GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

Morgan Stanley will measure CO2 impact of loans and investments. Mon, 07/27/2020 - 00:15. As a steering committee member, Morgan Stanley will "lend insights and expertise" to help PCAF develop the global accounting standard, as well as committing to measure and disclose its own financial emissions, according to industry coalition.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

A group of Japan-based financial and industrial companies, and France-based energy giant TotalEnergies announced the launch of the Japan Hydrogen Fund, dedicated to developing a low-carbon hydrogen value chain. for Carbon Neutrality, and the Bank of Fukuoka.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

ESG investments: Exponential potential or surfing one wave? Mon, 09/21/2020 - 00:30. About 77 percent of ESG funds that existed 10 years ago are presently available, whereas only 46 percent of traditional investment vehicles maintain that survivorship. As ESG investment goes mainstream, it will face new challenges and risks.

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3BL Media

MARCH 21, 2022

Recent prominent media articles have warned of a bubble and criticized sustainable portfolios for being ineffective as agents of change. Sustainable investment funds are mushrooming. Assets under management in Morningstar’s global sustainable fund universe surged to $2.75 We think the critics have missed the point.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 22, 2023

The amount of these pension funds’ actual investments labelled as “sustainable” rose to $276 billion in 2021, up from just $163 billion a year earlier. The dashboard shows that sustainable investments composed nearly 13% of the pension funds’ total assets of $2.2 trillion at the end of 2020.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

In the 2024 Global 100 ranking, the top-ranked firms allocated 55% of their investments to sustainable projects, up from 47% the year prior. That compares with sustainable investments at a paltry 17% among the broader universe of publicly traded companies with more than US$1 billion in annual revenue.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 17, 2023

G100 Rank Company HQ Location Carbon Productivity % Non-Male Board Directors % Sustainable Revenue % Sustainable Investment Final Grade Climate Commitments. 21 8 Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure PLC Brentford, U.K. 28 5 City Developments Ltd Singapore, Singapore $19,968 22% 73% 76% B+ 1.5°C, CONTINUE READING.

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3BL Media

MARCH 21, 2022

Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly jobs report, The National Women’s Law Center found that over 1 million fewer women were in the labor force in January 2022 as compared to the beginning of the pandemic (February 2020), while men have largely recouped their labor force losses. 2 Further, the gender pay gap in the U.S.

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ESG Today

APRIL 26, 2025

Billion to Climate Investment Strategies Franklin Templeton Launches Enhanced ESG, Reduced Carbon Footprint S&P 500 and World ETFs Robeco Launches Tool for Investors to Find Biodiversity Leaders and Underperformers

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Donor advised funds (DAFs) numbered roughly one million accounts hosted across 1,000 community foundation and nonprofit sponsors, with $160 billion in assets at the end of 2020. DESCRIPTION: by Timothy Freundlich, ImpactAssets . And, historically they grant more than 20% of assets each year.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

What switching to satellite offices could mean for sustainability. Mon, 08/10/2020 - 01:45. Sustainable cafeterias might be replaced with high-waste food delivery services. . Jesse Klein. Both these situations give the company much more control over building decisions. . "You

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Planet worked with SCS Global Services , (SCS) an organization specializing in third-party certification, validation, and verification for environmental and sustainability quality performance claims, to certify its operations as carbon neutral in accordance with the internationally recognized PAS 2060: 2014 Carbon Neutrality Standard.

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ESG Today

JULY 22, 2022

Global energy and electricity provider Iberdrola announced today a new €550 million green loan agreement with the European Investment Bank (EIB) to help fund the development of a portfolio of wind farms and photovoltaic parks in Spain, with a projected capacity of 1.8 Iberdrola has also been actively scaling its clean energy capacity.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

According to research recently published by the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and global law firm DLA Piper, the worlds largest asset management companies increased their ESG-specific engagement by 39% between 2020 and 2023, driven in no small part by the sustainability objectives of their asset owner clients.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 8, 2025

It was a painful decision, Lala says of closing the Evolve North American Gender Diversity Index ETF in 2020. Toronto-based Evolve is far from alone in its struggle to launch responsible investment (RI) funds that stick and for different reasons. 99% 2024-07-31 115 Desjardins Sustainable Canadian Equity Fund 91.9%

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Sustainable investment growth equity platform Planet First Partners announced today that it has raised €450 million at the second close of its second funding round, following the latest commitment to the fund by Ingka Investments, the investment arm of IKEA parent Ingka Group.

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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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Chris Hall

MAY 18, 2022

Asset owners need to demonstrate more flexibility and innovation in their approach to sustainable investing, according to leading asset owners speaking at the Alpha Summit event hosted by the CFA Institute this week. . The fifth edition of the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance’s biennial review highlighted that US$35.2

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3BL Media

JUNE 30, 2022

Sustainable solutions represented nearly two thirds of 2021 net sales. Invested $528 million in research and development for sustainable solutions since 2020. Sustainable investments : Invested $528 million in research and development for sustainable solutions since 2020.

