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Our 2024 Impact Report highlights our continued efforts towards helping to build a more sustainable future for all. As part of our ongoing commitment to creating lasting value for our stakeholders, the report provides a comprehensive overview of our sustainability initiatives encompassing environmental stewardship, social responsibility and strategic partnerships.

Producing vast amounts of cheap, clean energy, the sun is critical for global decarbonisation. But solar power also offers something more: investment opportunities in everything from photovoltaics and batteries to the transmission lines and transformers that form the backbone of the world's power systems.

It's National Tree Week, so let's hear it for trees: for giving excitable children through the ages a place to hide, climb, or swing; for offering us merciful shade through the summer and rustling leaves to kick through in autumn; for providing a natural home to a menagerie of arboreal animals, and structure and warmth to our built environment. These green giants grant us so much…they even taught Sir Isaac Newton a thing or two about gravity.

Our 2024 Impact Report highlights our ongoing commitment to creating an inclusive environment and making a positive contribution to society.

This month, we hosted a panel on the evolution of the stewardship industry and 2024 voting trends, led by Global Stewardship Lead, Siobhan Archer. The audience heard from experts Lindsey Stewart, Director of Stewardship Research at Morningstar Sustainalytics, and Georgia Stewart, co-founder and CEO of Tumelo.

The US energy policy landscape has been a dynamic and often contentious field, shaped by differing political ideologies and economic pressures.

We are proud to share our 2024 Impact Report, which highlights our continued efforts to improve our environmental stewardship, social responsibility and impact in the wider community.

We understand the role that financial markets have to play in driving capital towards businesses and organisations striving to create a cleaner, safer and more sustainable world. However, financial markets alone can only achieve so much.

Ben Palmer, Senior Sustainable Portfolio Manager, discusses how government policy is now driving forward the sustainability agenda, by placing nature at its heart.

In our latest video, Siobhan Archer, Global Stewardship Lead, discusses the importance of biodiversity data and why understanding biodiversity is critical to support the planet’s health and resilience.