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In Fixed on ESG, PGIM Fixed Income’s rotating lineup of ESG-expert hosts explore the latest topics and trends of ESG investing. We’ll provide our take on the investment implications and value opportunities we see in this space and how changes in the market may directly affect our decision making. Subscribe to hear from PGIM Fixed Income thought leaders, as well as industry professionals and some of our clients.
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The Potential of Sustainable Aviation Fuel
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The aviation industry is under the sustainability microscope with recent estimates finding that it contributes to 6% of total global warming. This episode of Fixed on ESG explores the role of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) in mitigating aviation's environmental impact, the contrasting policy approaches in the U.S. and EU, and discusses the potenti…
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Part 2: Navigating the Low Carbon Transition with Temperature Alignment
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Tackling the intricacies of ESG investing in a warming world is a top challenge for today's investors. In the second half of this two-part series, we explore the practical application of temperature alignment in investment strategies, detail the limitations of third-party ESG data, and introduce PGIM Fixed Income’s proprietary Temperature Alignment…
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Part 1: Navigating the Low Carbon Transition with Temperature Alignment
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In the face of escalating climate challenges, temperature alignment is taking center stage and helping to reshape climate-conscious investment strategies. In the first of a two-part series, we delve deeper into this innovative tool and its role in the low carbon transition, understanding the shift from excluding to backing certain issuers critical …
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The Elephant in the Room: Overcoming Biodiversity Data Challenges
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The vital role of biodiversity across social and economic dependencies has captured the attention of ESG investors. With biodiversity in focus and a surge of new datasets to inform investment considerations, we explore how biodiversity is measured, approaches to investing in nature, how we tackled some of the complexities in biodiversity data when …
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Deciphering ESG in Emerging Markets: A Closer Look at Risk and Bias
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For fixed income ESG investors, gaining a deeper understanding of emerging markets is crucial as standard ESG assessments may neglect the complex economic and social dynamics that influence positive ESG impact as well as investment risks and opportunities in these regions. In this episode of Fixed on ESG, Nuvneet Dhillon, CFA, ESG Specialist, highl…
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A Growing Gap: Exploring Progress on Global Decarbonisation
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Several major reports were released just ahead of this year’s COP28 in the UAE on the state of climate action, the widening gap between actual progress and policies on decarbonization, and what would be needed to limit warming to well below 2°C. In this second of a two-part instalment of PGIM Fixed Income’s Fixed on ESG, James Malone, CFA, ESG Rese…
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COP28: Dissecting Climate Progress and Pledges
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COP28, which was hosted in the UAE, has come to a close. In the first of a two-part instalment of PGIM Fixed Income’s Fixed on ESG, James Malone, CFA, ESG Research Specialist, and John Ploeg, CFA, Co-Head of ESG Research, analyse the key takeaways of the COP. The duo take a closer look at the results of the first-ever Global Stocktake, discuss the …
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Climate Finance: Support for Developing Countries Amidst Climate Change
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Climate finance has gained significant attention over the past decade due to the increase in extreme climate events around the world. While developed countries have been the largest contributors to climate change, it’s developing countries that often feel the worst of the impacts as they struggle to finance resources to respond, rebuild, and protec…
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Plastic Packaging Predicament: The Best-Worst Option
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With the use of plastic packaging on the rise, the issue of plastic waste looms large and complex. Plastic is a prevalent part of our lives, but this widespread use poses alarming consequences to the environment and to our health. In this episode of PGIM Fixed Income’s Fixed on ESG, David Klausner, ESG Specialist, hosts guests James Malone, CFA, ES…
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Cyber-savviness: Weighing Today’s Cybersecurity Risks and Impacts on Tomorrow’s Investments
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Cybersecurity impacts every industry and, for many issuers, the consequences of a breach could be disastrous—as we’ve seen in a number of recent high-profile cases. As investors analysing the current cybersecurity landscape from an ESG risk and ESG impact perspective, we believe that a lack of understanding or investment in cybersecurity is simply …
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The Price of Power: The Impact of Wildfires on Utilities
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Damaged power lines are a leading cause of wildfires around the world and serve as a significant vulnerability to the service providers who operate them. The cost of upgrading and repairing transmission and distribution lines is high, but costs related to the legal liabilities faced by these entities in the face of a wildfire can be enormous and, t…
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Deep-sea Treasure Trove: Opportunity or Risk?
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Although deep-sea mining has never occurred at commercial scale, the growing interest in the minerals and metals found on the seabed could prompt a shift in the status quo. As the world looks to address climate change, increased demand for required base metals and critical minerals that support large scale deployments of green technologies is a rea…
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Energizing a Greener Future with Clean Hydrogen and the Northeastern Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub
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Clean hydrogen has garnered considerable attention in recent years due to its potential to address hard-to-decarbonize sectors—or—as James Malone, CFA, ESG Specialist, and host of this month’s podcast likes to refer to them, “hard-to-electrify sectors.” These are sectors where electrification has historically been—for a variety of reasons—less attr…
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Desalination: A Potential Solution for Freshwater Scarcity?