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ESG Today

MARCH 9, 2023

The new fund expands TDAM’s sustainability suite, which also includes TD North American Sustainability Equity Fund and TD North American Sustainability Balanced Fund, launched in 2020. ” The post TD Launches its First Actively Managed ESG Bond Fund appeared first on ESG Today.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 7, 2023

The SFAC compiled the report after it assumed responsibility for creating a green taxonomy after the Canadian Standards Association, a non-profit industry body, failed to reach consensus among fossil-fuel and investment-industry representatives in 2020.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

A 2020 research study on NYC small business needs conducted by Next Street found that an estimated 68 percent of revenue generated by local businesses stays within the community, making them a vital economic driver. In New York City alone, more than 227,000 small businesses employ 1.6 million workers, creating jobs, opportunity, and wealth.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Difficulties in definition continue to thwart efforts to demonstrate the financial benefits of sustainable investments. Sustainable fund flows attracted US$37 billion of net new money in Q4 2022, with global sustainable fund assets reaching a total of US$2.5

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3BL Media

AUGUST 2, 2022

As the company expanded its laboratory-created diamond offerings in stores throughout 2020-2021, this category grew 183% with a large increase in consumers opting to purchase laboratory-created diamonds, especially amongst the younger generation. “At sustainability. For further information, please visit www.michaelhill.com.au/sustainability.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

The Taxonomy was given the green light in 2020, offering investors and companies a classification system for which activities are considered ‘green’ or ‘climate friendly’. Companies that already started to implement the rules are at risk,” said Pierre Garrault, Senior Policy Adviser at pan-European sustainable investment organisation Eurosif.

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3BL Media

JULY 13, 2023

Sustainable solutions : Solutions that enable electrification, energy transition, electric grid resilience, increase efficiency in ground and air transportation or improve air quality represented 71% of the company’s net sales in 2022, up from 65% in 2021. Employee development : Met company employee training hours goal.

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ESG Today

MARCH 15, 2023

Additional climate-focused initiatives in the budget included the allocation of £20 billion to support the early development of Carbon Capture Usage and Storage (CCUS), along with additional measures focused on improving energy efficiency. and EU, such as the Inflation Reduction Act , and the Green Industrial Plan , respectively.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Investment research firm Morningstar announced the launch of Morningstar Global Sustainable Activities Involvement Indexes (SAI), a new suite of benchmarks aimed at providing investors with exposure to companies with revenues aligned with specific UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across environmental and social themes.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Ethan Talbot Schwartz 27, Toronto/Montreal consultant, CPCS Transcom As an associate with JCM Power, Ethan Talbot Schwartz led the development of renewable energy projects in Malawi, the world’s fifth-poorest country. There are more jobs in sustainability and impact than there ever have been,” says Perry. “A

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This followed the period of highest net inflows into funds with ESG words in their name during late 2020 and early 2021, supporting the view that funds respond to extra demand from investors by changing their names.

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3BL Media

APRIL 18, 2022

These technologies helped companies avoid 45 million metric tons of CO2 emissions in 2020—85 times more than Schneider’s emissions during the same year (Display). Since assuming this role, he has become a thought leader in socially responsible investing, utilizing the SDGs as a road map for identifying thematic investment opportunities.

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James Militzer

APRIL 19, 2023

In 2009, developed countries committed to mobilizing US $100 billion per year for climate action in developing countries by 2020. As of 2020, the annual SDG financing gap for developing countries stood at $4.2 They failed. trillion — up from $2.5 trillion pre-pandemic.

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ESG Today

JULY 18, 2023

Ricardo Mourinho Félix, EIB Vice-President, said: “I’m very pleased to announce this project with Banco Santander (Brasil) that will enable private sector investments in renewable energy, reduce carbon emissions and air pollution, and support additional renewable generation capacity in Brazil.

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ESG Today

JULY 18, 2022

Social bonds have been one of the fastest growing segments of the sustainable finance market over the past few years as investors’ sustainable investment goals expand from a primarily environmental focus to also encompass social impact.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

A 2020 study estimated an average of US$711 billion per year in additional funding is needed from governments and business to meet 2030 goals. The biodiversity funding gap represents the shortfall between currently available funding and biodiversity conservation funding needs (i.e.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 30, 2023

Issues flagged by the regulators included the need to maintain consistency with other global sustainability reporting standards, and improved definitions to help reporters assess materiality. Overall, the ESAs were broadly supportive of the standards, with ESMA Chair Verena Ross calling EFRAG’s development of the ESRS “A major achievement.”

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Credit Suisse announced today the publication of its Climate Action Plan for its investment businesses, outlining the strategies and actions to be taken by Credit Suisse Asset Management and Credit Suisse Wealth Management to achieve net zero across their portfolios by 2050.

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