ESG Today

JULY 14, 2022

In supporting Summit Ridge’s continued growth, we expect to have a significant positive impact on communities by facilitating increased uptake of renewable energy sources, creating local jobs, and developing sustainable infrastructure.”.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Last year, the UK government published a summary of responses to a call for evidence on whether pension trustees work effectively and are supported to make decisions in the best interests of pension savers.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 14, 2024

It includes financial operators and other organizations interested in the environmental and social impact of investments. The Forum’s mission is to promote the knowledge and practice of sustainable investing, with the goal of spreading the inclusion of environmental, social and governance ( ESG ) criteria in financial products and processes.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Green Equity Designations 1 Nasdaq launched Green Equity Designations on the Nordic markets in 2021 in response to increased demand for sustainable investments and extensive growth in Nasdaq Sustainable Bond Markets. The platform also provides issuer-level information on UN Sustainable Development Goals allocation.

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Impakter

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Spanish electric vehicles charging operator Zunder raised €100 million from French sustainable investment manager Mirova. Zunder is the leading charging platform in the Iberian peninsula and plans to grow its charging infrastructure thanks to Mirova’s investment.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Martin Currie was previously awarded the highest possible ratings by PRI across Strategy & Governance, Incorporation and Active Ownership activity for the 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 years. Martin Currie’s Assessment Report and Transparency Report are available online.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Devillers noted that the latest iteration of the survey found that impact investing has become increasingly important to investors, moving away from ESG scores, which were a key focus in 2017 and 2019, and carbon foot printing which was a priority in 2021. “This is really a growing trend,” said Devillers, noting that 54% of survey respondents said (..)

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As such, the FMLC encouraged trustees to consider what they require from them to support them in the delivery of their fiduciary duties.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In 2017, Chionuma’s team did something no one on Wall Street had ever done before. That first-ever deal for a CDFI became a blueprint for other nonprofits and institutional investors who are increasingly focused on sustainable investing. Deals With Community Impact. She also has had a chance to build something new.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 13, 2023

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including Man Group, CalPERS, Triodos IM, Low Carbon and Bridges Fund Management. . Imane Kabbaj has been appointed as Responsible Investment (RI) Director, Portfolio Oversight, at active investment manager Man Group.

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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

APRIL 14, 2022

“It’s a potentially a landmark moment that’s going to help investors put the topic on the table for other investee companies and ensure the integration of responsible tax into their sustainable investment strategies,” he said. . Google, Facebook and Microsoft avoided paying US$2.8 Closing loopholes .

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Asset owners – including signatories of the NZAOA – are increasingly exploring sustainable investment opportunities in private markets. 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%

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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.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 28, 2023

This is according to members of the Global Impact Investing Network’s (GIIN) Investors’ Council responding to GIIN’s new research, which has taken stock of the latest trends in the global impact investment market via a survey of over 300 impact investors.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including RLAM, LOIM, Synthesis, Putnam, Victory Hill, and DWS. . Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) has this week announced the launch of its Sustainable Growth Fund.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including OnePlanetCapital, Cardano Advisory, Marsh, Brown Advisory and Xpansiv. Anthony Chant has been appointed as Investment Director at OnePlanetCapital , the climate change focused early-stage venture capital fund.

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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

JUNE 1, 2022

In practice, however, investment choices are guided by ESG ratings, making the construction of and disagreement among ESG ratings a central concern,” the study said. Regulators are increasingly focused on sustainable-investing ratings in a bid to deter greenwashing.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The IGCC nominated Alison Ewings, General Manager ESG at QIC, the PRI picked Alejandro Bujanos, Head of Sustainable Investing at Sura Mexico, and Ceres chose Peter Cashion, Managing Investment Director of Sustainable Investments at CalPERS.

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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

MARCH 14, 2024

CA100+ was established in 2017 as an investor-led initiative aiming to collectively support the goals of the Paris Agreement by challenging the large corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters to take action on climate change. The post Zerolytics to Track CA100+ Firms’ Transitions appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2022

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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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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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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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. .

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 1, 2021

We call for this because, despite the increase in investors’ environmental activism, sustainable investments are not evolving as rapidly as needed. However, they cannot be achieved by simply scaling up corporate sustainability initiatives of the past. Why 98% of Companies Do Not Achieve Their Sustainability Goals.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It will support sustainable land-based projects, primarily in agroforestry and regenerative agriculture in developing countries, and is set to run for 12 years. Mirova completed of the deployment of the Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) fund through three final investments.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Role of active stewardship across environmental and social themes emphasised at ESG Risk & Investment Asia 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. .

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 11, 2021

As part of its commitment to the 2030 Agenda, Uruguay has already submitted four voluntary national reviews to the UN High Level Political Forum: in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021. Uruguay has already started to move in this direction, initiating the country’s first private issuance of green bonds to finance sustainable investment portfolios.

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Just Capital

JUNE 2, 2022

You can argue that some people don’t like “sustainable investing,” some do, and some people don’t like “responsible investing,” some do. How is management actually managing their talent? So what’s the issue? I think that ultimately that perspective will prevail. Will people keep using the term ESG? I don’t know.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 30, 2024

These were selected because their profitability is significantly dependent on the sale of carbon credits, Peiuyan explained.     

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Chris Hall

MAY 24, 2023

“The issue of ESG and fiduciary duty is ground that has been gone over on several previous occasions,” says Paul Lee, Head of Stewardship and Sustainable Investment Strategy at independent investment consultancy Redington. The UK’s Law Commission published reports on the issue in 2014 and 2017.

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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

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.

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