Corporate Knights

JANUARY 20, 2023

Of the 6,720 companies the Corporate Knights team analyzed for our 2023 Global 100 ranking of the world’s most sustainable corporations, a select few stand out. The multinational IT corporation is already well on its way to diversifying its leadership, as 58% of its executives are racially diverse, up from 43% in 2021. It pumped €8.6

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ESG Today

JANUARY 7, 2025

The new resolution follows the release last year by Shell of its Energy Transition Strategy 2024, the first update to its Powering Progress strategy, launched in 2021, outlining the companys climate transition roadmap and goals. The resolution failed, receiving only 18.6% shareholder support.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As a group, over the course of the past decade (2012 to 2021) these 20 companies slashed their net GHG emissions (Scope 1 and 2) by 43%, from 862 million tonnes to 489 million tonnes. During this period, it bet the farm on renewables (wind and solar) and grid modernization, building some 70 renewable power plants in 2021 alone.

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ESG Today

MAY 23, 2023

David Helgerson, Managing Director and Co-Head of Impact at Hamilton Lane said: “Across our sustainable investment platform we are seeing a broad and diverse spectrum of investment opportunities in companies that offer compelling economic solutions to the problems of the world today.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 2, 2024

million) penalty for making false claims about some of its sustainable investment options. The Federal Court in Australia issued a judgement Friday, ordering Marsh McLennan company Mercer Superannuation to pay an A$11.3 million ($USD7.4 Mercer has admitted to the allegations in the case.

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3BL Media

MAY 4, 2022

We will be focused not only on our corporate sustainability efforts, which include reducing the organization’s greenhouse gas emissions and enhancing our reporting infrastructure, but also expanding our stewardship and sustainable investing practices across our global investment portfolios.” . Major 2021 CSR Achievements.

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3BL Media

JULY 21, 2022

1)Assets under management as of December 31, 2021. Tweet me: @NorthernTrust shares an open letter from Julie Moret, Global Head of Sustainable Investing and Stewardship. KEYWORDS: NASDAQ:NTRS, Northern Trust, esg investment. Read it here: [link].

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

BlackRock Global Head of Sustainable Investing Paul Bodnar announced that he will be departing the firm, to join the Bezos Earth Fund. BlackRock has changed the way the financial sector thinks about sustainability. The fund has provided over 100 grants to date, allocating more than $1.6

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

While the divestment movement was largely born on campuses decades ago, some big names have finally joined the divestment deluge in the latter half of 2021 – including California State University, Loyola University in Chicago, Harvard and the University of Toronto. The findings should no doubt add fuel to the movement’s fire.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 22, 2023

The good news in the second Canadian Pensions Dashboard for Responsible Investing, released March 22 and based on 2021 data, is that our pension funds are starting to embrace sustainability. The dashboard shows that sustainable investments composed nearly 13% of the pension funds’ total assets of $2.2 79000 0.14

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3BL Media

MARCH 21, 2022

Sustainable investment funds are mushrooming. Assets under management in Morningstar’s global sustainable fund universe surged to $2.75 trillion at December 31, 2021, nearly three times the pre-pandemic level, according to Morningstar. To be sure, the sustainable investing boom is not without risks.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Why SPACs will be key to the sustainability revolution. Thu, 02/18/2021 - 02:11. Today, the rise of SPACs is a capital markets innovation that matches the urgency and scope of our global sustainability challenges. In just the first six weeks of 2021, SPACs raised $33 billion, more than was raised by all SPACs before 2020.

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GreenBiz

MAY 6, 2021

John Davies, Senior Vice President & Analyst at GreenBiz, interviewed Karina Funk, Portfolio Manager & Chair of Sustainable Investing at Brown Advisory, during GreenFin 21 (April 13-14, 2021). Thu, 05/06/2021 - 14:55. View archived videos from the conference here: [link]. taylor flores.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

According to the organizations, the new resource follows significant growth in recent years in investor interest in ESG issues, driving a proliferation of investment products and practices, but also leading to new terminology that can be unclear or inconsistent.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

Wed, 04/28/2021 - 00:05. To that end, investors such as the SEIU and Trillium have filed resolutions related to racial justice in unprecedented numbers and scope this year, according to the 2021 Proxy Preview produced by nonprofits the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2), As You Sow and Proxy Impact.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 23, 2021

Fri, 04/23/2021 - 00:05. Arcadis , a Dutch engineering firm, is applying that knowledge to cities around the world by creating infrastructures with sustainability at the forefront, such as water recycling facilities inside manufacturing companies in Mexico. . When you think climate change, you need to think about water. Melody Waintal.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

According to a 2021 survey by Morgan Stanley, 99 percent of millennials surveyed were interested in sustainable investing, an all-time high. Interest in sustainability persisted despite the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change is the key focus. DESCRIPTION: by Lana Khabarova, founder of SustainFi .

