3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Our sustainable debt markets are designed to highlight sustainable investment opportunities to investors with a green, social or sustainable investment agenda.

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3BL Media

JULY 23, 2024

Sustainable Sourcing: Joining the Global Shea Alliance, Mary Kay promotes economic well-being for the 16 million women Shea collectors in West Africa. Fostering Women in STEM: Committed to the development of the next generation of women STEM leaders, Mary Kay has awarded 29 grants totaling nearly $195,000 since 2020.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 1, 2024

Global issuance of labelled sustainable bonds – including green, social, sustainability, sustainability-linked, and transition bonds – declined sharply in the second quarter of 2024, as fewer new issuers entered the market and issuers contend with regulatory scrutiny, according to a new report released by Moody’s Ratings.

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ESG Today

APRIL 27, 2023

Issuance volumes of green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked (GSSS) bonds rebounded strongly in Q1 2023, resuming double-digit growth trends after falling 18% in 2022, according to a new report from Moody’s Investors Service.

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ESG Today

JULY 5, 2023

Aeroporti di Roma (ADR), the manager and developer of Rome Fiumicino and Ciampino airports, announced the completion of a new 10-year €400 million sustainability-linked bond (SLB), with the cost of debt on the bond tied to a series of the airport operations group’s climate-related goals.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

He continues: “Our approach to nature is closely linked with our ambitions on climate, circularity, social sustainability and food systems. 7 WEF, 2020 IPBES secretariat, Bonn, Germany. 6 Johnson, J.A. The Economic Case for Nature : A Global Earth-Economy Model to Assess Development Policy Pathways. World Bank, Washington, DC.

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ESG Today

JUNE 7, 2023

Founded in 2020, H2 Green Steel is building the world’s first large-scale fossil-free steel plant in Boden, Sweden, with the project including a giga-scale green hydrogen plant as an integrated part of the steel production facility.

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ESG Today

JULY 31, 2023

In North America, however, volumes fell to $25 billion in the quarter, the lowest since Q2 2020, with share declining to only 4% of the overall bond market in the region. Market share rose as well to 12% in Asia Pacific, 29% in Middle East and Africa and 32% in Latin America and Caribbean.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The HCV assessment will follow guidance from HCV Network “High Conservation Value Screening: Guidance for Identifying and Prioritizing Action for HCVS in Jurisdictional and Landscape Settings, ” published in October 2020. Director of YEL M.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Active Super has long-been a leader across Australia when it comes to environmental and social sustainability. Lendlease was also among the first first Australian office portfolios to achieve the WELL Health-Safety Rating in 2020, with a renewal in April 2022, providing benefits for individuals in and out of the workplace.

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Chris Hall

JULY 26, 2023

Investor demand for green, social, sustainability, sustainability-linked and transition bonds (GSS+) has surged in H1 2023, with regulatory developments bringing greater transparency and confidence to the market. Linklaters forecasts record year for green bonds, while SLB issuance suffers Q2 slowdown.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

For example, 79% of Global 100 firms had sustainability-linked pay; only 30% of the broader corporate universe linked executive pay to the achievement of environmental or social sustainability targets. It is a similar story for gender and racial diversity, though the difference is less stark.

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Sustainable Development Network

MARCH 17, 2021

The School tackles the issues of environmental, economic and social sustainability in an integrated way, while promoting concrete, successful solutions Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA On 23 February, the third edition of the Siena Advanced School on Sustainable Development successfully ended with the participation of 45 students.

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James Militzer

JULY 20, 2022

A total of over 14,100 ultra-poor households were divided into seven cohorts, which were offered the one-year program at different times, with the last cohort starting in January 2020. The first round of data collection to measure the program’s impact on the first four cohorts was scheduled for April-May 2020.

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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 The ESG-labelled bond markets are typically considered to include green, social, sustainability, sustainability-linked and transition bonds. Social bond issues totalled US192.9

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The increase in the size of the Australian responsible investment market in 2021 – which now accounts for 43% of the country’s total AUM, up from 40% in 2020 – was supported by strong returns to customers. The report also recorded a 54% rise in the amount of assets being managed in strategies prioritising corporate engagement.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As a global snacking leader dedicated to making snacking right, we are determined to lead in helping to drive sector-wide transformation for more sustainable sourcing at scale. Its success has encouraged the Cooperative Elevator Co.’s

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 29, 2024

Investors responding to the 2020 GIIN survey also disclosed their concerns over the quality of impact management and measurement. Eighty-nine percent of investors said transparency and comparability were a ‘significant’ or ‘moderate’ challenge.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

20 A sustainable food value chain is a food value chain that: is profitable throughout all of its stages (economic sustainability); has broad-based benefits for society (social sustainability); and has a positive or neutral impact on the natural environment (environmental sustainability).

