Corporate Knights

JANUARY 10, 2024

Despite appearances, sustainable investments have quietly had a great year. Given the poor performance of green energy stocks and the chorus of opposition against anything viewed as “woke,” it’s easy to get lost in the narrative that the shine has worn off sustainable investing. But that’s not what I’m seeing.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The value of portfolios classified as responsible investments (RI) dropped from $3.2 trillion on December 31, 2019, to $3 trillion at the end of 2021, according to the 2022 Canadian Responsible Investment Trends Report published last week by the Responsible Investment Association (RIA). .

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Further, 38% of North American investors surveyed stated they are looking internally to define sustainable investing as there is a “preference for a market-based solutions”, rather than policymakers attempting to help define sustainable investing through initiatives such as the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).

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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. As a result, to feel better, these investors want to screen out problematic companies from their investment portfolio.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Among investors, sustainable investing is evolving from negative screening toward engaging with companies. Impact investing is getting traction and, in 2022, reached 1.2 trillion in AUM, according to a report by the Global Investing Network. Source VBA. UK) and devastating floods (e.g. Pakistan).

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Stanford Social Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Although ESG investing is often lumped in as part of the broader impact investing ecosystem, it’s important to be clear about their differences at the outset. Could it be that over the long term ESG could come to be seen as a diet of cigarettes and alcohol to shrink a tumor?

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