Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

Skip to ranking BY Shawn McCarthy January 17, 2024 As 2023 came to a close, the World Meteorological Organization declared it to be the hottest year on record. The company redoubled its efforts to sell its last non-renewable assets and finally sold its gas-fired power plant to Achernar Assets in June 2023. CLIMATE COMMITMENTS 1.5˚C

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

At a forum on sustainable finance in Ottawa this week, a parade of speakers, including Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, warned that Canada is falling behind global competitors in the race to attract the investment needed to fuel the transition to a net-zero economy. Canada is playing catch-up,” he acknowledged. “We

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The UK’s net zero economy grew 9% in 2023 according to a new report commissioned by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), with analysis provided by CBI Economics and The Data City. 1 The total gross value added (GVA) by businesses involved in the net zero economy now stands at £74 billion.

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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). A total of 40% of survey respondents had committed to net zero emissions, compared with none the previous year. Barriers to investment.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

VCM has helped fund and facilitate significant green investment initiatives. Nevertheless, an emerging topic in the global conversation on climate change and transition in 2023 has been how to effectively scale the VCM and strengthen its transparency and credibility.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Japan has committed to reach net zero emissions by 2050, with an interim 2030 goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 46% by 2030. In 2021, the government unveiled plans to roughly double the share of renewable energy to 36%-38% of the energy mix by 2030, from less than 20%.

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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. Whoever wins July’s general election will need to prioritise climate ambition and provide clear policy signals for investors.

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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

JULY 7, 2023

More details promised on sector-specific net zero roadmaps to stimulate investment in sustainable infrastructure. The UK government has acknowledged the need for greater policy clarity to enable the flow of investment into key sectors to deliver sustainable infrastructure and transition to net zero.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 8, 2023

times more equity value in fossil fuel production companies (US$880 billion) than in green investments (US$309 billion). times higher exposure to green investments than the average asset manager, the report noted, adding that Goldman Sachs and State Street are the most exposed to the fossil fuel production value chain, at 2.2

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In Europe, there is a thriving sustainable investment community that recognises the urgent need to help the solar industry innovate, grow and deliver the promise of PV technology to more people across the continent and beyond. EU regulation goes hand in hand with a decade-long trend of increased focus on green investment in the EU.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

But by the end of 2023, the climate issue will loom again for investor CEOs and CIOs, pushing up on board agendas previously crammed with Covid-19, Ukraine and macro-economic debates. This will take time and now time has run out for the new clean lobbying to have the necessary impact to save global net zero without an overshoot past 1.5 ° C.

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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. billion) green investment pledge. Regulators are already pushing back against the risk of greenwashing with a range of fund disclosure , naming and labelling rules.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 19, 2023

According to Morningstar’s SFDR Article 8 and Article 9 Funds Q3 2023 Review , Article 8 and 9 fund assets are worth more than €5 trillion (US$5.8 trillion) with Article 8 accounting for 53% of the market.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 29, 2023

Joined-up climate polic ies seen as vital to catalyse a “generational shift ” towards climate investments, t echnologies and solutions this decade.

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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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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. . At least US$1 trillion of this needs to be annually invested in EMDEs. The finance sector .

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Dutch pension fund PME defended divestment as an effective investor response to the slow pace of decarbonisation in the energy sector at Morningstar’s Sustainable Investing Summit 2023. Speaking at the event, Daan Spaargaren, Senior Responsible Investment Strategist at PME, said although divestment is a blunt tool, the pension fund has witnessed (..)

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 25, 2022

Achieving net zero by 2050 could require the climate bond universe to reach US$36 trillion by 2025 and over US$60 trillion by 2030, it added. The ESG-labelled bond markets are typically considered to include green, social, sustainability, sustainability-linked and transition bonds. trillion per year. “By

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The UK government has “comprehensively failed” to set out a robust green industrial strategy to compete with other countries leading the way in the transition to net zero.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 11, 2023

Carbon pricing has long been thought of as one of the most effective ways to migrate economies away from fossil fuel dependence to achieve net zero and limit global warming to 1.5°C. A more simplified CBAM, which will only apply the reporting obligations in an effort to begin collating data, will begin operating from October 2023.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 18, 2023

This legacy no doubt contributed to her 2021 appointment as the inaugural chair of Canada’s Sustainable Finance Action Council, as well as Corporate Knights' 2023 Lifetime Award of Distinction. Looking back, Bardswick realizes that it was extremely fortuitous – or perhaps astute on the part of her mother – that she landed in a co-operative.

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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.

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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.

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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. Since then over 500 companies have signed on, committing to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2040. C global warming target.

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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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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 3, 2023

The year started optimistically, fresh off the bold and ambitious agreement in November 2021 that established the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ). Index fund managers slow-walked on net-zero. More than US$8 trillion removed from sustainable investment tally. Canadian and U.S.

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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. An assessment of H1 2023 activity by the Climate Bonds Initiative reported that GSS+ bonds reached US$4.2

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 24, 2023

Despite causing short-term supply issues, the IRA is set to have far-reaching implications for net zero transition strategies, domestically and globally. Further, from 2023, at least 40% of the raw minerals used in EV batteries must be sourced from North America, climbing to 80% from 2026.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 2, 2025

Aconsequence of this pushback came on New Years Eve, when global financial behemoths Bank of America and Citigroup left the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, one of the investment industry climate coalitions championed by the United Nations. US SIF reported that sustainable assets under management at the end of 2023 were US$6.5

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