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OCTOBER 12, 2023

The inflows into these transition funds over the first half of 2023 drove climate fund assets to a new record of US$31.7 billion at the end of June. Rocher added that these companies face a “unique set of challenges” compared to their larger counterparts.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Natural capital provides the building blocks that enable ecosystem services—the positive benefits that societies and economies derive from nature—to sustain life and create wealth. She is a global member of 100 Women in Finance and a financial literacy volunteer with the High Water Women Foundation.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

International shipping accounted for 2% of global energy-related CO2 emissions last year, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). On 7 July, at the 80 th Meeting of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 80), IMO member states endorsed the regulator’s ‘ 2023 IMO Strategy on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships ’.

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DECEMBER 11, 2022

Participating investors will focus on mobilizing companies deemed to be systemically important to the goal of reversing nature and biodiversity loss by 2030; the initiative is encouraging investor signatories to participate ahead of its spring 2023 launch. Mindy Lubber, CEO and President, Ceres, said: “The global economy depends on nature.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Financial organisations thus have a major role to play in the decarbonisation of the global economy, yet it is estimated that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, the 60 largest banks have instead invested $5.5 Clearly much more needs to be done to pivot towards more sustainable investment and lending practices.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

In Europe, the Green Taxonomy and Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation have set standards for what counts as sustainable investing, which include private equity. As of September 2023, EDCI already comprises more than 350 members, who together account for over US$28 trillion in assets under management.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including MSCI, Tumelo, DSD Lab, Exabel, YoujiVest, R3 and Hope for Justice. .

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

Both were speaking at a panel session on putting net zero commitments into practice on the second day of the event, hosted by the UN-convened Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) this week in Toronto, Canada.

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JULY 6, 2022

It is through good stewardship that corporate engagement can drive high carbon emitting companies to develop and implement a net zero transition plan, which will ultimately help to decarbonise the global economy,” says Stephanie Pfeifer, CEO at the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). .

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JULY 27, 2023

This post is a transcript of WHC President Margaret O’Gorman’s 2023 State of Corporate Conservation speech, presented in Baltimore at the 2023 WHC Conservation Conference on June 20, 2023. That loss would be a massive hit to the global economy. I have to clarify that the U.S.

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

capital markets and corporate sectors for what promises to be a titanic battle in 2023. There are challenges being mounted to investment managers openly embracing ESG / sustainability investment principles. This is just the introduction of G&A's Sustainability Highlights newsletter this week. In the U.S.,

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APRIL 21, 2023

In its latest synthesis report , the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a “final warning”, calling for swift and decisive action to keep global average temperature rise to <1.5°C Averting this cataclysm requires the reduction of global anthropogenic greenhouse (GHG) emissions to net zero by 2050.

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