By Samuel ISENSCHMID, Arnd HEßELER and Jil BIRGEL, zeb consulting*
For a long time investors where mainly focused on two parameters: investment objectives and risk tolerance. Driven by new regulatory requirements on climate and environment as well a changing mindset in society, investor standards against asset managers are slowly changing. In this article we will present the main measures through which Europe aims counter climate change by means of private investments.
History was made in Paris on 12 December 2015, when the Parisian Climate Agreement was signed at the UN Climate Change Conference which took place for two weeks. Compared to the Kyoto Protocol, the climate conference agreement goes a step further since the protocol only...
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