Penguin Perspectives Blog

What is Net Zero? How is it different from Climate Positive or Carbon Negative? Does Climate Neutrality still matter? Read on to get answers and direction on some of the big questions that many companies are asking today.

Together with Mintbase and the NEAR Foundation, South Pole is launching a green NFT auction. Proceeds will be split 50/50 between the artists and our climate action projects.

In the past 48 hours, the fossil fuel industry has been rocked by exciting developments in Europe, Australia and the United States that will have major ramifications for the sector. It is clear that stakeholders - including shareholders who are traditionally risk averse and not particularly pro-environment - are increasingly seeing the writing on the wall and recognising that fossil fuel companies need to accept climate change as a definitive business risk to have a profitable future.

Moneycab.com: Herr Heuberger, der Impact Investor Lightrock, hinter dem die liechtensteinische LGT und das Fürstenhaus von und zu Liechtenstein steht, übernimmt eine 10%-Beteiligung an South Pole. Wie kam es zum Engagement von Lightrock?

South Pole ensures environmental, social and financial sustainability for biodiversity conservation projects in a territory, working in partnership with local communities, adding value to operations and investments, and promoting/ implementing Nature Based Solutions .

We live in paradoxical times. On the one hand, many financial institutions are ramping up their sustainability work while at the same time maintaining - or even increasing - investments in the fossil fuel sector. Some even use their sustainability claims to divert attention from their nefarious actions. 

Our pensions have the power to shape a more sustainable future for all. Which is why, at South Pole, we’ve put our money where our mouth is. We’ve committed to ensuring that, within the next 20 months, all of our default pension providers across our 18 global offices are sustainable.

This post focuses on the effects of the new EU Taxonomy, a central tool for the actual implementation of the EU Green Deal, specifically in financing Europe’s sustainable growth.

Regierungen weltweit sehen die TCFD-Empfehlungen als das richtige Mittel, damit Unternehmen das Thema Klimawandel auf strategischer und operativer Ebene angehen können, so auch der Schweizer Bundesrat.

Presented at the Central Bank and Sovereign Wealth Fund Forum, hosted by the Deutsche Börse Group.