Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Late last year, in the wake of COP26, the U.K.’s As an example, he points to Big Time, the 2022 album by singer/songwriter Angel Olsen. They have to do it together – not just the musicians onstage, but also promoters, labels, record manufacturers, merchandisers, concert promoters and record labels. And they have to do it quickly.

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ESG Today

MARCH 30, 2023

The TPT launched its framework in November 2022, and is expected to publish it and its implementation guidance for transition plans in the summer of 2023. The regulation was initially planned to be passed into law in late 2022, but had been delayed until at least later this year.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 2, 2022

At COP26 in Glasgow the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation announced the creation of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) to develop a comprehensive global baseline of sustainability disclosures. Jane Thostrup Jagd is deputy director of net zero finance at the We Mean Business Coalition.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In this article, I’ll summarise key sustainability events defining 2021 and then present four sustainable ESG trends that will settle companies’ environment in 2022. Finally, we had the Conference of the parties COP26, where countries and businesses increased their climate ambition. ESG trends in 2022: Net-Zero ambition.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2022

2022 work plan for sustainable finance focuses on assurance, carbon markets and reporting standards. The 2022 work plan builds on IOSCO’s 2021 release of recommendations for the oversight of ESG ratings and data providers, and guidance on preventing greenwashing in fund products. Avoiding greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

Alongside the progress of a bill in California calling for fossil fuel divestment by public-sector pensions, and the SEC’s plans for climate-risk disclosures , this new assault on greenwashing moves US policy closer to its European counterparts, where fund disclosure rules are already reshaping the market.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Last year we had great hopes that 2022 would be the year to build back better in the aftermath of COVID-19. In this article, I’ll summarise key events defining 2022 and present four sustainability trends that will prepare you to create an impact in 2023. 2022 Sustainability Summary.

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Chris Hall

MAY 3, 2022

The effectiveness of asset owner and manager actions in tackling greenwashing by companies is seen as critical to the low-carbon transition. NGO Reclaim Finance’s 2022 climate Scorecard says asset managers’ engagement policies “fail to send clear signals to fossil fuel companies”. What are the shortcomings with engagement?

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Jam open the closing window – The UN Environment Programme’s Emissions Gap Report 2022 was the most sobering of the many pre-COP27 analyses published this week, highlighting the inadequacy of our efforts to tackle the causes of climate change. Current pledges will nudge global warming down from its present 2.8°C C course to 2.5°C

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The pace has quickened further in 2022 in response to then Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s April 2021 announcement that by 2030 the country’s emissions would reduce by 46% relative to 2013 levels. Adequate disclosure is critical if the ESG funds are to avoid “being ridiculed as “greenwashing”, it said.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Having launched its framework in November 2022, the TPT aims to finalise its disclosure framework and implementation guidance and will develop sectoral guidance.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Comparability minimizes opportunities for greenwash, provides the clearest picture to investors looking for the world’s most sustainable companies, and delivers the accountability that is essential to drive further progress. There has been significant development on reporting standards since COP26.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 31, 2022

With a busy schedule taking shape across the final four months of 2022, including critical inter-governmental meetings in Egypt , Indonesia and Canada , we have outlined some of the key themes discussed at our sustainable investment and regulation roundtable, held at ESG Investor ’s London offices in late July.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Following the UK government’s COP26 declaration that all new cars and vans must be 100% zero emission by 2035, there has been a paradigm shift, with an ever-increasing demand for electric vehicles. Research indicates that 20% of new car registrations in 2022 were electric vehicles, resulting in 27.5%

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 2, 2022

Notably, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) – launched at COP26 in Glasgow in 2021 – has been tasked with developing a comprehensive global baseline of sustainability disclosures for the world’s capital markets. billion in 2022. . consultant Optimas. That figure may jump to US$1.3 Policy gap .

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Appetite for emerging market green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked (GSSS) bonds has surged since the COP26 Summit which saw some of the world’s richest countries promise US$100 billion in finance for climate mitigation in developing countries. Gold standard.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At COP26, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero ( GFANZ ) declared a sector-wide commitment of US$130 trillion – a number that has increased over the year to US$150 trillion – of private capital to transition the global economy to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. On this critical issue, there has been no absence of good intent.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Also in 2022, the Investor Leadership Network (ILN), representing 14 global institutional investors managing US$9 trillion in assets, called for the creation of a rolling pool of funds offering first or second loss guarantees to blended finance vehicles funding EMDE projects.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Adapting to reality – The findings of the UN’s Adaptation Gap Report 2022 should ensure the topic commands attention throughout COP27, which starts Sunday (as if a year of record-breaking droughts, floods and heatwaves wasn’t enough). But from Australia to India to Gabon , there are examples of ambitious policy action in 2022.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Getting to net-zero – without greenwashing. The last climate conference, COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, nearly fell apart over frustration that international finance wasn’t flowing to developing countries and that corporations and financial institutions were greenwashing – making claims they couldn’t back up.

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Richard Matthews

MARCH 14, 2022

January 24, 2022 is a day that will live in infamy. At the most recent climate talks (COP26) Ukraine announced that it was joining the Powering Past Coal Alliance promising to phase out coal by 2035. Ukraine delivered more than promises. Putin has been silencing critics including environmental activists for years.

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