James Militzer

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Nearly 70 countries have already included household energy or clean cooking-related goals as part of their climate plans through the Paris Agreement. In June of 2021, XpressGas , the fastest-growing liquified petroleum gas company in Ghana, raised $6 million. In February, Sistema.bio closed $15.6

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2023

n December 2015, the world took a vital step in tackling climate change by adopting the Paris Agreement. It was originally launched in March 2021 to assess corporates on their net zero transition against the initiative’s three core goals: emissions reduction, governance and disclosure.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Last year, many alternative asset managers worked harder than ever to ensure that their investment approach was equipped to meet one of the defining challenges of our time: sustainability. Although not a new theme for most firms, it was close to the top of the agenda in 2021. Climate first. Ambitious environmental programme”.

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Chris Hall

MAY 6, 2022

“Our Ocean Health ETF portfolio is 100% focused on companies with effective, legitimate green agendas, based on the knowledge and relationships we’ve built in our five years of impact investing,” said Doug Heske, Newday Impact CEO. “We trillion AUM as of December 2021. “A NZAM had 236 signatories with a collective US$57.5

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Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2022

More than half of UK pension funds representing £150 billion already hold some kind of impact investment and are targeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals relating to climate action, according to a survey by Pensions for Purpose and Big Society Capital. .

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Chris Hall

APRIL 21, 2023

In 2021, insured natural catastrophe losses reached around US$110 billion, according to Swiss Re, making it the third-costliest catastrophe year since 2011.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 20, 2023

Staying on track In December, ABP announced its plan to reduce its CO2 footprint across its entire global investment portfolio by 50% in 2030 compared to 2019 and set aside €30 billion (US$32.5

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Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2022

UNEP FI and PRI noted that despite “significant progress”, many investors had yet to fully integrate ESG issues into their investment decision-making processes. The 500+ page report focuses on sustainability impact in investor decision making. How are attitudes changing? Are returns no longer first among equals?

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This March, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a sustainable business forum in Vancouver “things have changed” since the country signed up to the Paris Agreement on climate change. But she continues: “All investments are impact investments.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 17, 2022

AXA IM Alts’ investment aims to support the continued development of GreenStruxure’s renewable energy microgrids, which provide affordable, decarbonised energy, bill optimisation and sustainability credits.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 27, 2022

In 2021, global electric vehicle (EV) sales more than doubled to 6.6 Moreover, all of the net growth of global car sales in 2021 came from the sale of EVs. China has emerged as a driver of the global EV market, almost tripling sales in 2021 to reach 3.4 This represented a tripling of EV’s market share from two years earlier.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Yet the goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement is to limit long-term temperature increases to well below 2 degrees—preferably 1.5 The Impact Investing Institute’s new Just Transition Finance Challenge , whose founding participants are development and mainstream asset owners and managers representing a total of $4.4

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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. Compared to countries like Europe, Australia was doing very little.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 16, 2024

Outcome-orientated finance – This week, the World Bank launched a “new model” for private investment in sustainable development, with its first Amazon reforestation outcome bond. It is also designed to enhance biodiversity and foster socioeconomic development in local communities.

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