ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The new investment follows BMW’s announcement in 2021 to expand company efforts to combat climate change, including goals to significantly reduce vehicle emissions throughout the lifecycle, reduce CO2 emissions by 40% per vehicle by 2030, and make a minimum of 50% of its global sales from battery electric vehicles by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Lord Deben, Chair of the Climate Change Committee 2012-2023, gave a keynote address where he highlighted how Scotland’s renewable energy industry is playing a major role in helping the UK reach it’s net-zero targets. A performer at the event.

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Chris Hall

MAY 31, 2024

With the UK High Court having now dubbed the government’s net zero strategy unlawful for the second time, the country is now considered a climate laggard, leaving sustainability-conscious investors rudderless. The 2023 iteration of the government’s net zero strategy actually displayed reduced ambition in certain sectors, Mercer claimed.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 29, 2021

Clearly the green finance revolution has taken the world by storm, with investment in low-carbon energy remaining robust throughout the pandemic. So whilst the green finance revolution is well and truly underway, it risks leaving out emerging markets, including some of the world’s most vulnerable nations to climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 19, 2024

Minister for Investment and Regulatory Reform, Lord Dominic Johnson said:“The Government is making sure the UK continues to be an attractive choice for green investment, creating jobs and opportunities across the country as we transition to net zero.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This money is flowing into private equity and greener investments in the region, particularly renewable energy. We’re seeing an increase in green investments from financial institutions, project development companies, utilities, manufacturing, tech sectors, and more. It has boosted the market of climate change in the region.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

With ESMA flagging a tripling in the size of the SDG fund market between 2020 and 2023, impact-washing is also in their sights. This first sustainable hybrid capital issuance by an MDB is an example of innovative efforts to finance developing economies’ efforts to handle the impacts of climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Leading meteorologists forecast earlier this year that by as soon as 2027, this key temperature representing an upper limit on warming to mitigate the worst excesses of climate change, would be hit for the first time. alive’ but seizing this opportunity is a herculean task that will require combined effort and moreover, investment.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In response, PME has divested from fossil fuel investments and redirected the funds towards the energy transition by focusing on solar and wind projects. Instead of solely excluding certain industries, he explained, this new investment approach aims to create a more inclusive strategy that screens companies based on ESG criteria.

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Chris Hall

JULY 7, 2023

In our Green Finance Strategy, we set out the vital role the financial sector will play in channelling investment into the real economy to support the transition,” said Penn. Last week, the UK’s Climate Change Committee recently described government efforts to scale up climate action as “worryingly slow”.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 29, 2023

In a statement released last week, the Church Commissioners said it will only remain invested in an oil and gas firm if it can demonstrate genuine alignment with a 1.5°C In 2021, rebounding fossil fuel prices had already lifted fossil fuel consumption subsidies to US$532 billion, roughly 20% above 2019’s pre-pandemic levels.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Portfolio-wide commitments to net zero emissions have surged among Asian investors, according to a new study from The Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC). While several climate risk reporting frameworks exist, the one that most policymakers have endorsed is the TCFD,” said the report. Barriers to investment.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The fine print, including who is going to pay into the fund and how much, will be published at COP28 in Dubai, with a transitional committee planning to meet before the end of March 2023. . Policymakers and investors are putting more focus on nature and its importance to help reduce carbon emissions.” . The finance sector .

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

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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Corporate Knights

JULY 18, 2023

As she made her way up the ranks in The Co-operators Group – a network of companies offering life, property and casualty insurance, as well as an investment management division, Addenda Capital – she grasped the changing relevance and mission of the insurance industry in an era of climate change.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 9, 2024

By properly tallying up climate investments, starting with the federal government and large corporations, Climate Dollars aims to establish an accurate baseline of where we are at now versus what is required to ensure that Canada meets its 2030 emission-reduction commitments. What was promised? What has been delivered?”

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 9, 2024

By properly tallying up climate investments, starting with the federal government and large corporations, Climate Dollars aims to establish an accurate baseline of where we are at now versus what is required to ensure that Canada meets its 2030 emission-reduction commitments. What was promised? What has been delivered?”

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We Mean Business Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This article was first published in Forbes Today 100 CEOs announced a push for governments to boost the business case for green investment, in the run-up to COP29 in Azerbaijan. The period from February 2023 to January 2024 reached 1.52C of warming, according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2023

Currently, there is no clear definition of what constitutes a “green” investment, which has led to a proliferation of green bonds that are not truly environmentally friendly.” It is going to establish an office in Beijing in mid 2023,” says Peiyuan. The post China’s ESG Policy Dash appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 18, 2023

This week, green and blue debt were in focus around the world, while the US courted further climate controversy. New peaks – Green bonds and other sustainability-related instruments demonstrated their resilience this week. The act also kickstarted an era of green investment competition.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This article was first published in Forbes The election of President Trump and the establishment of an administration closely tied to the fossil fuel industry is, without doubt, a major setback for global efforts to combat climate change. Climate change is no longer a distant threat; it is a current reality.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 29, 2025

For example, recent research from the Institute of Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEFFA) found that in 2023 alone, EU companies invested 249 billion (US$259 billion) in EU taxonomy-aligned activities. Most of the time, theyve already funded the same or similar projects that way in the past.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 2, 2025

But large managers like the Big Three have substantial accounts with Democratic-led states and European clients that are under their own stakeholder and regulatory pressure to meet climate and ESG targets. US SIF reported that sustainable assets under management at the end of 2023 were US$6.5

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The post Trump and the Business of Climate Change appeared first on ESG Investor. On a per-company basis, the average totals US$3.1

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Companies are under pressure from their customers and investors to deal with climate change. There is no denying that another Trump presidency will stall national efforts to tackle the climate crisis and protect the environment, but most U.S. There are also expectations for change on how the U.S.

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 9, 2023

The green investments about which BP brags represent only a minor portion of its current energy production and investment behavior. The rest continues to be targeted for its big profit oil and gas holdings.

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