Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In May , Phoenix Group became the CA100+’s new Shell co-lead, following the Church of England stepping back from engagement after five years and divesting from the oil and gas giant the following month.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

The new indicator includes metrics to see whether any emissions reductions have been due to actions such as divestment. While at a corporate level firms might be decreasing their emissions, real economy emissions will increase as the assets continue to be run by a different party.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 31, 2022

The requirements stem from the 2017 recommendations of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), a forum set up in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, and specifically the board’s Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD). There will be a challenge to find the time and resources.”.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2022

An investor’s decision to divest “doesn’t mean an end to all ESG-focused engagement with that company”, according to Eric Nietsch, Head of Sustainable Investing for Asia at Manulife Investment Management. . There’s ultimately a place for both engagement and divestment,” said Nietsch. “If Multi-year effort .

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3BL Media

AUGUST 24, 2022

California required SCE and other investorowned utilities to divest the majority of their generation assets beginning in the late 1990s in order to promote competitive energy pricing. Among other things, SCE divested from and terminated all contracts with coal-burning resources and, since 2015, has had no coal in its specified portfolio.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 25, 2024

Many investors also stated that it was critical for them to remain invested in green energy industries, and that divestment was typically used as a last resort. However, it was unclear what factors would trigger strategic divestment and on what timeline.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2024

However, CDPQ was identified as a climate leader following its decision to divest firms involved in oil production and refining and coal mining in 2022. ‘Green’ assets now make up 12.5% of CDPQ’s total C$452 billion (US$329.7 billion) in AUM.

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Chris Hall

MAY 19, 2022

Originally launched in 2017, CA100+ now has 700 investor signatories representing US$68 trillion in assets. . Engagement conducted as part of CA100+ has driven notable progress towards climate goals, with more than 110 focus companies having made net zero commitments today, compared to just five in 2017,” the CA100 spokesperson said. .

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Chris Hall

MARCH 19, 2024

Since 2017, the government has placed an estimated 1.8 Divestment has typically been used as a last resort by investors, as remaining invested in green energy is often critical to them. “By An NBIM spokesperson stressed the importance of engagement, as opposed to divestment on the issue. “We million in 2016.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 19, 2024

Since 2017, the government has placed an estimated 1.8 Divestment has typically been used as a last resort by investors, as remaining invested in green energy is often critical to them. “By An NBIM spokesperson stressed the importance of engagement, as opposed to divestment on the issue. “We million in 2016.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In 2017, the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) led a two-year collaborative engagement initiative on tax transparency.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

She took matters into her own hands in 2017, when she founded the reusable underwear line Pantys , the first of its kind in Latin America. His first taste of the potential for sustainable finance came in 2017 when he led Starbucks in issuing the company’s first sustainability bond issue in a foreign market, Japan.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 24, 2023

Divest now for tomorrow For insurance companies that are big institutional investors, that has also meant divesting their holdings in oil, gas and coal projects. In 2015, France’s AXA became the first insurance company to start divesting from coal. In the U.S.,

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

It has completely divested the fast fashion sector over its poor record on sustainability and the payment of decent wages but maintains engagement through PLWF. “We speak through the platform to several supply chain actors,” says Schmidt.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Launched in 2017, Climate Action 100+ is an investor initiative that has targeted the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters to promote taking necessary action on climate change, and align their business strategies with net zero in order to help limit average global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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ESG Today

MARCH 6, 2024

Launched in 2017, Climate Action 100+ is an investor initiative that has targeted the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters to promote taking necessary action on climate change, and align their business strategies with net zero in order to help limit average global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Stephanie Pfeifer, CEO of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change which co-founded CA100+, says “When CA100+ launched [in 2017], five focus companies had set net zero emission targets by 2050, now we are at three-quarters.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 13, 2024

From 2021 to May this year, 22 investors, including banks and pension funds, have divested from JBS or its subsidiaries, citing its links to biodiversity loss and governance issues, according to the Financial Exclusion Tracker project. JBS is widely regarded as an ESG pariah.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The move, in 2017, was the first example of this type of climate-risk related disclosure in the US, and globally. A figure well-versed in the types of legal and political attacks the SEC will face is California’s former Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones.

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Jon Hale

JUNE 3, 2022

Why Did Companies Take So Long to Divest from White Supremacy? —?—?—?—?— The only meaningful policy enacted by the Trump administration and Republican Congress in 2017–2018 was the giant corporate tax cut, bought and paid for by corporate donors.

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Foley & Hoag

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

This report was provided to Congress by the Department of the Treasury in 2018 pursuant to the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act of 2017 (“CAATSA”). While the U.S. If added to the SDN List, all U.S. assets held by such individuals would be frozen, and U.S.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Last February, four student activists at Manhattan’s New York University got the meeting they’d been waiting for: a chance to tell the school’s board of trustees why the university should divest the fossil fuel stocks in its US$5-billion endowment. It was a big win. Focused, imaginative and relentless action can achieve unexpected victories.

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

It was 2017, and a dumb local teenager threw a firework into a tinder box of dry trees and plants, and in a blink of an eye the beloved Columbia River Gorge was on fire and the City of Portland was covered in smoke for days on end. I’ll never forget when the fires first woke me up.

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