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  • Eco-acoustics technology demonstrates viable use in portfolio risk management

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    There is a growing need for methods to measure investee progress on achieving biodiversity goals. However, obtaining reliable real-time data to evaluate the success of corporate biodiversity management strategies, remains a key challenge.

  • Climate Change and Public Debt: two years later

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    Two years after their sharp analysis, Hilde Veelaert and Pim Burggraeve reach a clear conclusion: climate risk is no longer a peripheral concern — it has become a sovereign risk.

  • Is Climate Change a Hidden Driver of Future Inflation?

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    The COVID crisis of 2020 brought about a wave of prolonged, high inflation, largely caused by temporary disruptions in supply chains. Now that these disruptions have subsided, inflation in Europe appears to be returning to the desired level of 2%. But how stable is this stabilization?

  • Harold Naus hands over Cardano CEO-role Netherlands to Jorg Sunderman

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    After a successful and impressive decade, Harold Naus has decided to step down as CEO of Cardano Netherlands on April 1st 2025.

  • Marsh McLennan’s Mercer completes acquisition of Cardano

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    Mercer, a business of Marsh McLennan, today announced the completion of the acquisition of Cardano. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

  • Is sustainable investing activist?

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    Sustainable investing is not necessarily activist, but it raises questions about short-term profits versus long-term returns.

  • Engaging to address increasing global plastics consumption

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    Global plastics consumption has increased more than six-fold since 1980. This is causing high and rapidly increasing levels of plastic pollution, which poses serious risks to human health and biodiversity. Cardano participates and supports a variety of initiatives targeting different actors to address the plastic pollution crisis. One of the latest initiatives we supported was an investor statement calling petrochemical companies that produce plastic polymers to take stronger action towards plastics circularity.

  • Pricing and Rewarding Impact Can Restore Natural Balance

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    On Monday, June 17, 2024, the European Environment Council approved the Nature Restoration Law, marking a significant step in the protection of nature and climate in Europe. This is urgently needed, as the state of European nature and climate is deteriorating. What does this mean for Dutch farmers, the natural balance, and investors?

  • Cardano to be acquired by Marsh McLennan’s Mercer

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    Mercer, a business of Marsh McLennan and a global leader in redefining the world of work, reshaping retirement and investment outcomes, and unlocking real health and well-being, today announced that it reached an agreement to acquire Cardano in the UK and Netherlands. Read more here.

  • Fifty shades of grey: investing in arms and defence 

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    Many institutional investors typically excluded arms manufacturers in their sustainability policies. Has that changed since the moment aggressor Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022? Investing in arms and/or the defence sector has always been a sensitive issue.