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In some areas, population explosion has exhausted freshwater supplies, and globally the impacts of a warming climate have caused the slow depletion of the freshwater resources available. The search for solutions to freshwater scarcity has intensified and led some municipalities to explore desalination, or the process of turning saltwater into fresh…
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The Unaffordable Truth: A Look at the Affordable Housing Crisis
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The existing stock of affordable housing in the U.S. is becoming largely obsolete at the same time the development of replacement properties has lagged. As a result, the affordable housing supply in the U.S. is in crisis. In this episode of PGIM Fixed Income’s Fixed on ESG, David Klausner, ESG Specialist, sits down with Ola Hixon, Executive Directo…
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We Have Ignition—Can investment in nuclear fusion solve the climate crisis?
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Nuclear fusion is making headlines with the first ever demonstration of fusion ignition by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Why is this so groundbreaking? Nuclear fusion is a clean source of energy, and there are many benefits to fusion over its more controversial counterpart, nuclear fission. Some are even painting fusion as THE solutio…
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Biodiversity 101: Dissecting COP15 with Planet Tracker
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The long awaited 2022 United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) was held this past December in Montreal. Biodiversity is hugely important to us all for our basic, everyday needs, but biodiversity loss is not just an ecological threat as half of global GDP is dependent on nature in some way. With hopes that COP15 would produce a Paris Agreement…
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With the conclusion of COP27 this past November in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, on this episode of Fixed on ESG, PGIM Fixed Income’s John Ploeg, CFA, Co-Head of ESG Research, has invited Birgit Jakobsen, Senior ESG Analyst, to join him in highlighting the major takeaways from the conference. These include: updates to some of the nationally determined co…
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In this episode of Fixed on ESG, PGIM Fixed Income’s Armelle de Vienne, Co-Head of ESG Research, and Kunal Patel, CFA, Head of Client Advisory for UK, Middle East and Africa, host a Q&A with special guest, Sarika Goel, Global Head of Sustainable Investment Research for Mercer. Listen for thoughts on: drivers of demand for ESG-labelled fixed income …
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With the 27th annual UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) underway in Egypt, what do investors need to know? In this episode of Fixed on ESG, Elizabeth Burgess, Client Manager, sits down with John Ploeg, CFA, Co-head of ESG Research, to set the scene for listeners and provide background on the big-ticket issues we all should be monitoring, includin…
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What could electric vehicles and California’s 2035 ban on the sale of gas-powered autos mean for autos manufacturers and what peripheral factors do fixed income investors need to consider? PGIM Fixed Income’s own Alistair Shepheard-Walwyn, Investment Analyst and ESG Specialist, John Smigelsky, CFA, U.S. IG Credit Research Analyst, and Megi Leka, Sr…
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Exclusions and Green Bonds: There’s No Quick Fix
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ESG investing has gained a lot of traction in recent years, but even with its growing popularity, many misconceptions still exist around how an ESG portfolio strategy should be structured to attain a dual mandate of making a positive impact and striving for solid performance. In this episode, John Ploeg, CFA, Co-head of ESG Research, and Anna de Jo…
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Deep Dive into Blue Bonds with Mark Spalding
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In this episode, Armelle de Vienne, Co-head of ESG Research (and certified divemaster), invited Mark Spalding, President of The Ocean Foundation, to discuss the emergence of blue bonds in the ESG investing space. What defines a blue bond and why haven’t investors heard more about them? Why might sovereign or corporate issuers issue a blue bond? Wha…
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Low Carbon Crossroad: The Importance of Metals and Mining to the Low Carbon Transition
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PGIM Fixed Income’s James Malone, CFA, ESG Research Specialist, and Beth Gunning, Credit Analyst for Emerging Markets Corporate Bond Research, join David Klausner, ESG Research Specialist, for a deep dive into the critical role that metals and mining companies have in enabling the low carbon transition. Our panel explores a range of topics, includi…
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Rising Food Prices: Financial Risks and Implications to Emerging Markets
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Food prices have been rising globally for some time now. While the Russia/Ukraine conflict has exacerbated food instability, many other factors have also come into play including the COVID-19 pandemic, increases in demand from growing populations, extreme weather events, among others. The war in Ukraine has shown us how the world has become increas…
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Like most nuanced subjects, ESG is a highly intricate topic with many more complexities than most might initially consider. And incorporating ESG-factors into portfolio construction introduces additional challenges, even to the most seasoned investors. However, PGIM Fixed Income is dedicated to helping our clients navigate the ESG landscape. Our de…
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