Sustainable Investing

Sustainability investments

Make haste slowly

25/05/2022 • Hans van Cleef

It cannot have escaped anyone's attention that climate policy and the energy transition feature prominently on agendas these days. But why does it all seem to be going so slowly?

ESG offers opportunities and risks

Sustainability

Investments

12/05/2022 • Judith Sanders

To mitigate further global warming, companies are preparing for the transition to a sustainable economy. Not every company is able or willing to go along with this. This creates risks. These sustainability risks can damage companies and indirectly also investments.

Energy transition - a bird’s eye view

Sustainability

Investments

28/04/2022

Whether to heat our homes, to cook our food or to get from A to B, for most of us it is unimaginable to do this without the use of energy. Depending on where we live, the source of energy varies hugely, but globally over 80% of our energy and 64% of electricity still comes from fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and gas¹.

Grey areas of green investing: electric vehicles

Sustainability

Investments

19/04/2022

A closer look at sustainability dilemmas

Sustainable investing is not always a matter of right or wrong. When selecting companies for a sustainable investment portfolio, you sometimes run into dilemmas. In this article we look at a concrete example of such a dilemma. We take a closer look at manufacturers of electric cars.

Biodiversity

The economic value of plants and animals

Sustainability

22/06/2022 • Judith Sanders

Throughout the world, plants and animals are disappearing due to human activities. 'This decreasing biodiversity deserves attention from investors, says Judith Sanders, investment strategist at ABN AMRO. It has a major impact on our society and the global economy.'

What ABN AMRO can learn from the World Wildlife Fund

Sustainability

Investments

21/07/2022

Involve nature in all financial decisions

How do you preserve biodiversity and prevent plants and animals from becoming extinct? 'Financial institutions have a key role to play here, says Avital van Meijeren Karp, Green Finance Specialist at the World Wildlife Fund. ABN AMRO seeks advice from WWF experts and others on how to take greater account of biodiversity.'

Grey areas of green investing

Sustainability

Investments

04/08/2022

A closer look at sustainability dilemmas

Sustainable investing is not always a matter of right or wrong. In this article we explore concrete examples of investment dilemmas from a sustainability perspective. This time, we look at a specific challenge related to the generation of wind energy.