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Sustainable Investing works with international organizations, institutional investors and investment research houses to provide research and convening around new trends in sustainable finance. Since 2003, IFC has taken concrete steps to increase the amount of sustainable portfolio equity and private equity investment into and within emerging markets. The goal has been set out to almost double the stock of sustainable capital in emerging markets from US$2.7 billion in 2003 – less than 0.1% of emerging market stock market capitalization – to US$5 billion in 2008. Recent HighlightsAsian listed companies are more carbon intensive than their peers in other regions of the world. Investors in Asian Equity funds are therefore more exposed to carbon risks. There are opportunities to reduce the carbon intensity of Asian equity funds by some 30 per cent without suffering loss in performance. These are the main conclusions of a report launched on 11 December in Bali – Carbon Counts Asia 2007: Carbon Footprints of Asian Investment Funds. The study, commissioned by the International Finance Corporation and conducted by environmental research organisation Trucost, provides the first comprehensive review of greenhouse gas emissions by Asian companies by analysing the carbon intensity of the MSCI Asia ex-Japan index and 90 individual investment funds in Asia. Read more on the Trucost website... Readers will need to register to download the report but registration is free of charge. | SITE TOOLS  
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