Press release

High Meadows Institute (HMI) today announced the launch of the first phase of its new project, Sustainability in Capital Markets: Financing the Transition to a Sustainable Low-Carbon Economy. This initiative aims to identify the most effective opportunities for key financial market actors – including asset managers, asset owners, and intermediaries – to increase their support for the transition to a sustainable low-carbon economy (SLCE). The first phase of the project takes a step back to assess how the financial sector as a whole currently perceives and engages with the SLCE transition. To date, most sustainable finance research has focused on…

Leaders of global corporations and financial institutions are facing heightened expectations to play a role in addressing a wide range of social, political, and environmental challenges, including climate change, racial justice and equity, geopolitics, and politically sensitive issues. The largest global banks, whose systemic importance has garnered the attention of regulators and activists, face particular scrutiny.