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The original intent of the company was to help make protein affordable,” current CEO Roberto Guidetti told Well magazine in May 2021. Vitasoy has extensive guidelines for suppliers, covering sustainable farming and fair labour practices, among others. billion Hong Kong dollars from 2011 to 2021. Annual revenues doubled to 7.52

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

DESCRIPTION: This article first appeared in Sustainable Investment: [link]. Sustainability disclosure and client demand is fundamentally changing how fund management teams operate. For Article 9 funds, investment teams rarely get away with outsourcing such activity. Here's how.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Tue, 02/09/2021 - 02:00. If successfully on stream by summer 2021 as its designers hope, the service should drive not only increased transparency but also increased accountability. Sustainable investments should grow as divestment from carbon-intensive industries intensifies. Ian Kearney.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Joe Biden can be the president for a sustainable private sector. Mon, 02/15/2021 - 01:00. His ability to achieve his agenda will require action from key sectors across the country, including the investment and business community. Advancing policies that support the growth of a sustainable American economy also supports U.S.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

In the 2024 Global 100 ranking, the top-ranked firms allocated 55% of their investments to sustainable projects, up from 47% the year prior. That compares with sustainable investments at a paltry 17% among the broader universe of publicly traded companies with more than US$1 billion in annual revenue.

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3BL Media

MARCH 21, 2022

The law requires a minimum of one minority director by the end of 2021 and larger boards to have a minimum of 2-3 by the end of 2022. This proposal was passed in August 2021 and will require all companies listed on Nasdaq’s U.S. 4, 2021, [link]. 4 "Q3 2021 Equilar Gender Diversity Index," Equilar, Oct 28, 2021: [link].

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 26, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Martin Currie, specialist investment manager of Franklin Templeton and steward of $18.8 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2022, received strong ratings under the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment’s (PRI) 2021 reporting framework.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

In a lawsuit launched last year by Australia’s corporate, markets, and financial services regulator, the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC), however, ASIC alleged that ESG research was not conducted over a significant proportion of the bond issuers in the fund, exposing investors to investments with ties to fossil fuels, including (..)

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 2, 2023

Since FinanceMap’s 2021 report, asset managers’ portfolios are still misaligned with net zero targets, environmental stewardship efforts have stagnated, and asset managers are not supporting effective sustainable finance policy,” said Daan Van Acker, program manager for FinanceMap, an online, publicly available platform produced by InfluenceMap.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 27, 2023

Researchers found that in each scenario, the pension fund missed out on similar returns. And a breakdown of the Colorado pension fund’s total returns by sector shows that oil and gas stocks had the lowest returns during this period (even with high returns from 2021 to 2022 due to skyrocketing energy prices caused by the invasion of Ukraine).

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 8, 2023

But PE is well placed to lead sustainable investing. In 2021 , the PE industry reached more than US$5 trillion in assets under management, with expectations to grow well beyond $11 trillion by 2026. Research by BlackRock shows that PE outperformed the S&P 500 and MSCI World indexes by 2.8

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

1 Seventy percent of investors in full- or part-time jobs would probably or definitely include sustainable funds in their 401(k)s if offered by their employers’ plans. assets was either in sustainable investments or tied to ESG practices, 3 with assets set to surge from $35 trillion to $50 trillion in the next three years.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 28, 2023

Tellingly, the 2023 list is dominated by renewable-energy players high in sustainable revenue. Topping the Best 50 this year (up from second place in 2022 and 20th in 2021) is a pure-play clean energy company: Innergex Renewable Energy. In third place is Hydro-Québec, which was the top company in 2022, 2021 and 2018.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 13, 2025

According to the report, debt financing remains the dominant source of sustainable investment flows, with green European bond issuance exceeding 200 billion every year since 2021. Half of this was directed toward enabling activities, while transitional activities accounted for 11% of the total (double the previous year).

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GreenBiz

APRIL 19, 2021

Mon, 04/19/2021 - 02:00. Corporate sustainability reporting starts with a laudable goal: that measurement and reporting of a company’s social and environmental footprint would trigger the following positive chain reaction: Individual companies’ social and environmental performance would improve (because what gets measured gets managed).

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 3, 2025

Drastic changes to the scope of sustainability reporting rules will limit investor access to comparable and reliable sustainability data, said Aleksandra Palinska, executive director at the European Sustainable Investment Forum, Europes umbrella network for sustainable finance, in a press release.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Natron's cutting-edge sodium-ion batteries presented an ideal opportunity to both potentially expand our sustainability investment portfolio to our ground operations, and to help make our airport operations more resilient. Learn more about their sustainability investments here: [link].

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3BL Media

AUGUST 2, 2022

Composed of senior representatives representing the firm’s diverse business functions — and, in turn, the breadth of our clients’ needs — the committee members include equity and bond research analysts, portfolio managers, and ESG and sustainable investing specialists. Additionally, risk professionals from EMEA and the U.S.

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

Mon, 05/03/2021 - 02:00. It is the first time I have spoken in my capacity as chair of the advisory board of Imperial’s new Leonardo Centre , a research facility for sustainable business, which will formally launch in June. Leading in a fundamentally changing world. Lise Kingo. What is responsible leadership?

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Bos joins the firm after holding a series of senior ESG investing positions, including most recently serving as Global Head of Sustainable Investing at Credit Suisse Asset Management. Bos joined Credit Suisse , recently acquired by UBS, in 2021 as the firm’s first Global Head of Sustainable Investing.

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