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Joe Biden can be the president for a sustainable private sector

GreenBiz

The sustainable investment community already is engaged in this effort, channeling dollars to companies with better environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices. One in every three professionally managed dollars in the United States — $17 trillion — is invested with an ESG focus. We agree that this shift is overdue.

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AllianceBernstein: Carbon Handprints: A New Approach to Climate-Focused Equity Investing

3BL Media

By combining an assessment of carbon handprints with research of business fundamentals, we believe investors can create a portfolio of companies with superior long-term return potential that are providing solutions to the world’s biggest climate challenges. What type of companies are held in climate-focused portfolios?

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This Week’s People Moves: Ex-PGGM CIO Takes AustralianSuper Role

Chris Hall

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including AustralianSuper, Morningstar, Tikehau Capital, Oak Hill Advisors and Guinness Global Investors. . In his new position, Kuh will be advancing Morningstar Indexes’ ESG strategy to accelerate growth in the market.

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Can the World Bank Show the Way Forward for Impact?

Chris Hall

Sustainable investing of every kind is to some degree geared towards addressing the biggest threats facing our planet and its inhabitants, which means our collective response must itself be monumental. Radical transformation as second nature The argument for scalability is simple.

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On the Cusp of a New Era

Chris Hall

Climate: 60% of Latin American cities experienced heatwaves between 2011-2020, with 28% considered extreme events. Economic simulations indicate that not investing in solutions to mitigate climate change could cost 6% of Latin America’s GDP by 2025 and 20% by 2100.

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The Global 100 list: How the world’s most sustainable corporations are driving the green transition

Corporate Knights

In the 2024 Global 100 ranking, the top-ranked firms allocated 55% of their investments to sustainable projects, up from 47% the year prior. That compares with sustainable investments at a paltry 17% among the broader universe of publicly traded companies with more than US$1 billion in annual revenue.

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Europe’s Next Big Step

Chris Hall

There’s also the stewardship code introduced by the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA), which was first adopted in 2011. Climate change is the most obvious of these – inequality is another.” The UK code is currently subject to a three-stage review.