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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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. trillion, versus just 7% of $2.1

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

and 16%, respectively, compared to 2020 levels, among other ambitious targets. In China, the shipment volume for new consumer electronics exceeded 530 million in 2020, according to CIC. The post A New Frontier for Green Investment appeared first on ESG Investor. from 2021 to 2026.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The summit brought together delegates from over 190 countries to negotiate the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework , the implementation of which will require a transformation in the way we produce, consume and trade goods and services that rely on and impact biodiversity. Bending the curve of biodiversity loss.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As the COP28 meeting begins and the world looks to the financial sector to step up on the climate crisis, the global sustainable investment industry is finally coming to grips with allegations of greenwashing that have plagued it for years. between 2020 and 2022. went from 33% in 2020 to just 13% in 2022. trillion to US$2.36

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 10, 2022

As extreme weather events become stronger and more frequent, the Insurance Institute predicts that average annual severe weather claims paid by insurers in Canada will more than double between 2020 and 2030, increasing from $2.1 The transition to a low-carbon future, while necessary, introduces considerable investment risk.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 30, 2021

S&B USA (previously Shikun and Binui America) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of Brazoria West Solar Project with 260 megawatts (MWdc) (200 MWac) of planned solar energy capacity from Savion, part of Macquarie’s Green Investment Group.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 15, 2021

This Middle-Tennessee solar project is another win for TVA’s nationally-recognized Green Invest program, which has already secured solar farms to help meet the renewable energy goals of auto manufacturers, data centers, local power companies, cities, and universities. “Our Since 2018, Green Invest has attracted nearly $2.7

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2020

British biogas businesses are urging Kwasi Kwarteng MP, Minister for Business, Energy and Clean Growth, to include all eligible renewable heat projects in the Covid-19 Extension of the Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), announced in the March 2020 Budget.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 29, 2021

Clearly the green finance revolution has taken the world by storm, with investment in low-carbon energy remaining robust throughout the pandemic.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The majority of investors surveyed by the AIGCC (74%) use the recommendations of the Task Force for Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) to measure and report targets, compared to 55% in 2020. The situation looks to be improving as it was cited by 56% of respondents in 2020, falling to 45% in 2021. Opportunities and resources.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

Now we can measure this green business exposure for the majority of companies and are able to count annual green investments that run into the trillions, growing six times faster than the economy at large,” Heaps says. “We did the best job possible with limited qualitative corporate disclosure.” “Now

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Meanwhile, the World Economic Forum report from January 2020 informed us that over half of global GDP, or more than US $44T is moderately or highly dependent on nature and its services.”. or US $200 billion—is staggering,” says Hari.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 25, 2022

The Climate Bonds Initiative estimated the size of the non-ESG labelled climate-aligned bond market at more than US$900 billion in 2020. “If Issuance volume rose 45% over 2020, with sustainable bonds accounting for 10% of overall debt capital market activity. Green bonds accounted for around half of all issuance (US$488.8

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2024

In 2018, the Asset Management Association of China, a self-regulatory body set up by the sector, released Green Investment Guidelines for trial implementation. The guidelines define the concept of green investment, and set out basic objectives, principles, and methods of supervision.

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Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2024

It had previously been possible to launch an EU environmental opportunities fund, claiming Article 8 classification under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) , while allocating as little as 10% of assets to demonstrably green investments.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In Europe, there is a thriving sustainable investment community that recognises the urgent need to help the solar industry innovate, grow and deliver the promise of PV technology to more people across the continent and beyond. EU regulation goes hand in hand with a decade-long trend of increased focus on green investment in the EU.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2020

100 billion green investment. Analysis conducted by UK100 and Siemens, shows that a £5bn investment by the Government could unlock £100bn of private sector investment toward meeting the Net Zero goals by 2050. July 2020. [3] July 2018 and Robins, N., Tickell, S, Irwin, W., and Sudmant, A. 3] [link]. [4]

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

With ESMA flagging a tripling in the size of the SDG fund market between 2020 and 2023, impact-washing is also in their sights. billion) green investment pledge. Regulators are already pushing back against the risk of greenwashing with a range of fund disclosure , naming and labelling rules.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 24, 2022

The current total operational UK offshore wind capacity is the largest globally at more than 10 GW, representing 29% of global capacity in 2020. Electricity generation from wind power in the UK has increased by 715% from 2009 to 2020, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

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Chris Hall

MAY 13, 2022

But OTPP was described as “raising the bar for climate leadership among Canadian pension funds”, following the publication of its 2021 Annual Responsible Investing and Climate Change Report. According to a Shift analysis , among the private companies it owns, it boosted emissions reporting to 56% in 2020, up from 37% in 2019.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The arrival of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) was announced as early as July 2020. The World Economic Forum estimated its monetary value in 2018 to be equivalent to an estimated US$125 trillion worth of economic, natural and social capital. What is the TNFD?

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2021

.” According to recently released roadmap reports on reaching Net Zero by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the world needs to be installing wind power at around 3-4 times the level of 2020, which saw a record 93 GW installed. Are You In?

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Eco Coach

MARCH 3, 2020

In general, the trend is that investors are increasingly asking organizations what they are doing in terms of going green. A recent CNBC article suggests that green investing could even be a mega trend.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The company’s bond prospectus said an externally reviewed report on allocated proceeds and expected impacts would be issued once a year until the green bonds are repaid in full, but the latest available report on its public investors webpage appears to be from 2020/21.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Asset managers decide to re-label existing funds as green investment vehicles for two reasons, according to Paul Lacroix, Head of Structuring at Smart Beta specialist investment firm Ossiam, an affiliate of Natixis. The first is client demand for investment solutions that are ESG-based,” he tells ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The EU published its Hydrogen Strategy in 2020, which commits member states to installing at least six gigawatts (GW) of renewable hydrogen electrolysers and producing up to one million tonnes of green hydrogen between 2020-24. The EU’s REPowerEU plan introduced?the Circular argument.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 20, 2022

The IEA says governments and industry are “getting behind” direct air capture, with commitments of almost US$4 billion made since the beginning of 2020 to fund DAC initiatives. The definition of a sustainable investment in the EU taxonomy, adds Hieminga, will help CCS development, as gas has been labelled as a green investment.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 22, 2021

More than 12 million people around the world worked in renewable energy in 2020, an increase of 500,000 from the year before, even after the significant impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. . The report finds that $1 million in green investments often create more near-term jobs than the equivalent investment in unsustainable solutions.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 22, 2024

That’s according to Jennifer Boscardin-Ching, a Client Portfolio Manager with Pictet Asset Management, who has seen AI become the most transformative trend in clean energy investing. This seemed to be at the expense of ESG-related investments, which fell down the list of asset managers’ priorities. gigawatts of solar power.

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