Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

While many charities rely on negatively screening ‘sin stocks’ (tobacco, alcohol, armaments, gambling and pornography), the site aims to equip them to ask the right questions to assess how an asset managers approach aligns with their priorities and mission.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 11, 2023

The rules were issued for consultation in January 2022, with the aim to enhance the transparency of disclosures on sustainability-related products, improve product comparability, and guard against greenwashing. .

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 26, 2022

They are open to public comment until 2 February, 2022. The rules also set out the strategies SRI funds may adopt to achieve their investment objectives relating to sustainability or ESG, such as negative screening, impact investing and other ESG strategies practised nationally or globally.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

In February 2022, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) said it would start working on a legal definition of greenwashing to underpin enforcement action, as part of the regulator’s sustainable finance roadmap.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In the 2022 report, it was followed by board issues (US$2.87 There were also more climate change-related shareholder proposals (265) filed by investors in the two years to mid-2022, compared with the previous period, said the US SIF Foundation. trillion in assets, having been the most important issue for the previous decade.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Energy think tank Ember revealed that global growth in electricity demand (389 TWh) was met entirely by renewable sources in H1 2022. From black to red – There were mixed signals on the pace of the renewable energy transition this week.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 3, 2023

In the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2022, flows into the European sustainable fund universe rebounded after a three-consecutive-quarter decline and stood at almost US$40 billion, the report said. Passive funds make perfect sense for investors that want to screen out unethical stocks.

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Based on inputs from 122 asset managers globally, Redington’s Sustainable Investment Survey 2022, found that 43% of managers could not provide an example of a sell decision driven by an ESG view, compared with 39% in the 2021 report. Further, 35% could not evidence an ESG-motivated buy decision, up from 26% last year.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 13, 2023

The report said financial services businesses require specialist software to track data and estimate Scope 3 carbon emissions stemming from their portfolio firms, with the 2022 Task Force on Climate-Related Disclosures status report finding 43% of financial institutions rating Scope 3 GHG emissions as a ‘very difficult’ recommended disclosure.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 10, 2024

It was a different story in 2022. It didn’t help that tech companies in general have had a rough time since 2022, and now higher interest rates are negatively affecting utilities with high up-front capital costs for large green energy projects. We saw the benefits in 2023 with huge growth in green jobs in the U.S.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

For the first time, global investment in renewables rose above $1 trillion in 2022. The Clean200 uses negative screens. While we’ve made great progress since 2016, we need to go further faster. To be eligible, a company must earn more than 10% of total revenues from clean sources.

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