Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including ISSB, Calvert, GLP Europe, Metzler AM, and KGAL. . Former World Bank Vice President Jingdong Hua has been appointed as Vice-Chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). Oppenheim Jr. &

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

More about these and other important announcements can be found in the Global Yearbook of Climate Action 2017. Third Installment of the Low-Emissions Solutions Conference On 13 November 2017, cities, businesses and, researchers gathered in a unique forum to discuss the at-scale implementation of low-emissions solutions.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including BT Pension Scheme, Global Impact Investing Network, Fulcrum Asset Management, S&P Global Sustainable1 and JLL. Central Banking and Financial Stability in the Age of Climate Change”.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In fact, almost 85 percent of individual investors say they are interested in sustainable investing and more than three quarters believe they can use their investments to influence the extent of climate change. Issuance of green bonds has more than tripled from 2017 to 2021.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 11, 2021

The Inter-American Development Bank and the SDSN published a special edition of the SDG Index focused on Uruguay. The report benchmarks Uruguay's progress on the Sustainable Development Goals against progress of OECD countries. Want to learn more? The report is available free of charge at [link]

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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

MAY 31, 2024

This achievement was one of several high points in the pension fund’s 2023 sustainable investing (SI) report , published in April. In addition, CDPQ has reduced the carbon intensity of its corporate portfolio by 59% compared to 2017, when it released its inaugural SI strategy.

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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. He also contributed to the drafting of the UK’s Net Zero Strategy and the upcoming UK Government Green Finance Strategy.

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

A large and growing share of that investment capitol is going towards impact investments. In an interview with Private Equity International (PEI), Tania Carnegie, the Global Private Equity and Asset Management Leader for KPMG Impact, said she is confident about the future of impact investing. In 2020, U.S.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

To date, investor activity has been limited both from an engagement and capital allocation perspective, even where fleet emissions are material, including the many service providers owned by global banking groups. The bank will report on its allocation of proceeds, including an estimate of tailpipe CO2 emissions avoided, within 12 months.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 30, 2023

This week, the ISSB delivered its long-awaited sustainability standards, to overwhelming but not universal acclaim. Double trouble – Undoubtedly, the most significant development in sustainable investment this week was the release of its first two standards by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB).

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 16, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Northern Trust, Solactive, Nuveen, KGAL, EIT InnoEnergy, Gresham House, Mirova, Fidante Partners and Aera VC. . The Gresham House Energy Storage Fund (GRID) has secured a £155 million funding package from UK bank NatWest.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 5, 2023

UKSIF banks “phased approach “ to sustainability disclosures for SMEs to reduce compliance burden of UK ’s proposed non-financial reporting requirements. The TCFD’s recommendations were published in June 2017 and have since gained widespread recognition and adoption by companies, investors, and governments globally.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 30, 2024

billion) by 2025.     According to S&P , the expected price of one CCER credit – which represents a tonne of CO2 reduction – will be over the US$5.56- US$8.34/mtCO2e

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Customers and investors should exert greater influence over the tropical timber and pulp sectors, sustainable investment experts have said, in light of leading sector firms’ failure to reduce and report their exposure to deforestation risks. in 2017, when the assessments began. in 2019 to 24.1%

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

And where returns are demonstrable, McMahon concedes that these are typically single digit, but he argues the dual objectives of making an impact alongside delivering performance give sustainable investment some added appeal. He adds: “We must be realistic. The funds] offer a mid to high single digit internal rate of return.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 12, 2024

The top three are rounded out by Toyota, which paid US$180 million in fines in 2021 for failing to report defects in its cars’ tailpipe emissions to the Environmental Protection Agency, and DWS, a Deutsche Bank-controlled investment firm, which forked out US$25 million last year in a settlement after U.S.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 17, 2023

The BBC subsequently reported in 2017 that in Senegal alone, more than 11 million trees had been planted. In Ethiopia, a report from the World Bank–affiliated Independent Evaluation Group found that Ethiopia’s Green Legacy Initiative, its offshoot of the Wall, had regenerated 45 watersheds. What’s at stake is the future of humanity.”

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