Rickard Nilsson

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Rickard Nilsson is the Head of Stewardship Success at Esgaia. With years of experience in responsible investing and investor stewardship, he focuses on the role of finance to help advance sustainability practices. His insights span market- and regulatory developments, industry best practices, academic research, and more.

Rickard Nilsson

Apr 17 2023

Why it's time investors move beyond idiosyncratic to systematic stewardship

Illuminem Voices

Sustainable Investment · Sustainable Finance

In the current market, competition can drive companies to externalise negative environmental and social impacts at a cost to the broader society. This speaks of a market failure where doing the right thing from a societal point of view is not rewarded by the market.

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Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction: what can investors do about it?

Rickard Nilsson

Dec 15 2022

Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction: what can investors do about it?

Sustainable Investment

To say climate change mitigation and biodiversity protection is urgent would be the gravest of understatements. In just 50 years, we have completely offset 10,000 years of climate stability with the planet now experiencing its largest loss of life since the dinosaur era ended. This is the reality of limitless growth on a finite planet.

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Rickard Nilsson

Dec 15 2022