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

Estimated adaptation costs and financing needs in developing countries are between five to ten times greater than recorded 2020 international public adaptation finance flows, according to the 2021 Adaptation Gap report published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). . trillion, the Climate Bonds report said. billion. .

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The market has been maturing rapidly since then, with the development of social and sustainable bond issuance and then sustainability-linked bonds (SLB) more recently.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The prediction that the pandemic would entrench and exacerbate inequalities appears to have been borne out: nearly 40% of the reduction in the labour income share over the past two decades occurred during the pandemic years 2020-22. The figures also maintain a downward trajectory that has persisted since the 1980s.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In its 2022 report, US SIF Foundation recorded a halving in the overall amount of US assets managed sustainably – US$8.4 trillion in 2020 – due to a change in methodology and an impending tightening of regulation. of all assets managed professionally in the US – or one in eight US dollars – are managed sustainably.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 11, 2021

Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals Before Covid-19, most countries were making progress towards the SDGs, as shown in this year’s Sustainable Development Report 2020 (SDR2020) issued by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the Bertelsmann Stiftung.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

A recent report by Pictet Asset Management and the Institute of International Finance said “a fully-fledged sustainable debt market” would go a long way to filling the SDG financing gap, predicting sustainable bond issuance in emerging markets would grow from US$50 billion per year in 2020 to US$360 billion by 2023.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 29, 2022

Serving as an update to the PRI’s 2020 ‘Testing the Taxonomy’ report , the latest study has explored how asset manager signatories used the taxonomy last year, outlining recommendations for both asset managers and policymakers to address highlighted concerns. .

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Summary and recording of the SDSN event on the sustainability of the European Recovery and the role of knowledge institutions, held on 22 October 2020 SDSN’s online event of October 22, 2020 focused on the alignment of the European Recovery Plan and the European Semester with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

It is the GMPF’s second investment into the fund, following its initial £10 million seed investment into NHPF2 at launch in December 2020. The UK-based Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF) has invested a further £10 million into the National Homelessness Property Fund 2 (NHPF2), taking the total raised to £65 million.

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Chris Hall

JULY 7, 2023

David Zahn , Head of Sustainable Fixed Income at Franklin Templeton , says new standards and innovations are expanding the supply of green bonds to meet increased investor demand. Investor demand for green, social, sustainability-linked and transition bonds (GSS+) continues to rise rapidly, outstripping supply.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In recent weeks, Bloomberg has announced the launch of the Bloomberg Global Aggregate Green, Social, Sustainability Bond Indices , while MSCI unveiled a suite of indices under the Climate Action banner. The market for green benchmarks is getting crowded and it’s no longer confined to equities.

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Chris Hall

JULY 13, 2022

WDI noted in 2020 that 98% of assessed companies said D&I is a priority, but many failed to provide data to demonstrate progress in key areas. However, corporate reporting often does not reflect these principles being put into practice. Asset owners end up monitoring a range on indicators and metrics. .

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GreenBiz

MAY 8, 2021

The 2021 proxy season is officially here — much awaited after the tumultuous events of 2020. That’s almost double compared to 2020. The 2021 proxy season: What’s on the menu? Aman Singh. Sat, 05/08/2021 - 15:11. It noted: "At Walmart, we think we maximize long-term value for our shareholders by serving our stakeholders. Pull Quote.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

As COVID came to dominate 2020, she helped donate more than 600,000 meals and 100,000 pounds of packaging to food banks. The project is personal: his childhood home in Santa Rosa, California, burned in the 2020 Glass Fire. Resch sees her common career thread as what she calls "social sustainability.". Secretary-General.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In recent years, social sustainability has gained increasing attention from businesses, consumers, regulators, and civil society. Social sustainability means putting people first and implementing business practices that contribute to the human dimensions of sustainable development.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11 and 12 concern social issues, whether directly (e.g., SDG 1 Ending Poverty SDG 2 Zero Hunger; SDG 4 Quality Education; SDG 11 Sustainable Cities or SDG 12 Responsible Consumption & Production).

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

By Minjia Yang and Kristen Coco A new report on sustainable finance developed by the United Nations Global Compact Network USA features the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), highlighting the critical role of social sustainability in driving financial strategies and investment decisions.

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