Votorantim Cimentos: Decarbonizing Cement Production through Carbon Pricing

26 February 2025 - Cement production is highly energy-intensive and ubiquitous with infrastructure development. As Global Cement asserts, “There’s enough cement used every week to build a city the size of Paris.” Despite this, cement production remains accountable for a significant share of global CO₂ emissions. …

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Understanding Carbon Pricing and its Role in Real Estate Investment: The Case of Hines

26 February 2025 - Carbon pricing has become a critical consideration in real estate investment, significantly influencing decision-making and long-term planning. For Hines, a global real estate investment manager and leader in sustainability, carbon pricing offers both a strategic opportunity and a complex challenge. …

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The Role of Aon in Risk Management and the Climate Transition

26 February 2025 - Aon exists to shape decisions for the better—to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world. We provide our clients with advice and solutions that give them the clarity and confidence to make better decisions to protect and grow their business. …

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Driving Returns and Managing Risk for the Long-Term

Evan Siddall, Chief Executive Officer

1 March 2023 - As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) began to disrupt industries around the world, it became obvious that investment managers would have to harness the power of these technologies or risk being left behind. …

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Resilient Human Capital

Gregory C. Case, Chief Executive Officer

28 February 2024 - At Aon, we exist to shape decisions for the better – to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world. As our world becomes more volatile – economically, socially, and geopolitically – organizations and individuals are under constant pressure to make complex decisions, sometimes without the necessary facts, almost always at speed, and with a new degree of meaning and purpose.   …

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The Establishment of Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP)

Ronald Wuijster, Chief Executive Officer

1 March 2023 - APG Asset Management, together with, AustralianSuper, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) and PGGM in 2020, jointly established the Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP). …

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Innovation through the Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP)

Ronald Wuijster, Chief Executive Officer

28 February 2024 - In 2020, APG Asset Management, together with AustralianSuper, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI), and PGGM jointly established the Sustainable Development Investments Asset Owner Platform (SDI AOP). This platform seeks to accelerate investments that deliver on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and contribute to better financial and social outcomes for end beneficiaries. …

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Aligning capital with a focus on the future, not the exit

Andrew Telfer, CEO

1 March 2023 - At Baillie Gifford, we seek to be engaged, long-term owners of businesses. Our average holding period is over seven years and our preferred holding period is eternity. …

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When is “Long Term” Not Enough?

Andrew Telfer, Joint Senior Partner

28 February 2024 - One of the most valuable things long-term investors can do is to encourage the management of companies to invest for future growth even in the face of an unappreciative short-term market.   …

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Funding Long-horizon Innovation at Baillie Gifford

29 May 2023 - As an investment firm privately and wholly owned by its partners, Baillie Gifford thinks in decades, not quarters. This investment philosophy has been applied across the firm, manifesting itself in the management of the firm itself as well as in the way capital entrusted to Baillie Gifford’s care is managed. …

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Catalyzing Sustainability and Resilience

John Connaughton, Co-Managing Partner

28 February 2024 - Bain Capital’s enduring commitment to lasting impact has remained the heart of our work since our inception. We’ve sought to partner differently and help our portfolio companies realize their long-term potential as more sustainable leaders in their industries and stronger supporters of their employees and communities. …

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Building a sustainable locally-sourced campus while regenerating Glasgow

CS Venkatakrishnan, Group Chief Executive

1 March 2023 - Barclays set out to build something transformative, bringing the community together, helping entrepreneurs flourish, and supporting local enterprise. …

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