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Clean 200 list shows sustainable companies on path to dominate global economy

Corporate Knights

They also beat the global benchmark MSCI ACWI by 30% from July 1, 2016, to January 29, 2025. Clean200 data show that for the large companies that make up 80% of global market capitalization, sustainable revenues and capital expenditures are growing more than twice as fast as all other revenues over the past five years.

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Despite net-zero pledges, banks used $750 billion to finance fossil fuels in 2020

GreenBiz

The analysis, " Banking on Climate Chaos 2021 ," underscores that while overall fossil fuel financing did tumble significantly in 2020, the total amount of financing provided to fossil fuel firms in 2020 was still more than $40 billion higher in 2020 than in 2016, at $750 billion. The banking sector maintains that serious change is afoot.

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MSCI Moves to Innovate ESG and Climate Offering

Chris Hall

Data provider appoints former Trucost CEO Richard Mattison to accelerate initiatives and develop fresh strategies for sustainable investing. Mattison has more than 20 years of sustainable finance experience and previously served as President of S&P Global’s Sustainable1 unit.

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Ambitious partnerships on climate action are taking root and bearing fruit

GreenBiz

2020 was, along with 2016, the joint hottest year on record ever — closing out the warmest decade on record ever. Global average temperatures are now about 1.2 This effort has the potential to tackle 30 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. The state of the planet. degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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Lombard Odier, Systemiq Launch New Sustainable Investment Platform

ESG Today

Global wealth and asset manager Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM) and sustainability-focused system designer and developer Systemiq announced today a new partnership to launch holistiQ Investment Partners, a new sustainable investing platform within LOIM.

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A Blueprint for Closing the SDG Financing Gap: How to Raise $290 Billion in 12 Months to Tackle the World’s Biggest Problems

James Militzer

In 2009, developed countries committed to mobilizing US $100 billion per year for climate action in developing countries by 2020. As of 2020, the annual SDG financing gap for developing countries stood at $4.2 Make multilateral development banks (MDBs) and development finance institutions (DFIs) catalysts of mobilization.

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Global corporate clean energy purchasing up 18% in 2020

Renewable Energy World

GW in 2019 – the first year-on-year drop since 2016. Kyle Harrison, BNEF senior associate and the lead author of the report, commented: “Corporations faced a wave of adversity in 2020 – internal corporate functions were disrupted on the outset of the pandemic, and many companies saw revenues plummet as global economies buckled.