Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2024

Greenwashing is a growing risk in the Chinese fund management sector, as marketing of ESG products runs ahead of standards and regulatory oversight, a new report by Greenpeace has found. China falls behind Greenwashing has emerged as a major problem in developed countries over the last decade with the rise of ESG-labelled funds.

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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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Jon Hale

JUNE 17, 2022

End of Week Notes Answers to questions ranging from overall purpose and different approaches to greenwashing and performance. Here are a few questions I fielded about sustainable investing that seem to be on the minds of a lot of folks: What is the real purpose of sustainable investing? Talking with actual people!

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 31, 2022

By Sustainable Fitch. Investor thirst for sustainable investments across all asset classes has seen fixed income issuance creation and supply skyrocket year-over-year to meet the demand. The labelled bond space has exploded, with labelled issuance growing 69% between 2020 and 2021. Identifying and avoiding greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

“Guidance on labelling sustainable and ESG funds would be the natural next step for the SEC to take,” Gregory Hershman , Head of US Policy at the UN-convened Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) told ESG Investor. In March 2020, the SEC asked for feedback on whether the Fund Names Rule should be updated.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Pacifists may choose not to invest in companies that manufacture weapons. Environmentalists may choose to invest in companies that produce durable products from natural materials. Terms like sustainable investing, impact investing, and ethical investing were used to describe this activity.

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Chris Hall

MAY 28, 2024

Between January 2020 and December 2021, the EU watchdog identified 191 European companies involved in 933 misleading communication incidents – 70% of which involved greenwashing. However, ESMA’s guidelines also require a more general alignment with environmental or social characteristics, or a sustainable investment objective.

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Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2024

European regulators have ratcheted up efforts to eliminate greenwashing from the investment sector. End of an era I – The fight against greenwashing inched ahead with the release of final guidelines for naming ESG- or sustainability-related funds by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA).

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Further, a lack of transparency around why a fund has been re-labelled as sustainable and the impact the new label has on the fund’s environmental-related characteristics or performance can ignite greenwashing concerns. Asset owners have told ESG Investor they will continue to closely scrutinise funds with new sustainable labels.

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Chris Hall

JULY 1, 2022

UNEP FI is responsible for formulating the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and convenes the Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance (NZAOA), the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) and the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA). Fancy writes: “To fix our system and curb a growing [greenwashing] disaster, we need government to fix the rules.”.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 13, 2023

With regulation increasingly promoting transparency and ambition across sustainable investment strategies, Chair outlines plans to update how it measures the market. The rapid evolution of the sustainable investment market in Europe is forcing changes to the methods used to capture its size and growth. trillion.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Investment in adaptation offers significant opportunities that are yet to be comprehensively tapped,” said Rena Pulido, Head of Sustainable Investment Australia at IFM Investors, a A$221.7 It will be important for taxonomies to include adaptation to further mobilise much needed investment in adaptation,” she told ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 26, 2024

The net outflows in Q4 were largely driven by US investors, who pulled a record US$5 billion from US sustainable funds in the quarter. Morningstar’s sustainable fund universe encompasses funds that “claim to focus on sustainability; impact; or ESG factors”. trillion globally.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2022

Assets in European impact funds increased by 50% in 2021 compared to 2020, as demand for the classification increases in the wake of greenwashing claims against funds elsewhere in the sustainable investment universe. of total European funds’ net assets currently follow an impact investing approach.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 1, 2022

These long-held principles of sustainability have filtered down to the world of investment. According to figures published by The Global Sustainable Investment Alliance in 2021, Japan’s total sustainably invested assets stood at US$42,874 billion in 2020, representing a more than fivefold increase from 2016.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Sustainable investing assets in the United States have plunged by more than half to US$8.4 trillion at the end of 2019, according to a new report from the US Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment (US SIF). Sustainable investing assets skyrocket post 2014. trillion in 2020 from US$6.6

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The European Markets and Securities Authority (ESMA) released an analysis that noted the “absence of harmonised and standardised reporting requirements” for private sector actors against SDG targets, and concluded that most funds claiming to contribute to SDGs neither explained clearly how they aligned, nor invested any differently to non-SDG funds.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 13, 2023

Innovation can create opportunities for climate progress and investment returns in 2023, says Sarah Bratton Hughes, Head of Sustainable Investing, American Century Investments. That is our investment stewardship approach, particularly concerning portfolio decarbonisation. Sustainability trends beyond carbon.

