June 2025
06Jun

PensionsEurope’s Position Paper on the European Commission’s Omnibus Simplification Proposal

By Pension Europe PensionsEurope welcomes the European Commission (EC) initiative which aims to align crucial EU legislation concerning Sustainable Finance. PensionsEurope firmly believes that the competitiveness of the EU economy is vital, it is possible to reduce the administrative burden without undermining the EU's policy objectives regarding the green transition. However, any simplification should be carefully balanced to ensure that material sustainability information on risks, opportunities, and impacts-critical to informed investor decision-making-is preserved. Accordingly, the Omnibus package should aim to streamline...

June 6, 2025
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03Jun

New York City Pension Funds Double Down On Decarbonization – New Expectations Will Impact Managers And Their Portfolio Companies

Over the last few months, most of the attention in the climate space in the U.S. has been on the dramatic, and expected, shift in federal government policy. United States New York Environment Over the last few months, most of the attention in the climate space in the U.S. has been on the dramatic, and expected, shift in federal government policy. However, some "blue state" officials continue to seek to advance decarbonization agendas. In this post, we discuss recently announced...

June 3, 2025
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May 2025
22May

Canada’s top pension fund drops net-zero emissions target

Pension and climate activist group Shift on Wednesday criticized Canada's top pension's plan to abandon its net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 commitment. The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), which manages C$714.4 billion ($516.93 billion) in assets, said it planned to abandon the commitment announced in February 2022 to make its operations and investment portfolio align with the goal. Shift said the change, covered in the FAQ section of its website, was made on Wednesday but Reuters could not...

May 22, 2025
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April 2025
24Apr

UK. Mind the gap: younger DC members care about the planet, their pension funds should take note

Today, we manage pensions for members living very different lives, different ages, different time horizons, different priorities. Yet too often, we rarely ask them: "What do you want from your money?" Younger members are already telling us. Over 80% of under-40s in the UK care about climate change. They want their savings to deliver purpose, impact, and value not just financial return and they want to be able to retire into a liveable world, not have to adapt just to survive in...

April 24, 2025
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16Apr

FSD Africa Commits GBP 10 M In ARM-Harith To Tap Nigeria’s Pension Power For Climate Equity

FSD Africa Investments (FSDAi), a UK-backed specialist development finance investor, has announced a GBP 10 M (USD 13.2 M) commitment into Lagos-based private equity firm ARM-Harith Infrastructure Investment Limited to unlock local institutional capital—specifically local pension funds—for climate infrastructure development. The investment, directed into ARM-Harith’s Climate and Transition Infrastructure Fund (ACT Fund), isn’t just another capital injection; it’s a bold attempt to solve a problem that’s kept billions in local pension assets parked on the sidelines. For years, Nigerian pension funds have been hesitant...

April 16, 2025
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March 2025
27Mar

UK. Three quarters of pension schemes have now adopted net-zero targets

Three quarters (75 per cent) of schemes have adopted net-zero targets, with more schemes than ever taking action to address climate risks, XPS analysis has revealed. The firm published a new analysis of 48 pension schemes' task force on climate-related financial disclosure (TCFD) reports to review climate change risk management and reporting approaches. This showed that three-quarters of schemes have adopted net zero targets, up from 60 per cent last year. Of these, 75 per cent have indicated clear plans aligned to...

March 27, 2025
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27Mar

U.S. Bill Seeks to Limit ESG Investments in Pension Funds

U.S. lawmakers target ESG in pensions: A U.S. bill previously rejected by Biden seeks to limit ESG factors in pension investments. InnoEnergy accounces €160B clean tech push: With focus on batteries, solar PV, and hydrogen, InnoEnergy mobilizes €160 billion for clean tech. Nvidia hit by China’s new energy efficiency rules: China’s stricter energy efficiency rules threaten chip sales. New PRI data reveals ESG investing remains strong: Report shows responsible investing is still growing despite political setbacks. U.S. lawmakers propose bill to curb ESG...

March 27, 2025
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11Mar

Pension funds should take climate risk more seriously, say experts

Pressure is mounting on pension funds to take more account of climate change risks, with campaigners calling on trustees to make sustainable investment decisions and use their voting power to push companies they invest in to go green. They also want  governments to consider tighter regulation to force transparency. The push comes as some big pension funds are already taking more action on climate despite US president Donald Trump’s hostility to ESG, and some companies are backtracking on climate commitments...

March 11, 2025
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05Mar

The 2023 Latin America report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for health-centred climate-resilient development

By Stella M. Hartinger, Yasna K. Palmeiro-Silva, Camila Llerena-Cayo, Luciana Blanco-Villafuerte, Luis E. Escobar, Avriel Diaz, Juliana Helo Sarmiento, Andrés G. Lescano, Oscar Melo, David Rojas-Rueda, Bruno Takahashi, Max Callaghan, Francisco Chesini, Shouro Dasgupta, Carolina Gil Posse, Nelson Gouveia, Aline Martins de Carvalho, Zaray Miranda-Chacón, Nahid Mohajeri, Chrissie Pantoja, Elizabeth J. Z. Robinson, Maria Fernanda Salas, Raquel Santiago, Enzo Sauma, Mauricio Santos-Vega, Daniel Scamman, Milena Sergeeva, Tatiana Souza de Camargo, Cecilia Sorensen, Juan D. Umaña, Marisol Yglesias-González, Maria Walawender,...

March 5, 2025
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03Mar

Climate Change May Drive Premature Aging

A new USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology study suggests greater exposure to extreme heat may accelerate biological aging in older adults, raising new concerns about how climate change and heat waves could affect long-term health and aging at the molecular level. People in neighborhoods that experience more days of high heat show greater biological aging on average than residents of cooler regions, said Jennifer Ailshire, senior author of the study and professor of gerontology and sociology at the USC Leonard Davis School. Biological...

March 3, 2025
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