Finanças Sustentáveis

SITAWI Finance for Good is the new coordinator of the Climate Financing cluster from the Latin American Observatory for Climate Action (OLAC). The group aims to monitor the financial streams to commitments taken by countries from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in response to the Paris Agreement. Another goal is to provide technical assistance to facilitate the access and management of climate financing. The group is led by Fred

Voting is open for the world’s biggest research on Responsible Investment, the Independent Research on Responsible Investment – IRRI 2019. Once again, SITAWI has been nominated for multiple categories, establishing itself as the largest Sustainable Finance research and consultancy practice in Latin America. Employees of asset managers, asset owners, investment consultants, sell-side analysts, independent research providers, the IR & CSR directors of quoted companies, consultants, and industry experts are allowed to

Nominated by the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT), SITAWI’s Director of Sustainable Finance, Gustavo Pimentel, will be a part of the international expert group charged with developing ISO 14030, which aims to standardize the requirements for the classification of a green bond. Two other Brazilian organizations, FEBRABAN and the consulting firm Sust4in, will also be a part of this group. The new standard of the ISO 14000 series, which

Sustainable forest management and wind power dominate use of proceeds. New State of the Market Report predicts growth in the low-carbon agriculture and transportation sector. São Paulo, October 2nd 2017 – The Brazilian labelled green bonds market has now reached $3.67bn thanks to national companies – the latest results in the second edition of the Brazil State of the Market Report. From June 2015, (when BRF inaugurated the market) to

Frederico Seifert, SITAWI’s Sustainable Finance Manager, spoke at the 4th Sustainable Dialogues event, which occurred on September 21st and 22nd, in Brasilia. The meeting brought together representatives of the Brazilian Biodiversity Fund (Funbio), the Ministry of the Environment, Public Prosecutors, and third sector institutions to discuss the challenges and opportunities of funding environmental conservation projects in Brazil. During the Innovation panel, Seifert discussed impact investing and the importance of innovating

The study “Responsible Investment in Brazil 2016: ESG Adoption by Pension Funds”, carried out by SITAWI, illustrates that several national pension funds have already made progress in integrating ESG aspects into their internally managed assets, but they have carried out fewer changes to encourage their external managers to practice responsible investment as well. To allow pension funds to evolve in that direction, SITAWI developed the technical content for the elaboration

SITAWI represents Brazil once again in the world’s largest research on Responsible Investment, Independent Research on Responsible Investment – IRRI 2017. Whether you work for a Quoted Company, Asset manager, Asset Owner or Sell-side brokers, this is an opportunity to provide feedback on Corporate Governance (CG) and Responsible Investment (SRI) research providers. We ask your vote and your colleagues in the following categories: IRRI 2017 – Quoted companies Which SRI

SITAWI was engaged to design and monitor the implementation of the Environmental and Social Risk Management System (ESMS) at Banco Hipotecario, in El Salvador. The ESMS will cover the social and environmental risk management of the bank’s small and medium-sized rural and urban portfolios. Required by the Brazilian Central Bank since 2015, the ESMS is still at a nascent stage in some Latin American countries, despite its many benefits: an

The global green bond market saw $81 billion issued in 2016. To accompany this trend, the Brazilian Development Association (ABDE), together with the Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM) and the Inter-American Development Bank, launched the Financial Innovation Lab on August 3. The aim of the Lab is to bring together different stakeholders in an intersectoral discussion forum to generate knowledge and foster financial tools for sustainable development. The event took

Sao Paulo’s BM&FBOVESPA links ISE to SDG by Carlos Tornero | December 7th, 2016 Brazilian exchange BM&FBOVESPA will make it compulsory for the constituents of its Corporate Sustainability Index (ISE) to disclose their policies related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which for the first time have been included among the criteria to participate in the index. It comes as the SDGs are starting to appear on the agenda of investors;

The event reunited investor to discuss the social and environmental performance of the Corporate Sustainability Report Pioneers Working Group and had the presence of Gustavo Pimentel from SITAWI as mediator. The third edition of ESG Invest Briefing took place last Tuesday, October 17, at BM&FBOVESPA, in São Paulo. The event, organized by CEBDS, GRI and CDP, is part of activities from the Brazilian Commission for Integrated Reporting and had Gustavo

By Beatriz Ferrari* Brazil climbed 14 places on the ranking of the world’s stock exchanges on disclosure of sustainability data, published annually by the Canadian financial research company Corporate Knights. The ‘Measuring Sustainability Disclosure: Ranking the World’s Stock Exchanges 2016’ report assesses 45 stock exchanges worldwide, representing 4,469 large publicly traded companies. BM&FBovespa showed a remarkable improvement, improving to 10th from  26th in 2015 and 24th in 2014. Around 70%