Corporate Knights

JUNE 29, 2023

A ton of climate tech companies are working on solutions that leverage AI,” says Ariel Sharir, an impact investing analyst at The Atmospheric Fund. “It Ariel Sharir, impact investing analyst, The Atmospheric Fund In architecture, some firms are incorporating analytics and AI into their computer-aided design platforms.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Investors are increasingly considering sustainability beyond the risk management lens, with the global impact investing market reaching an estimated US$1.64 Increasing sophistication There is little likelihood or demand for a ‘one size fits all’ model for impact investing.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Anti-greenwashing rules and guidance may become “diamond standard”. Anti-greenwashing guidance proposed by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), as well as the promise of extending the finalised Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDRs) to pension products, has been welcomed by the investment industry.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2022

“The ESG fund boom shows that investors want to see ESG factors taken into account, but it’s tricky to provide evidence a fund does that,” said Arleta Majoch, chief operating officer at Impact Cubed. Linking our factual data to tech-enabled tools is a powerful antidote to ESG ratings confusion and concerns about greenwashing.”

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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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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

After he got his MBA from the University of Liverpool, Sandhu decided to branch out on his own, founding Pangea Natural Foods in the spring of 2021. And he hopes that his impact-investing management firm (which he co-founded and helped launch this summer) will play an important role in closing the US$2.5-trillion

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B the Change

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

One explanation for this growth may come from people looking to align their spending with their values, as another report found that 66% of consumers reported that they are willing to spend more for goods and services from companies that are committed to making a positive social impact. Yet this hasn’t limited Lemonade’s social impact.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

trillion in 2021. To be classified as a responsible investment fund by the IA, the fund needs to either have specific exclusions, a sustainability focus, or an impact investment strategy. trillion by 2026, up from US$18.4 ESG integration alone is not sufficient for inclusion.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2023

But if you are not willing to concede any returns from your “impact” investments, your options are limited. We interviewed more than two dozen professionals with expertise in asset management, impact investment, asset allocation, and measurement. Issuance of green bonds has more than tripled from 2017 to 2021.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2022

The DWP issued a consultation last October on proposed changes to the Occupational Pension Schemes (Climate Change Governance and Reporting) Regulations 2021 to require trustees to calculate and disclose a portfolio alignment metric to show alignment with the goal of limiting climate change to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 4, 2023

The CAGR since 2011 has been 7%, but the Climate Policy Initiative has calculated it must be at least 21% by 2030 if the worst impacts of climate change are to be avoided. * – This represents the lower end of a projected figure of up to $940 billion for 2021.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The FCA finalised the four new labels – focus, improvers, impact and mixed goals – for UK sustainability-focused funds last year as part of its work to limit greenwashing. Fund managers will be able to use them from 31 July, with disclosures required 12 months later.

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Jon Hale

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Highlights and Observations Let’s try for greater transparency in 2022 Sustainable funds and investors had enormous success in 2021. Landscape Report | Morningstar Sustainable Funds Landscape Highlights The sustainable funds landscape in the United States continued to grow in 2021. End of Week Notes Sustainable Funds Landscape?—?Highlights

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Chris Hall

APRIL 13, 2023

Oulton, also Global Head of Responsible Investment at First Sentier Investors, noted that the current methodology doesn’t have a specific category to effectively capture SFDR’s Article 9 funds, which promote environmental and/or social objectives. trillion, with US$1.5 trillion based in Europe.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In a Q&A that followed the discussion, an audience member asked him whether he thought carbon and biodiversity credits were a form of greenwashing. There’s so much debate about it, but I think there’s a high-quality carbon credit space,” he responded.

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James Militzer

MAY 31, 2024

And a 2021 report from The Economist found that global online searches for sustainable goods had increased by 71% between 2016 and 2020. However, despite this positive shift in consumer investment choices, a considerable portion of these ETFs are blatant greenwashing and lack meaningful environmental impact.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 3, 2022

This not only creates considerable confusion among investors but exposes them to accusations of greenwashing, as well as the risk of holding investments that are not aligned with their own ESD/SDG requirements. billion was invested into sustainable funds in Q4 2021 alone. According to Morningstar, US$142.5

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Segal says: “In Canada, there is only attention on how climate change impacts an institution, company or the economy and not enough emphasis on how the decisions they make impact the environment. But she continues: “All investments are impact investments.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2023

trillion in 2021. ChinaSIF estimates that the size of China’s ESG market in 2022 was RMB 24.6 trillion (US$3.57 trillion) growing from RMB 18.4

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In 2021, the competition lawyer worked with the Québec Environmental Law Center to file one of the first-ever climate -washing cases in Canada, aiming to reform Canada’s consumer protection laws to better regulate net-zero pledges and carbon-neutrality claims. I’ve been drawn to entrepreneurship and sustainability from a young age,” she says.

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Chris Hall

JULY 5, 2023

Thankfully the finance industry didn’t do that.” ASFI started back in 2021 on a sustainability roadmap for Australia, including a taxonomy and other sustainable-related policy initiatives. “It was a really smart move,” says Reynolds. Australia is forecast to earn US$302 billion from resource and energy exports, reports Energy Monitor.

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