, and ESG, offering services to entities such as major credit ratings agencies, European asset managers, the European Commission, and the UN Environment Programme. They provide strategic guidance, investor relations support, and market research in the ESG and climate data sector.
IDEEA Group
IDEEA Group is a consultancy specialising in natural capital accounting, a method to measure the value of nature's benefits. They help businesses understand the environmental impact of their activities through data and scientific methods.
Managing environmental, social and governance risks in non-life insurance business
The paper provides guidance and recommended actions to manage environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks in the non-life insurance business and to integrate ESG issues into the insurance underwriting process. It outlines eight areas of action to manage ESG risks supporting the Principles for Sustainable Insurance.