Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The Net Zero Asset Managers initiative (NZAM) has published the targets of an additional 86 members for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in their portfolios. trillion assets managed by members is now committed to being managed in line with achieving net zero by 2050 or sooner. . billion. . of its assets. .

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The ruling referred to ads displayed in bus stops in London and Bristol in October 2021, in the run-up to the COP26 climate conference, promoting HSBC’s initiatives to provide up to $1 trillion in finance and investment to help clients transition to net zero, and to help plant 2 million trees.

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ESG Today

JULY 10, 2024

By: Priyanka Bawa , Senior Analyst in the Verdantix ESG & Sustainability practice Despite more net zero targets being set than ever before, and more science-based targets being used to back them, 2022 research from South Pole shows that one in four businesses do not intend to talk about their science-aligned climate targets.

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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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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. There is another potential loophole in the report.

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ESG Today

MARCH 15, 2023

The announcement was made Wednesday as part of Hunt’s first budget speech as Chancellor, during which Hunt said that nuclear would provide a “critical source of cheap and reliable energy,” and that “increasing nuclear capacity is vital to meet our Net Zero obligations.”

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3BL Media

JANUARY 17, 2024

Emphasizing the impact of a company’s core products and services, the Global 100 is one of the world’s most valued and transparent sustainability ratings. To determine its rankings, over 6,000 companies were assessed across 25 key performance indicators including sustainable investment, carbon productivity and racial and gender diversity.

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Chris Hall

JULY 1, 2022

This is the assessment of Eric Usher, Head of the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) which brings together the United Nations and the financial sector to develop responsible investment agendas. For example, the Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance is not led by sustainability teams, it’s typically CIOs who are driving it.”.

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3BL Media

MARCH 1, 2022

Holding the companies accountable on their commitments to net zero targets will help ensure the implementation of net zero strategies, through financial institution engagement, including a decline of coal, oil and gas within portfolios.

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ESG Today

JUNE 20, 2024

Fashion and design brands company H&M Group announced the launch of a new partnership with zero-carbon industrial heat solutions provider Rondo Energy, aimed at applying Rondo’s industrial decarbonization solution to help address the emissions footprint of H&M’s supply chain.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 5, 2024

Realizing that climate impacts threaten more than supply chains and physical infrastructure, we made the commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2050, using our 2019 baseline. WATER AND WASTE We began gathering data on water consumption and waste in our buildings in 2020.

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3BL Media

MAY 20, 2022

The plan for such a research partnership got a kickstart from a paper written in 2020, by Jordy Lee, a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines in the US and now Program Manager of the affiliated Payne Institute for Public Policy. In Responsible or reckless?

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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 trillion by 2026, up from US$18.4

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This has included legislating a 2050 net zero target and setting a legally-binding target to reduce emissions by 43% by 2030 below 2005 levels. 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

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

With global trade highly dependent on shipping, achieving net zero may put wind in the sails of other industries’ climate ambitions. Zero or near-zero GHG emission technologies, fuels and/or energy sources must represent at least 5% (striving for 10%) of the energy used by international shipping by 2030, the IMO has pledged.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Tim Day, Investment Fund Manager at Trina Solar, explains the importance of Europe’s sustainable investment community in the growth of solar power. Investment is the catalyst in the ongoing growth of PV, and will be integral in ensuring solar is well-positioned to help meet our net zero targets.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The concept of assessing what effective stewardship should look like was first introduced by the FCA in 2019 in a joint effort with the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), setting the groundwork which helped define what the minimum expectations should be for financial services firms investing on behalf of clients and beneficiaries.

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Chris Hall

MAY 5, 2022

“These sub-funds are trying to play in that sweet spot where the investment case and the impact are aligned, delivering strong investment returns while minimising any potential negative impacts on the environment and wider society,” said Patrick O’Hara, LGPS Central’s Director of Responsible Investment and Engagement. .

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 25, 2024

This would be achieved through more frequent SMR projects, according to Danielle Welsh-Rose, Head of Sustainability Investment Specialists, APAC Sustainability Institute, at asset manager abrdn. “For that to occur, regulators and planning/approval processes would need to be faster and more streamlined,” she said.

