3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The three papers recognized this year study three very different topics, but each represents an exemplary effort to deepen our understanding of sustainable investment,” says Lloyd Kurtz , founder of the Moskowitz Prize and again one of the judges this year.

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3BL Media

MARCH 25, 2022

Despite doubling its power generation, the company has committed to reducing greenhouse gas by 40% from 2005 levels by 2025. The largest retail electricity producer in the US, NextEra is also the world’s largest wind and solar power generator—and a Fortune Top 20 Global Innovator. Case Study: Physical Risks Could Change Dining Habits.

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Jon Hale

JANUARY 7, 2022

End of Week Notes How Bloomberg Businessweek’s takedown of MSCI’s ESG Ratings got it wrong Sustainable investing has attracted its share of criticism lately. Further complicating matters, sustainable investing has not sprung forth as a unified, fully developed investment approach. To the contrary, this idea?—?that

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 28, 2023

government has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52% by 2030 from 2005 levels, and Canada is aiming for a 40 to 45% reduction. As a pure-play renewable-energy business, the company scored top marks on sustainable revenue and sustainable investment, which were both at 100%.

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Chris Hall

JULY 3, 2024

In early 2005, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan invited a 20-strong group of global institutional investors to contribute to the development of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). Asset owner signatories and industry leaders reflect on next steps for the investor body, as board considers new strategy.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 15, 2023

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Labour Government has set a legally binding target to cut CO2 emissions by 43% from 2005 levels by 2030, as well as committing to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

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Just Capital

JUNE 2, 2022

In 2005, seven years before we launched the Human Capital Management Coalition, we were already at 80%. You can argue that some people don’t like “sustainable investing,” some do, and some people don’t like “responsible investing,” some do. So what’s the issue? I think that ultimately that perspective will prevail.

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Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2022

Policy reform, best practice and legal judgments are redefining the relationship between fiduciary duty and sustainable investment. In late April, the UK High Court ruled that charity trustees can consider climate change factors when making decisions over their investments, even if it means making lower returns.

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Sense and Sustainability

JANUARY 12, 2022

To reflect these three pillars, responsible investment is now more commonly known as ESG Investment , an idea and term which originated from a 2005 ‘Who Cares Wins’ conference and report. ESG investment is different from an older term, Socially Responsible Investment (SRI), which more explicitly ascribes moral judgment.

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Chris Hall

JULY 21, 2022

Sindhu Krishna, Head of Sustainable Investments at Phoenix Group, explains how the asset owner is holding managers to account. Avoiding the stifling heat in the UK is almost as difficult as avoiding equally stifling conversations about that heat. But whether we love it or hate it, it is difficult to say we didn’t know it was coming.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including AXA Investment Managers, BNP Paribas Real Estate UK, Climate Solutions, Willis Towers Watson, Actis, and Persefoni.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

In recent years sustainable investment funds began demonstrating superior performance and decreased investment risks to conventional funds. This revision also increases the EU’s collective emissions reduction objective for 2030 to 40%, in contrast to 2005 levels, which marks an improvement from the previous target of 30%.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This year, Canada introduced its 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan , which aims to achieve 40-45% emissions reductions below 2005 levels by 2030. Since 2019, every jurisdiction in Canada has imposed a price on carbon pollution. The result, according to Trudeau, is “not, as some foretold, the end of the Canadian economy as we know it.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 16, 2023

“The dangers of climate change are becoming increasingly clear and vivid, including how our societies and the infrastructure that backs them will operate beyond their tolerance levels and become more susceptible to disruption,” says Anderson Lee, Research Associate on Sustainable Investing at the World Resources Institute (WRI). “ Corporations’ (..)

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James Militzer

AUGUST 15, 2022

And in 2005, Nagesh set up the retail industry association RAI – which is now the largest representative body of modern retailers in India – serving as its first Chairman. Photo courtesy of TRRAIN.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

That’s three times better than the average large publicly traded company with more than US$1 billion in overall revenue, which earned 16% of its revenue from sustainable sources. When it comes to sustainable investments, it’s the same story.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 14, 2025

Last month, US SIF Foundation data found that 68% of 265 respondents to its sustainable investing trends surve y said they participated in proxy voting. Striking a balance Proxy voting is a key component of ESG engagement, and it is becoming more prevalent.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Despite this, however, social issues (including migration) are not receiving enough attention from investors, according to Jakob Thom, a sustainable investment expert and Founder of Theia Finance Labs. The first portfolio carbon footprint was run in 2005. Indeed, throughout the world similar debates have been playing out.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 14, 2025

Last month, US SIF Foundation data found that 68% of 265 respondents to its sustainable investing trends surve y said they participated in proxy voting. Striking a balance Proxy voting is a key component of ESG engagement, and it is becoming more prevalent.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 24, 2023

Jason Mitchell, the n ew Chair of the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association, outlines the organisation’s role as a “ convening space ” , the need to reconcile regulatory fragmentation, and calls for greater collaboration on climate from across the financial ecosystem. trillion) in AuM.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 17, 2022

“The passing of the IRA sends a long-term signal to the investment market that the US is unambiguously committed to moving towards a clean energy future,” Bryan McGannon, Director of Policy and Programmes for the US Sustainable Investment Forum (US SIF), tells ESG Investor. .

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 24, 2023

“It’s an unparalleled and historic piece of climate legislation that’s likely to be a significant catalyst for driving investment into the country’s [net zero] transition for years to come,” says Nikita Singhal, Co-Head of Sustainable Investment and ESG at Lazard Asset Management.

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