Stella Xu

Nov 19, 2023 | top1000funds.com | Matthew Leatherman |Sarah Rundell |Herman Bril |Stella Xu

Investors and corporations will arrive in Dubai for COP28 later this month, and the world is depending on them to recognize and address a paradox: ordinary net zero 2050 commitments are one of the biggest threats to achieving net zero carbon emissions in 2050. While paradoxical, this is quite simple to understand. On their own, net-zero commitments reward divestment, and that merely changes the ownership of dirty assets, not emissions into the atmosphere.

Nov 13, 2023 | top1000funds.com | Sarah Rundell |Tim Fish Hodgson |Herman Bril |Stella Xu

Modern portfolio theory is useful in a world where the future is just like the past. But when it comes to climate change, the future is likely to be dramatically different requiring a new framework for decision-useful climate scenarios. Speaking at Sustainability in Practice at Oxford University, Mark Cliffe, Visiting Fellow at Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter said that long-term scenarios looking years into the future are not necessarily decision-useful.

Nov 13, 2023 | top1000funds.com | Sarah Rundell |Tim Fish Hodgson |Herman Bril |Stella Xu

ESG-momentum matters when it comes to outperformance according to new research by Pictet Asset Management’s head of sustainability Eric Borremans who says investors should sharpen their ESG lens and use active ownership to trigger positive change.

Nov 6, 2023 | top1000funds.com | Sarah Rundell |Herman Bril |Stella Xu |Amanda White

Global investors have committed to net zero, but implementation around those commitments is slow with little action on the ground. “We are seeing lots of commitments but not much implementation,” said Carola van Lamoen, head of sustainable investing at asset manager Robeco, opening Sustainability in Practice at Oxford University where attendees have collective assets under management of $8.5 trillion and include some 64 global asset owners.

Oct 10, 2023 | top1000funds.com | Herman Bril |Stella Xu |Sarah Rundell |Aleks Vickovich

Biodiversity, transition finance and a sense of urgency around climate resilience and mitigation were some of the focus areas of Climate Week 2023 in New York, dubbed the “Burning Man for Climate Geeks”. PSP Investments’ Herman Bril and Stella Y. Xu reflect for Top1000funds.com on the highlights from Climate Week which they attended this year. They didn’t attend Burning Man in 2023.