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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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Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2022

Many pension funds still in “early stages” of net zero investing, but expect to use targeted index products to align passive portfolios to Paris goals. But more work clearly needs to be done, by institutional investors and investment solution providers, if we are to reach net zero.”.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Managers investing in sustainability offerings, but net zero ambitions still open to question. . An annual study of the largest 500 global asset managers by TAI, the sustainable investment research arm of consultancy firm WTW, found that the top 20 firms’ share of total assets increased from 44% in 2020 to 45.2%

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Chris Hall

MARCH 21, 2024

In addition to the £250 million invested across Greater London, the LPFA has invested £150 million through the London Fund – a collaboration between LGPS Pools London CIV and LPPI. Only 15% of surveyed firms said the UK was currently the most attractive market for green and sustainable investments.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 12, 2020

2020 has been a year for pausing and thinking about our existence on this planet. Besides, the business case for sustainability has only gotten stronger. In this article, I’ll do a quick summary of 2020 and then present four sustainable business trends that could finally explode in 2021. 2020 Sustainability Summary.

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Chris Hall

JULY 6, 2023

There is a growing divide between private market investors adopting sustainable investing strategies and those choosing to distance themselves from sustainability-related themes and considerations due to the anti-ESG movement.

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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. Regulators are already pushing back against the risk of greenwashing with a range of fund disclosure , naming and labelling rules. The post Take Five: Into the Stratosphere appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 1, 2022

CalSTRS’ commitment to achieving net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 or sooner has heightened the asset owner’s scrutiny of investee companies’ decarbonisation targets and performance. Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which manages Norway’s US$1.1 As of 31 May, 2021, CalSTRS manages US$306.7

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Chris Hall

MARCH 4, 2024

A review of the UK Stewardship Code 2020 should prompt evolution rather than revolution, according to industry experts, who want to see refinement aimed at further improving outcomes. Review welcomed as an opportunity to streamline, clarify and raise standards, including greater tilt toward portfolio-level approaches.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Earlier in the meeting, Neelam Chhiber, Co-Founding and Managing Trustee at India-based Industree Foundation, said estimates suggested that the capital required to meet net zero by 2050 would total US$150 trillion, with at least two-thirds of having to be allocated outside of North America and Europe. “Our actions cannot be localised,” he said.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Manulife IM, AXA IM, Nordea, DWS, Oaktree Capital, Ossiam, and Swiss Life Asset Management. The Sustainable Asia Equity Fund, Asian High Yield Fund, and U.S.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Climate change is the leading issue being addressed by US asset owners that incorporate ESG factors into their investment decisions, according to the US SIF Foundation’s latest biennial Report on US Sustainable Investing Trends. trillion in 2020 – due to a change in methodology and an impending tightening of regulation.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

In 2020, Eurostat reported that renewable energy made up 22.1% of the EU’s gross electricity consumption in 2020, said Eurostat, of which two thirds was produced by wind and hydropower. Investing in a renewable future. The EU has been making slow progress to date in its renewable energy transition.

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Chris Hall

JULY 26, 2024

Europe’s new code – As Ursula von der Leyen mulled over the composition of her top team for the next five years , the European Commission’s incoming finance chief was already getting advice on the future of sustainable investment. Withdrawals from Climate Action 100+ have been taken by many as signs that the red team is winning.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The climate crisis, and the necessary transition to a net-zero economy, exacerbate the risks to people across the value chain, whether in the form of lost livelihoods from extreme weather events and rising temperatures, or loss of employment from a rapid shift away from carbon-intensive practices.

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Chris Hall

JULY 6, 2022

It is through good stewardship that corporate engagement can drive high carbon emitting companies to develop and implement a net zero transition plan, which will ultimately help to decarbonise the global economy,” says Stephanie Pfeifer, CEO at the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). .

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

PE firms have helped to grow the popularity of impact investing. According to a report published by Ceres , the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative has grown to 128 investors who collectively manage $43 trillion. A large and growing share of that investment capitol is going towards impact investments. In 2020, U.S.

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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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