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MetLife 2022 Sustainability Report: Creating Value as an Investor

3BL Media

Read the full MetLife 2022 Sustainability Report MetLife Creating Value as an Investor Our Approach MetLife’s General Account is a key to living up to our promises and our purpose. MetLife’s General Account, which totals over $400 billion dollars, is invested responsibly for the long term. 3 Annual investments in 2022.

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Businesses and investors need to roll up their sleeves and join the race to revive biodiversity

Corporate Knights

As a scholar in sustainable finance, I believe that while these initiatives and discussions are important, we need more targeted and urgent investments in nature-friendly solutions to reverse biodiversity loss. The future lies in impact investing. Without nature, we are nothing”. Integrating nature in financial decisions.

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How insurance companies can move the needle on climate change

Corporate Knights

New insurance products and green investments can also support advancements in cleantech, allowing insurers to have a far-reaching impact on climate. Co-operators puts more than 21% of their invested assets, more than $2.6 billion, into impact investments that aim to solve pressing environmental and social challenges.

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ING’s SDG Fund Champions “Impactful” Investment

Chris Hall

ING Asset Management’s new SDG Impact Strategy will provide clients with exposure to companies that contribute specifically to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), responding to strong demand for ‘dark greeninvestments. The funds downgraded in Q4 2022 were worth a combined €171.1

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Global ESG assets drop 14% as industry tightens grip on sustainability claims

Corporate Knights

As the COP28 meeting begins and the world looks to the financial sector to step up on the climate crisis, the global sustainable investment industry is finally coming to grips with allegations of greenwashing that have plagued it for years. Under the new definitions in 2022, those assets are 14% lower at US$30.3 between 2020 and 2022.

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UK Fails to Reassure Investors on Net Zero Commitment

Chris Hall

This is the view of experts speaking to ESG Investor in response to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s 2023 Autumn Statement on 22 November, which many investors had hoped would increase certainty around the government’s climate policy ambitions following months of u-turns and rollbacks.

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China’s ESG Policy Dash  

Chris Hall

Improving transparency and disclosure Kathlyn Collins, Head of Responsible Investment and Stewardship at asset manager Matthews Asia, says there has been a substantial number of environmental policies introduced in China over the past few years. ChinaSIF estimates that the size of China’s ESG market in 2022 was RMB 24.6

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