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Antonio Celeste, Director for Sustainability Product Management at STOXX spoke to Climate Action about how investors should urgently mitigate against biodiversity loss.

The SDGs are way behind schedule, but a September summit offers new hope for public-private sector alignment and progress. “The Summit is an opportunity for a reality check for all actors in the equation – governments, financial institutions, corporations, non-profits, academia, and consumers,” says Saumya Mehrotra, Associate Principal of Sustainability Product Management at Qontigo, a provider of risk, analytics and index solutions.

Net flows into passively managed environmental, social and governance ETFs globally slowed in the first half of 2023 but still grew at a faster pace than passive non-ESG ETFs, according to a report by STOXX, a global index provider.

As asset owners take more control of their investments, one group of participants is providing fellow institutions with a novel way to meet their ESG mandates and obligations. SDI AOP has partnered with global index and analytics provider Qontigo to make its own SDI data available to other institutions and asset managers.

The ISS STOXX Biodiversity Index Suite, launched this week, aims to take a more holistic approach to biodiversity than existing market offerings, Antonio Celeste, Director for Sustainability Product Management at index, analytics and risk solutions provider Qontigo, told ESG Investor.

Fourth quarter 2022 insights from Qontigo, revealed that the ESG segment of the total global passive ETF market is just 4.7 per cent but accounted for more than 10 per cent of all net new assets across the industry in 2022.

Qontigo noted in a research report that as of August, 346B euros were invested in passive ESG ETFs listed across the world. Of that figure, 53% went towards general ESG funds, while 45% of the flows were allocated towards environmental ETFs.

The diversity of sustainability priorities means there can be no one-size-fits-all approach to ESG ETF products, says Qontigo’s Anna Georgieva and Saumya Mehrotra

Qontigo joins MIT Sloan´s Aggregate Confusion Project in an effort to improve ESG measurement in the financial industry

In this ESG Investor article, Qontigo’s Rodolphe Bocquet comments on SDGs and their applicability to corporates.

Qontigo has licensed the EURO STOXX 50 Index to KBSTAR ETF, the ETF division of KB Asset Management, to serve as an underlying for an ETF listed on the Korea Exchange.