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. In the beginning, most banks and large money management firms didn’t pay much attention. In the U.S.,

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Now, more than six years after the Brexit vote, which took place in the same year, 2016, as Solvency II came into effect, HM Treasury is planning to slim down Solvency II as it applies to the UK. This would not prevent fossil fuel investment but would make it more expensive.

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3BL Media

APRIL 2, 2022

Marcie Frost Marcie Frost joined CalPERS as chief executive officer (CEO) in October 2016. billion, an experienced team of 2,800 professionals, and three lines of business for the fund: pensions, health benefits, and investments. Mr. Kirkwood has more than 20 years of banking and economic development finance experience.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

Part of this revolution is the meteoritic growth of green bonds, which were started in 2007 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank. From a mere three billion USD in 2012 it has grown to $81 billion in 2016 and could reach $150 billion this year. Green bonds are indeed often oversubscribed due to their success.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Marco Folino 27, Vancouver manager of sustainable investing, BentallGreenOak When Marco Folino started working as a management consultant, he found that there were rarely enough sustainability experts to help companies considering integrating ESG into their strategic goals. “A better world doesn’t just have to be a side hustle.

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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. trillion globally, according to the World Bank from a mere US$15 billion in 2013.

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James Militzer

APRIL 19, 2023

Today, a massive climate and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) financing gap still persists — and even after the SDGs and Paris Agreement laid out a critical role for the private sector in 2016, the subsequent years have brought only modest increases in private investment mobilization. trillion — up from $2.5

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Jon Hale

JULY 29, 2022

Despite the poor year-to-date comparison with peer funds, sustainable funds’ average trailing three-year and five-year category rankings, which include the first half of 2022, are an impressive 41 and 39, respectively.) Third, sustainable investing has been getting more criticism than it has since its real ascent began in 2016.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Robeco, Brunel, Jupiter, Mirova, ECBF, EQT, Actis and AlbaCore. . Dutch asset manager Robeco ’s new Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Low-Carbon Indices aim to invest in companies making a positive contribution to the SDGs.

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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. Lisa Pinsley , who joined Actis in 2016 is Head of Middle East & Africa for Energy.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 24, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including the ISSB, Hymans Robertson, 2DII, ACA Group, Edison, UKSIF and Util. . D’Ath has nearly 30 years of experience in investments and international equity markets, working as Barclays Wealth, ING and ICAP.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Laura Bosch Ferrete, Sustainable Investing Specialist at Robeco, said: “Indonesia works constructively with and supports relevant government authorities and other stakeholders. The World Bank calculates that the percentage of the world’s surface covered by forestry fell from 31.6% in 1990 to 30.7%

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3BL Media

JULY 27, 2023

In 2016, I attended COP13 as part of the WHC delegation of two people. This year, for the first time, a company was excluded from an investment fund on the basis of biodiversity. Governments, companies, banks and NGOs are all at the starting line ready to take the nature-positive journey. It's all happening for nature right now.

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James Militzer

AUGUST 15, 2022

According to the World Bank , 15% of the world’s population has a disability. This statistic is expected to grow, considering that the Indian government amended the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act of 2016 to include 14 additional impairments, for a total of 21 disabilities. of the country’s population to have disabilities.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In 2016, things seemed somewhat dire for the clean energy transition. There are 90 new companies on the list this year, and some of those companies cracked the top 10, including Deutsche Telekom (in third place), Verizon Communications (fourth), Agricultural Bank of China (sixth) and Contemporary Amperex Technology (10th).

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