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Climate tops ESG Priorities for US Institutional Investors

Chris Hall

Managers also reported applying fossil fuel divestment screens across US$1.2 trillion in 2020 – due to a change in methodology and an impending tightening of regulation. Climate change was also the most important ESG issue for asset managers, addressed across US$3.4 trillion in assets under management. trillion versus US$17.1

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Sustainable investments had secretly great year

Corporate Knights

The negative sentiment doesn’t match the tremendous progress that is being made. Sustainable investments soared in 2020 and 2021 , and that was certainly when the shine was on. Clean energy stocks performed tremendously in 2020 and early 2021, but in hindsight this was clearly a bubble. But that’s not what I’m seeing.