Vanguard Group’s announcement last week that they are now urging companies to disclose how climate change could affect their business & asset valuations is the latest in a rising tide of strategic realignments by asset owners & managers that shows the increasing importance of Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) criteria to investment decision making in 2017. There are now > 1400 signatories to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) committed to incorporating

Back in June, 300 US Mayors and counting, including almost all the major cities, and several US States, covering >20% of US GDP and population, pledged to remain within the 2/1.5 degree Paris COP commitment. City halls across the US were lit up in green in a co-ordinated action to reassure the global community that Americans are still serious about climate change. The Climate Mayors had been preparing for President Trump's announcement of withdrawal for many months prior. An