Silvia Pavoni

The latest edition of our Sustainable Views newsletter Dear reader,

The latest edition of our Sustainable Views newsletter Dear reader,

The latest edition of our Sustainable Views newsletter Dear reader,

The latest edition of our Sustainable Views newsletter Dear reader,

Renewable energy infrastructure as well as clear asset definitions are essential in a green and just economy At the end of November, Italian energy infrastructure group Snam announced it had earmarked up to €23bn for investments in energy networks, storage and renewable sources. The group aims to have 80 per cent of its funding covered by sustainable finance products by 2025, from the current 60 per cent.

The multinational energy group does not believe in offsetting and plans to get all its business and retail customers to abandon gas as it aims to cut emissions to zero over the next two decades Energy group Enel has recently announced it will dedicate the next 10 years to switching its customers fully out of gas and towards reliance on electricity for all their energy needs, which, says chief financial officer Alberto De Paoli, will help them shave about 40 per cent off their bills and cut 80 pe…

Acciona’s CEO on carbon pricing, green desalination, and the company’s soon-to-be-launched electric vehicles Talking to Sustainable Views in Glasgow during COP26, José Manuel Entrecanales is not convinced he should be there at all. “I’m not sure whether, now [after 26 UN climate conferences] negotiating specific items needs to happen in a quieter environment,” says the CEO of Spanish conglomerate Acciona.

The head of the California-based advisory and index firm talks about ethics, impact and data. Consultant and index provider Wilshire is ramping up its work on environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles, says CEO Mark Makepeace.

New study reveals different ‘ESG cultures’ across Europe’s top firms Amundi is the European asset manager best placed to generate environmental, social and governance-linked capital flows and benefit from the growth of the sustainable finance market, according to research by Citi, which considered factors such as the integration of sustainability into investment decisions, ESG funds performance, but also companies’ level of ‘activism’ expressed through their willingness to vote against management based on ESG concerns.

After becoming the first European lender approved by the Science Based Targets initiative, La Banque Postale is now looking at formally including ESG considerations in its legal status La Banque Postale has put science behind its sustainability claims and, in October, it became the first European lender – and one of only three financial institutions of the world – to have its strategy validated by the Science Based Targets initiative. The independent body led by four organisations, including the Carbon Disclosure Project, has found the decarbonisation strategy of the French state-owned bank to be compatible with the goal of keeping global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius.