ESG Today

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Indices that are labelled as Paris-aligned Benchmarks (PABs) under EU rules must meet criteria for asset selection that results in the index aligning with the long-term climate goals of the Paris Agreement.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

The asset manager’s sustainable investment engagements typically run for three-year periods, with engagement specialists in contact with selected investee companies to track progress against objectives. According to Robeco, each of its engagement topics were selected following consultation with clients.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 12, 2020

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. Sustainable business trend 1 – Eco-designed Products. Sustainable business trend 2 – ESG Investment. Conclusions.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 8, 2023

times more equity value in fossil fuel production companies (US$880 billion) than in green investments (US$309 billion). times higher exposure to green investments than the average asset manager, the report noted, adding that Goldman Sachs and State Street are the most exposed to the fossil fuel production value chain, at 2.2

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2024

“Such assessments will also need to be regionalised, as different jurisdictions have access to different technologies and capital.” Last year, Robeco extended its Sustainable Investing (SI) Open Access Initiative to the public. There’s a lot of greenhushing going on because the industry expects perfection.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

Despite this, investment levels in SFDR’s Article 8 and Article 9 funds continue to grow, reaching €4.05 trillion at the end of December 2021 – representing 42.4% It lays down sustainability disclosure obligations for manufacturers of financial products and financial advisers toward end-investors. What impact has SFDR had?

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 9, 2023

InfluenceMap’s data also shows that companies with worse grades and greatest misalignment with the objectives of the Paris Agreement have higher levels of engagement intensity. Both of these companies have a C+ performance band scores, which indicates mixed alignment with the Paris Agreement. .

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 6, 2022

SUMMARY: Aligned With the Paris Agreement and Approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), JetBlue Commits to Reduce Jet Fuel Emissions 50% Per Revenue Tonne Kilometer by 2035 From 2019 Levels. SOURCE: JetBlue Airways.

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Chris Hall

MAY 24, 2024

Investor engagement with governments is an increasing area of focus, as investors move from a stewardship approach focused on company engagement to collaborative engagement with governments to address systemic risk – and thus create an enabling environment for sustainable investments.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

With the looming Paris Agreement goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 43% by 2030, nations are adopting different approaches to stimulating their green economy and encouraging sustainable investment. Since 2021, the EC has been deliberating whether SAF should be incorporated into the EU taxonomy.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 29, 2022

Institutional investors are increasingly attracted to climate-focused passive investment vehicles as a systematic and cost-effective way of transitioning their portfolios to net zero. . Recently, passive products that are ‘Paris-aligned’ – meaning they are decarbonising in line with a 1.5-2°C Window shopping .

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Chris Hall

MARCH 16, 2022

trillion annually, has attracted just US$13 billion in sustainable investment during the past decade. This explainer looks at the calls for a ‘sustainable blue economy’ and the role investors can play. What are the investment opportunities from supporting a sustainable blue economy ?

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

“To continue to drive energy transition in Asia, we believe there is room for engagement with wider stakeholders and to further strive for commitments that are aligned with the Paris Agreement,” Yi-Chen Chiang, Director of Sustainable Investment, Asia, at Manulife Investment Management, told ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including FTSE Russell, BondLink, Moody’s, Intercontinental Exchange and more. . of ESG issuance for 2021, according to the IHS Markit.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

And investors may be able to utilise their influence via engagement and voting to counteract legal action. A landmark 2021 ruling by a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions across global operations by 45% by the end of the decade from 2019 levels.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2022

As a high-emitting sector, oil and gas companies are under increasing pressure from investors and regulators to set decarbonisation targets that align with the goals of the Paris Agreement. Scope ESG said that “sustainable investment as a share of revenues remains below 2.5% Reducing emissions across all scopes .

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This work culminated in a new report, “ Decarbonization Pathways for Paraguay’s Energy Sector ,” published in November of 2021 by the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), and co-authored by the Quadracci Sustainable Engineering Lab at Columbia University, and Paraguay-based Centro de Recursos Naturales, Energía y Desarrollo (CRECE).

