Archive

• L&G urges UK government to build more sustainable houses

  10 July 2020

  Boris Johnson to relax laws surrounding house building

• Call for bonds to back sustainable palm oil

  18 June 2019

  Legal & General Investment Management’s head of sustainability advocates the use of bonds to showcase good practice

• Insurers back calls for governments to implement net-zero emission strategies without delay

  02 May 2019

  UK, Dutch and Swedish insurers urge governments to start implementing plans to be carbon neutral by 2050

• Sustainable investments: linking positive outcomes and financial returns

  08 November 2018

  Both seen as separate issues by investors, but data could bridge the gap panel tells Bloomberg’s sustainable business summit

• Investor group takes pension funds to task on climate change

  17 October 2018

  IIGCC, reminds 12 UK pension funds of their duties in assessing financial risks from climate change

• LGIM pressures international standards body to adopt TCFD

  23 August 2018

  Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has thrown its weight behind calls for the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) to adopt harmonised climate risk reporting.

• LGIM announces exclusions from its £5bn Future World Funds

  12 June 2018

  Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has named the companies it regards as leaders and laggards on climate change issues, as part of its attempt to remove climate-related risk from its £5 billion ($6.7 billion) Future World funds.

• The case for ESG

  From the diesel emissions scandal to the perceived exploitation of zero-hour contracts, there have been many examples in recent years of how failures in the way companies are run can have a harmful impact on the environment, society and investor returns.

• LGIM urges companies to focus on low-carbon opportunities

  08 October 2015

  Don't just look at the risks, the firm says