To engineer a successful culture shift that supports and promotes responsible investing, financial institutions, and particularly asset owners, have to not only talk the talk but also walk the walk. The UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) outlines seven steps asset owners can take to develop a culture of responsible investment. Here are four defining … Continue reading How to Develop A Culture Of Responsible Investment?

After ten years of Lehman Brothers collapse the question remains, is it enough, as an investor, to merely manage your financial risk and ignore all other non-financial factors? It was painful to the whole world to see the global economy melting due to the absence of acting upon fiduciary obligation. And the story goes on, … Continue reading Why Responsible Investment?

  Imagine life without fresh, clean water. That is one of the risks looming over the GCC nations. They are among the largest consumers of water with some of the lowest natural water reserves in the world.   There is a huge gap between Norway (76,117 cu.mt.) and GCC countries in terms of internal water … Continue reading #GCC_Sustainability (17/17): Water

Oil and Gas exporting countries of the GCC have realized the importance of transition towards renewable energy. With all of them almost 100% dependent on fossil fuel energy consumption, they are expected to have only enough for domestic consumption by 2030 (World Bank). All of them therefore are now ‘Catching the Sun’ quite literally. For … Continue reading #GCC_Sustainability (16/17): Energy

With increasing population, development and consumption patterns, world resources are more strained than ever before. Ecological assets are at the core of e very nation's long-term wealth and their conservation, one of the prime objectives of nations across the world. It is therefore important to understand how it is measured. Global Footprint Network, a non-profit … Continue reading #GCC_Sustainability (15/17): Bio-capacity, Footprint and Carbon Emissions