ECB Archives - Sustainable Value Investors

Corporate Governance, ESG, Financial Institutions / 01.08.2020

US Administration deterrence against ESG strategies

Despite the worldwide increase in ESG and sustainable investments, in the USA we are assisting to a great deterrence against ESG policies reviving the old objection they provide low returns, which has not been supported by the facts. In the last decade, a fundamental shift towards sustainable...

Climate change, Disinvestment, Financial Institutions, Senza categoria / 28.11.2019

ECB under pressure to ditch climate polluters from balance sheet

The European Central Bank should take "concrete action" to help tackle the climate crisis, more than 160 academics and civil society groups said in a letter to new ECB chief Christine Lagarde. "The most powerful financial institution in Europe cannot just sit passively as we witness...

Climate change, Senza categoria / 27.11.2019

Christine Lagarde wants key role for climate change in ECB review

According to the FT of November 27, 2019, Christine Lagarde, the new President of the European Central Bank (ECB) wants to set climate change as a priority goal for the ECB strategy and make the environment as a central topic of monetary policymaking. The reputational risk...