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Jon Hale

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

With so many more people investing sustainably, and doubtless many more still on the sidelines, I’d like to see 2022 be a year marked by greater transparency to minimize gaps that I think are emerging between what investors expect and how funds are actually executing their sustainable investing mandates. Data as of Dec.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Efficient, reliable and trusted benchmarks can cut the cost of sustainable investment, as they allow passive, index-based strategies to support sustainable investment objectives. Passive funds, she said, account for roughly 40% of all US sustainable investment assets under management.

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B the Change

JULY 7, 2022

Most asset managers, especially institutional investors such as mutual and pension funds, claim to integrate ESG into their investment strategy. The numbers speak for themselves: According to the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance, over $35.5 trillion was managed for sustainable and responsible investing globally in 2020.

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Chris Hall

MAY 31, 2023

Could they start passing their own judgments on what is and is not a sustainable investment? Off the shelf Paul Lee, Head of Stewardship and Sustainable Investment Strategy at investment consultant Redington, describes himself as agnostic; what matters is to obtain a system that enabled effective reporting.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 16, 2023

However, there are also bright spots, such as the Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) and progress on creating a set of labels for sustainable funds. . The plans include Sustainable Disclosure Requirements (SDR) from the financial sector and a related sustainable investment labelling regime.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 1, 2022

Net Purpose CEO Sam Duncan explains the need to bring more structure to sustainability data. We should be measuring common facts that people agree are important to achieve sustainable investment goals. SFDR’s Article 9 classification cover funds with sustainability or reduction in carbon emissions as their objective.

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Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2023

Dr Alexander Juschus , CEO of the Association of Stewardship Professionals, outlines the importance of filling the stewardship skills gap to drive sustainable outcomes. While its roots may be longer, stewardship is synonymous today with sustainable investing.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 29, 2022

Scanning across to the Financial Reporting Council’s UK Stewardship Code, the 2020 Code represents a mature governance regime for UK-listed businesses. It becomes possible to use this approach to not only flush out greenwashing but ‘ESG washing’ across all three pillars and within the features which make up each of those pillars.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 18, 2023

It was proposed as a part of the EU Action Plan on Sustainable Finance , which was introduced in 2018, and officially adopted in July 2020, requiring companies and financial institutions to disclose the proportion of their activities that are taxonomy-eligible or taxonomy-aligned.

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Carlos Sanchez

APRIL 28, 2021

In 2020, intangible assets were 90% of S&P500 value compared with 17% in 1975. Sustainable Investment and ESG ratings. ESG investment has almost doubled over the last four years, reaching $40.5 trillion in assets in 2020 ( 2021 sustainability trends ). Rise of Intangibles.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 13, 2023

In response to accusations of greenwashing and growing regulatory scrutiny, a group of high-powered financial networks is working to standardize the often-opaque jargon of the responsible investing industry. The conference was held at an important time for the responsible investment industry in Canada and around the world.

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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. Sustainable Investment Forum (U.S. between 2020 and 2022.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Taxonomies define economic activities aligned with sustainability goals across multiple sectors and provide guidance to corporates and investors with an aim to mitigate greenwashing. The EU Taxonomy was among the first such tools, with its governing Regulation entering into force on 12 July 2020.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 24, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including the ISSB, Hymans Robertson, 2DII, ACA Group, Edison, UKSIF and Util. . Jantzi currently serves on the Board of Directors of the VRF and of the Principles for Responsible Investment.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 2, 2023

While a focus on ESG has been prevalent for some time now, this surge in interest has been fueled by Canada’s commitment to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 and an increasing number of stakeholders who expect ESG considerations be integrated into their investment programs.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 12, 2024

Regulators around the world are trying to tackle the problem of greenwashing with new rules and enforcement mechanisms. As greenwashers are expected to face increasing and more frequent fines in certain jurisdictions, a plastic-prevention start-up called CleanHub recently ranked the largest greenwashing fines given out to date.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 13, 2024

Ashley Thomson, Global Witness’s US Senior Policy Advisor Similar concerns have also been raised by Tariq Fancy, BlackRock’s former sustainable investment chief, who criticised the firm for “misleading investors” by using the ESG label, calling it a “dangerous placebo”.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 17, 2023

Wall of greenwash? and 79% for 2019 and 2020 respectively. Reforestation efforts are also hampered by the climate emergency itself: ongoing drought, in particular in Ethiopia, and other extreme weather events that limit the amount of water available to sustain such initiatives. What’s at stake is the future of humanity.”

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