Items tagged with CLIMATE CHANGE

In recent years, sustainable and responsible investment in Spain has grown not only in the quantity of assets managed under Environmental, Social and Governance criteria, but in the sophistication of the selection, integration and influence strategies applied. 

Transparency is a key tool to promote market discipline in the financial sector, allowing investors and users to better understand banks, compare and make informed decisions. The publication of information on environmental and climate change-related, social or governance aspects has gained increasing relevance as a tool to promote the role of financial institutions in financing investments that may contribute to a sustainable economy, and to highlight the need for banks to develop appropriate risk management frameworks. 

The pandemic that has devastated the world since March 2020 has generated a good number of lessons learned. Still pending to delve into many of them, numerous analyzes in this line are already coming to light.

According to Action Against Hunger, food insecurity in Nigeria registers a figure of 1.74 million children who suffered from malnutrition in the northern region of the country during 2022, while, by February 2023, just over 1.8 million of the inhabitants of Borno state have been internally displaced due to the activity of armed groups and bandits (OIM, 2023), and also, the several droughts, floods and land degradation due to climate change.