We provide our clients with a full service of sustainability support – from source data through to client reporting. We pride ourselves on offering bespoke and tailored advice to our clients. Here is a selection of insights that underpin our advice.
Transforming Global Finance for Climate Action
Despite global recognition of the climate crisis, rational investors continue to be incentivised to fund unsustainable activities.The Global Sustainable Investment Alliance’s report – prepared by Canbury – reveals a fundamental…
Investing for Sustainability Impact: A Practical Framework
The report “Investing for Sustainability Impact” makes the case for institutional investors to incorporate sustainability impact into investment strategies. This work by PRI, UNEP Finance Initiative and the Generation Foundation builds on their Legal Framework for Impact research.
Trip to the Boreal Forest
It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.” – Rachel Carson, Silent Spring.
AY Young
At Canbury, I typically work with asset managers, pension funds, companies and NGOs to help them meet their sustainability goals. However, I was pleased to get creative in pursuit of our mission of making sustainability meaningful – finding the intersection between sustainability and music!
nature policy
Following the King’s Speech last week, laying out Labour’s legislative priorities for its first few months in office, we take a look at the current and future picture for nature in the UK
Divulgaciones climáticas en LATAM
Los gobiernos latinoamericanos están mejorando las medidas de cambio climático, alineadas con los estándares internacionales de presentación de informes. Estos movimientos son impulsados por la región, que conoce el año más caluroso de su historia, marcado por sequías exacerbadas y condiciones climáticas extremas.
Carbon Offsets
Carbon offsets are a controversial part of decarbonising the economy. They have made headlines a number of times, most recently due to the Science Based Target Initiative’s (SBTi) Board of Trustee’s announcement that they intend to allow “Environmental Attribute Certificates” to be used in the attainment of companies’ Net Zero targets.
Water Sustainability in Industry
As pressures on water such as climate change, population growth, and industrialisation continue to grow and, consequently, so too water scarcity, understanding and mitigating water-related risks is becoming an evermore important component of investors’ sustainability objectives.
Responsible Investing in the Middle East
With COPs in Sharm-El-Sheikh, Dubai, and this year, Baku, attention to climate change is growing in the Middle East; quickly following, is attention to responsible investment. Here, we analyse the opportunities we see in the region.
Conflict
As a sustainability theme, conflict is not one that’s well-covered by investors. Our briefing explores the steps investors can take.
The Inflation Reduction Act
Up to $1 trillion of public funding for clean energy and climate transition is made available by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 plus related packages (inc. The Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act (IIJA) and The CHIPS and Science Act (CHIPS)).
corporate sustainability due diligence directive
CSDDD is a European Union directive that mandates companies to conduct and report on due diligence regarding human rights and environmental impacts within their operations and supply chains.
European Sustainability Reporting Standards
Our short investor-focused briefing on the ESRS and CSRD.
Net Zero targets
Most investors have (or soon will) set a net zero target. Here we set out the characteristics of good-practice net zero target-setting.
Transition Plans
The UK government, in its commitment during COP26, established the Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) “Disclosure Framework”
Scenarios
This briefing introduces some of the challenges associated with scenarios – and how we can help solve them.
Fiduciary Duties
Decisions made by fiduciaries cascade through the intermediation chain and in turn through the investment decision-making process.
Social issues
For a few reasons, investors tend to give social issues less attention than environmental issues. Here we set out how investors should address social issues.
Biodiversity and nature
This briefing introduces biodiversity, nature, natural ecosystems and natural capital.
Trip to the Boreal Forest
It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.” – Rachel Carson, Silent Spring.
AY Young
At Canbury, I typically work with asset managers, pension funds, companies and NGOs to help them meet their sustainability goals. However, I was pleased to get creative in pursuit of our mission of making sustainability meaningful – finding the intersection between sustainability and music!
nature policy
Following the King’s Speech last week, laying out Labour’s legislative priorities for its first few months in office, we take a look at the current and future picture for nature in the UK
Divulgaciones climáticas en LATAM
Los gobiernos latinoamericanos están mejorando las medidas de cambio climático, alineadas con los estándares internacionales de presentación de informes. Estos movimientos son impulsados por la región, que conoce el año más caluroso de su historia, marcado por sequías exacerbadas y condiciones climáticas extremas.
Carbon Offsets
Carbon offsets are a controversial part of decarbonising the economy. They have made headlines a number of times, most recently due to the Science Based Target Initiative’s (SBTi) Board of Trustee’s announcement that they intend to allow “Environmental Attribute Certificates” to be used in the attainment of companies’ Net Zero targets.
Water Sustainability in Industry
As pressures on water such as climate change, population growth, and industrialisation continue to grow and, consequently, so too water scarcity, understanding and mitigating water-related risks is becoming an evermore important component of investors’ sustainability objectives.
Responsible Investing in the Middle East
With COPs in Sharm-El-Sheikh, Dubai, and this year, Baku, attention to climate change is growing in the Middle East; quickly following, is attention to responsible investment. Here, we analyse the opportunities we see in the region.
Conflict
As a sustainability theme, conflict is not one that’s well-covered by investors. Our briefing explores the steps investors can take.
Look ahead to 2024
We’re look ahead to 2024 to see what investors might expect from the months ahead.
The Inflation Reduction Act
Up to $1 trillion of public
funding for clean
energy and climate
transition is made
available by the
Inflation Reduction Act
(IRA) of 2022 plus
related packages (inc.
The Infrastructure and
Investment Jobs Act
(IIJA) and The CHIPS
and Science Act
(CHIPS)).
corporate sustainability due diligence directive
CSDDD is a European Union directive that mandates companies to conduct and report on due diligence regarding human rights and environmental impacts within their operations and supply chains.
European Sustainability Reporting Standards
Our short investor-focused briefing on the ESRS and CSRD.
Net Zero targets
Most investors have (or soon will) set a net zero target. Here we set out the characteristics of good-practice net zero target-setting.
Transition Plans
The UK government, in its commitment during COP26, established the Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) “Disclosure Framework”
Social issues
For a few reasons, investors tend to give social issues less attention than environmental issues. Here we set out how investors should address social issues.
Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
For Canbury clients only. Get in touch for further details.
Vote Consistency
In 2021, the UK Department for Work and Pensions commissioned a nonbinding study on split voting.
Scenarios
This briefing introduces some of the challenges associated with scenarios – and how we can help solve them.
Fiduciary Duties
Decisions made by fiduciaries cascade through the intermediation chain
and in turn through the investment decision-making process.
Biodiversity and nature
This briefing introduces biodiversity, nature, natural ecosystems and natural capital.