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Chris Hall

JULY 1, 2022

For example, the Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance is not led by sustainability teams, it’s typically CIOs who are driving it.”. ClimateWatch reports that while 193 out of 197 countries have ratified the Paris agreement on climate change, covering 94.6% of emissions.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 24, 2022

Consistent data on sovereign climate risks is crucial, says Victoria Barron, ASCOR Chair and Head of Sustainable Investment, BT Pension Scheme. In Q4 2021 , EU Member State and UK bonds and bills issuance was €624 billion. billion in sustainable bonds. billion at the end of 2020.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2022

Management of nature-related risks, impacts and dependencies could soon become central to asset owners’ sustainable investment strategies. From Paris to Kunming. The 2015 Paris Agreement set a single goal, of keeping climate change to 2°C above pre-industrial levels, albeit modified in 2018 to 1.5°C Article 2.1.c

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Chris Hall

APRIL 23, 2024

As of 2021, 212 companies fell under the safeguard mechanism, collectively contributing 28% of the country’s overall GHG emissions. The mechanism mandates Australian companies producing more than 100,000 tonnes of GHG annually to keep those emissions below a prescribed limit, which is lowered by 4.9% every year.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In the UK, the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) gave detailed guidance in January 2021 to businesses and trade associations on the treatment of sustainability agreements under UK competition law. Removing impediments.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 13, 2023

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including NatureAlpha, Verdantix, Solactive, Minerva Analytics, Euronext, Joulea, and Clarity AI. C goal of the Paris Agreement. index looks to respond to the growing demand for sustainable investment tools.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 7, 2022

Growing concerns over greenwashing and mislabelling were highlighted in a 2021 report published by think tank InfluenceMap. . Of the 130 climate-themed funds, 55% were not aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement, the report noted. . Regulators have made the fight against greenwashing a top priority.

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Chris Hall

JULY 27, 2022

Sustainable bond issuance in Asia ex-Japan rose to a record US$85 billion in 2021, according to Refinitiv data, and the market is expected to almost double in 2022, and quadruple by 2025. . Conditions are also “ripe”, as a Moody’s report asserts, for the increased issuance of sovereign sustainable bonds in the region. .

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Chris Hall

JULY 6, 2022

Through SIPs, trustees with 100 or more members are now expected to publicly state their – or their external managers’ – engagement policy and priorities, and explain in detail how they steward their sustainable investments. Plotting a path to Paris .

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 30, 2024

“The MEE wants to have a scientific and clear methodology to assure the quality of the CCER,” said Dr Guo Peiyuan, Chairman of SynTao Green Finance – the founding organisation of China’s Sustainable Investment Forum.   The CCER will now focus on four initial sectors: afforestation, solar power generation, offshore wind and mangrove planting.

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Chris Hall

MAY 6, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Church Commissioners for England, Morgan Stanley Investment Management , Newday, Gresham House, and T Rowe Price. trillion AUM as of December 2021. “A NZAM had 236 signatories with a collective US$57.5

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Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2022

Policy reform, best practice and legal judgments are redefining the relationship between fiduciary duty and sustainable investment. In late April, the UK High Court ruled that charity trustees can consider climate change factors when making decisions over their investments, even if it means making lower returns.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Her Triple B Framework – an approach to blended finance incorporating behavioural change and greater alignment of different types of capital – underpins the Bahamas Sustainable Investment Programme , announced at Clinton Global Initiative in September and in Dubai during COP28.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

While responding to customer or limited partner demand for ESG investments, funds are also looking to ESG-screened investments to outperform other investments because they have identified and better managed macro risks such as climate change and social unrest. oriented investment funds in 2021. [1]

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Chris Hall

JULY 10, 2023

The ‘Sowing Seeds’ report said that despite being prominently mentioned in the Paris Agreement, the social implications of addressing climate change have rarely been taken into account to date by agricultural policy, business or financial sector responses. Further, NatWest has pledged £1.25

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

C objective of the Paris Agreement would of course significantly limit these impacts. The harsh reality is that societies and investors will need to adapt to living – and investing – on a hotter planet. 5] MunichRe, 2021. 8] United Nations Environment Programme, (2021). Rapid decarbonisation and achieving the 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

MARCH 24, 2023

After the UN Secretary-General called for developed economies to fast-track net zero commitments by ten years, Therese Niklasson, Global Head of Sustainable Investment at Newton Investment Management emphasises the need for a collective effort. in 2021, to a new record above the pre-pandemic peak.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Clean Shipping Act would direct the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set increasingly stringent carbon intensity standards for shipping fuel by 2040, in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. Encouragingly, governments are also demonstrating a willingness to work together.

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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. Julie Segal, Senior Manager, Climate Finance at Environmental Defence, explains why Canada needs a Climate-Aligned Finance Act.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2022

According to analysts Circle Economy, adding circular economy solutions to countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement will enable global temperature rises to be kept “well below” 2?C. Circle Economy’s 2021 Circularity Gap Report revealed that the world economy is only 8.6%

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