3BL Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As the CSO for one of the world's top banks, Eric leads a dedicated Corporate Sustainability Office and focuses on achieving the Bank’s sustainability objectives of helping businesses to advance responsibly, steering consumer wealth to sustainable investments, and fostering social inclusiveness and environmental well-being.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Planet worked with SCS Global Services , (SCS) an organization specializing in third-party certification, validation, and verification for environmental and sustainability quality performance claims, to certify its operations as carbon neutral in accordance with the internationally recognized PAS 2060: 2014 Carbon Neutrality Standard.

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ESG Today

JUNE 12, 2023

The most significant amendments are proposals to ease the burden on smaller companies and first-time reporters by extending the phase-in times for some key sustainability factors such as Scope 3 value chain emissions, and rules enabling all companies to focus specifically on material sustainability factors.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 30, 2023

The ESRS were developed by the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) , which was mandated by the European Commission in June 2020 to prepare for new EU sustainability reporting standards for the CSRD.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including Science Based Targets initiative , Chronos Sustainability, WTW, Aviva and Actis. Hollis previously led the company’s Traditional Credit research team, having joined WTW in September 2014 as a Manager Researcher in the fixed-income team.

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ESG Today

JULY 10, 2023

The CSRD, on track to begin applying from the beginning of 2024, is aimed as a major update to the 2014 Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD), the current EU sustainability reporting framework. Banking association AFME’s response, detailed below, raised similar concerns.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As such, the FMLC encouraged trustees to consider what they require from them to support them in the delivery of their fiduciary duties.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

US corporate political spending on midterm elections doubled from 2010 to 2014 and doubled again from 2014 to 2018. billion in 2018. “Further, in the aftermath of the 6 January 2021 insurrection, broad misalignment in corporate sustainability strategy and political spending and lobbying activity was evident,” she said.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 22, 2014

On May 14, 2014, the SDSN co-hosted a workshop in Beijing on sustainable development and extractive industries with the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Perrine Toledano, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Sustainable investing assets in the United States have plunged by more than half to US$8.4 trillion at the end of 2019, according to a new report from the US Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment (US SIF). Sustainable investing assets skyrocket post 2014. trillion in 2014.

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James Militzer

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The Challenges of Bringing Private Equity Investing to a Frontier Market I launched Dolma Impact Fund I in 2011, along with its fund manager Dolma Fund Management, achieving its first close in 2014. Our mission for Nepal was apparent, even though our path to it was not.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

We’re going to have a lot more discussions around corporate governance and stewardship in the PE space,” said Walter Viguiliouk, Managing Director of Sustainable Investing, Private Markets at Manulife Investment Management, speaking on the forum’s Stewardship in Private Equity panel. “PE trillion in 2023 to US$12 trillion.

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Chris Hall

MAY 24, 2023

“The issue of ESG and fiduciary duty is ground that has been gone over on several previous occasions,” says Paul Lee, Head of Stewardship and Sustainable Investment Strategy at independent investment consultancy Redington. The UK’s Law Commission published reports on the issue in 2014 and 2017.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 26, 2022

“Combined with regular demand from Shariah-compliant investors, this will broaden the investor base for green and sustainability sukuk.”. A number of Islamic financial jurisdictions are developing plans to further support growth of their sustainable investment markets, with Malaysia and Indonesia among the most active.

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Of the 141 shareholder resolutions on environmental governance put forward at carbon major AGMs between 2014 and 2021, CITYPERC’s study identified 42 marginal cases where the votes of one or more of the Big Three were pivotal to the resolution outcome.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 9, 2022

“In some respects, it’s strange to see governance ratings fall now, because we’ve known what Russia is capable of since at least 2014. One might expect governance ratings to change over time rather than overnight,” said a sustainable investment analyst at a large UK-based asset owner. .

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

To boost sustainable investment in ocean economies, the International Capital Market Association, in partnership with other industry bodies, has consolidated existing blue finance guidance and principles under one framework. Part-credit for this meteoritic growth has been given to the Green Bond Principles (GBP) launched in 2014.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 27, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including the ISSB, AllianzGI, EQT, PGIM and KPMG. . Trustees of the IFRS Foundation have appointed Sue Lloyd as Vice-Chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB).

