clear
clear

Latest Results from /sustainable

Paige McNamee

Paige McNamee Senior Reporter at Finextra

The future of ESGTech: Goal 8 - Decent work and economic growth

Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all. This is an extract from Finextra's The Future of ESGTech 2022 report. Focus target 8.10: Strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all...

/sustainable

Níamh Curran

Níamh Curran Senior Reporter at Finextra

The future of ESGtech: Goal 7 - Affordable and clean energy

Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. This is an extract from Finextra's The Future of ESGTech 2022 report. Focus target 7.a: By 2030, enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced and cleaner fossil-...

/sustainable

Madhvi Mavadiya

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

The future of ESGtech: Goal 6 - Clean water and sanitation

Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. This is an extract from Finextra's The Future of ESGTech 2022 report. Focus Target 6.a: By 2030, expand international cooperation and capacity-building support to developing countries in water- and sanitation-related activities and programmes, including water harvestin...

/sustainable

Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Reporter at Finextra

The future of ESGtech: Goal 5 - Gender equality

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. This is an extract from Finextra's The Future of ESGTech 2022 report. Focus Target 5.5: Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life. Financial institutions have the potential to...

/sustainable

Paige McNamee

Paige McNamee Senior Reporter at Finextra

The future of ESGtech: Goal 4 - Quality education

Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. This is an extract from Finextra's The Future of ESGTech 2022 report. Focus Target 4.b: By 2020, substantially expand globally the number of scholarships available to developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island deve...

/sustainable

Níamh Curran

Níamh Curran Senior Reporter at Finextra

The future of ESGTech: Goal 3 - Good health and wellbeing

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. This is an extract from Finextra's The Future of ESGTech 2022 report. Focus Target 3.c: Substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small ...

/sustainable

Madhvi Mavadiya

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

The future of ESGtech: Goal 2 - Zero hunger

End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. This is an extract from Finextra's The Future of ESGTech 2022 report. Focus Target 2.3: By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fish...

/sustainable

Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Reporter at Finextra

Innovation in service: Supercharging Jersey’s sustainable finance offering

Keen to meet growing investor demands for transparency on the impact of their portfolios, private wealth managers and fund administration firms are increasingly utilising technology-based sustainable finance solutions to upscale their ESG practice. There are, however, some key challenges that need to be addressed, such as: how do we quantify these ...

/sustainable

Madhvi Mavadiya

Madhvi Mavadiya Head of Content at Finextra

The future of ESGtech: Goal 1 - No poverty

End poverty in all its forms everywhere. This is an extract from Finextra's The Future of ESGTech 2022 report. Focus Target 1.4: By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property...

/sustainable

Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Reporter at Finextra

Fixing finance from the ground up: The fight for afforestation

Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest just hit its highest level in over 15 years, despite Brazil – along with 100 other world leaders – promising to end deforestation by 2030, at Glasgow’s Climate Summit, COP26. According to official data from Brazil's space research agency, Inpe, 13,235 sq km has been lost during the 2020-21 period. This rate o...

/sustainable

Simon Kent

Simon Kent Global Head of Financial Services at Kearney

A "wall of capital" — and a watershed moment for the transition to net zero

COP26 was not short on big announcements—and the Finance Day, Wednesday 3rd November, was one of the biggest. Holding aloft a green budget box, UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak stated that the 450 banks, insurers, pension funds, and assets managers that make up the Glasgow Financial Alliance of Net Zero (GFANZ) have pledged to put the fight against clima...

/sustainable

Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Reporter at Finextra

Busting sustainable finance myths: Why Tariq Fancy is only half right on ESG, part 2

Blackrock’s former sustainable investing chief, Tariq Fancy, has made nine key claims against the environmental, social and governance (ESG) movement. While the ensuing discussion has shone a light into some of the asset management industry’s darkest corners, there are some myopic myths that need to be busted. Finextra, alongside founder of Respon...

/sustainable