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Take Five: A “Starting Point” for Sustainability Reporting 

Chris Hall

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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Decarbonisation Culture

Chris Hall

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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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: London Stock Exchange Consults on VCM

Chris Hall

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including LSEG, ISS ESG, Mercer, ICE, Euroclear, Scoot Science, Tumelo, GoldenSource and more. Our aim is to enable any ocean-based business to understand how their business outcomes couple to ocean variability and a changing climate.

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UK Must Converge with ISSB to Avoid “Over-lapping” Rules

Chris Hall

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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Call for Investors to Tackle Timber, Pulp Inertia

Chris Hall

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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ESG Overload 

Chris Hall

UK asset owners are feeling the squeeze from sustainability reporting, but they are working on ways to ease the pinch. The UK hosted COP26 in 2021 and, therefore, wanted to be viewed as a climate leader. “It