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Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2023

Dr Alexander Juschus , CEO of the Association of Stewardship Professionals, outlines the importance of filling the stewardship skills gap to drive sustainable outcomes. While its roots may be longer, stewardship is synonymous today with sustainable investing.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 25, 2020

Moreover, the maternal mortality ratio [1] has declined by 45 per cent worldwide, while more than 71% of births were assisted by skilled health personnel globally in 2014, an increase from 59% in 1990. Thus a group of Member States formed an Open Working Group to prepare a proposal on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Chris Hall

MARCH 11, 2022

The European sustainable funds universe comprised 3,196 funds in 2020, including an increase of 505 new sustainable funds and the repurposing and rebranding of at least 253 conventional funds. More recently, the correlation between ESG and the different styles is between -0.2

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Chris Hall

JUNE 14, 2023

Two years after a historic push from investors, ExxonMobil serves as an instructive case study of taking engagement efforts to the board. Oil and gas major ExxonMobil’s annual general meeting (AGM) on 26 May 2021 was “the perfect storm”, according to Aeisha Mastagni, Portfolio Manager within the Sustainable Investment and Stewardship Strategies (..)

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Global sustainable investment has passed US$30 trillion, but US excluded from majority of trend analysis figures due to “material change” in methodology. According to the GSIA’s data, the value of sustainable investments in Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand has risen from US$18.2 trillion to US$21.9

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 13, 2023

In response to accusations of greenwashing and growing regulatory scrutiny, a group of high-powered financial networks is working to standardize the often-opaque jargon of the responsible investing industry. The value of global sustainable investment assets jumped from US$23 trillion in 2016 to US$35 trillion in 2020.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Go like the wind The global energy crisis, sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, highlighted the importance of ensuring a steady flow of domestic, sustainable energy supply. As a small island beset by grey skies more often than blue, energy generated by offshore wind power has long been considered the strongest renewable option.

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Chris Hall

MAY 10, 2024

In this case, the consultation elicited a howl of frustration at the bureaucracy of Europe’s sustainable investment architecture, suggesting that efforts to streamline and simplify are due. But these exercises often tell us much else of interest beyond their core area of investigation.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2022

“It’s a potentially a landmark moment that’s going to help investors put the topic on the table for other investee companies and ensure the integration of responsible tax into their sustainable investment strategies,” he said. .

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Tim Day, Investment Fund Manager at Trina Solar, explains the importance of Europe’s sustainable investment community in the growth of solar power. Investment is the catalyst in the ongoing growth of PV, and will be integral in ensuring solar is well-positioned to help meet our net zero targets.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Coinciding with her speech, the UK government published an interim review of UK pensions investment, which Reeves said sets out our plans to create Canadian and Australian style-megafunds to power growth in our economy. But Canadian pension schemes are increasingly channeling capital into sustainability. trillion in assets.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 17, 2023

As per 2014 data from the search engine Ecosia, which partnered with local groups to quantify the success of the initiative to date, the Wall initiative had planted approximately 22.3 After all, as Alison Loat, the managing director for sustainable investment and innovation at OPTrust puts it, “What’s at stake isn’t the future of the planet.

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James Militzer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

A 2014 study found that investors were over twice as likely to fund the exact same startup if the pitch was delivered to them by a male founder rather than a female founder. Both play an insidious — often nearly invisible — role in maintaining a deeply inequitable status quo. Take the question of bias. Photo courtesy of UN Women Africa.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Fabrizio Ferraro, Professor of the Strategic Management Department at IESE Business School, considers sustainability-focused engagement in the face of the anti-ESG movement. ESG professionals (perhaps under a new label, such as “sustainable investing”) may have to operate within a polarised political environment for the foreseeable future.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2024

since 2014. Tommy Piemonte, Head of Sustainable Investment Research at Bank fr Kirche und Caritas (BKC), has claimed that the commission barred him from engaging in a public forum discussion on defence spending and how this intersects with sustainable finance.

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