Chris Hall

AUGUST 8, 2023

times more equity value in fossil fuel production companies (US$880 billion) than in green investments (US$309 billion). Green investments were calculated according to the criteria of the EU taxonomy. trillion of the assessed asset managers’ equity fund portfolios, the report found that managers hold 2.8

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Chris Hall

MAY 31, 2024

Back then, the government was tasked with reworking its strategy within eight months. The CBDP was subsequently unveiled in March 2023 – but the three challengers still did not think the strategy met minimum legal standards. As such, they decided to take the government back to court in February this year. trillion (US$1.89

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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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We Mean Business Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

The EU Green Taxonomy is one of the cornerstones of the EU Action Plan on financing sustainable growth and is also the foundation of many other pieces of legislation currently being implemented. The CSRD has already been adopted and will kick in from reporting year 2024.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will closely monitor funds’ use of incoming green investment labels, potentially stopping asset managers from using them in the event of misuse. . Smaller FCA-regulated firms are expected to have to do the same from early 2023. . International, not isolated .

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Pension fund makes case for divestment, against backdrop of increasingly positive climate policy across major markets.

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Chris Hall

JULY 7, 2023

However, she noted that the success of such plans will be determined by the levels of investment the government must mobilise, noting that the international environment for green investment is becoming “more competitive”, as other countries begin to put their transition plans into action. US President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act – which (..)

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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. In the 2024 Global 100 ranking, the top-ranked firms allocated 55% of their investments to sustainable projects, up from 47% the year prior.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2024

This turnabout has been most pronounced in the green bond market, where power utilities have, controversially, been adding nuclear energy as an option for green bonds. Is the nuclear industry using a smokescreen of net-zero to cover up its sustainability problems?

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 1, 2023

A European green taxonomy The European Union has produced a green taxonomy that mostly excludes fossil fuel projects from the sustainability label, though it controversially includes some natural gas uses and nuclear as “sustainable” investments.

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Canada is lagging in its efforts to drive private capital into sustainable investments to finance solutions on climate change and other environmental challenges. We are interested in sustainability not because we are environmentalists, but because we are capitalists and fiduciaries to our clients.” Who said that?

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2023

These regulatory moves are necessary for China to compete on the international stage on ESG, according to Dr Guo Peiyuan, Chairman of SynTao Green Finance, the founding organisation of China Sustainable Investment Forum (ChinaSIF). It is going to establish an office in Beijing in mid 2023,” says Peiyuan.

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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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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 3, 2023

This surrender was part of a wider pullback, as banks, investment funds and asset owners axed billions of dollars from sustainable investment funds and reined in marketing excesses. More than US$8 trillion removed from sustainable investment tally. sustainable investment, to US$8.4 green investment.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 24, 2023

“It’s an unparalleled and historic piece of climate legislation that’s likely to be a significant catalyst for driving investment into the country’s [net zero] transition for years to come,” says Nikita Singhal, Co-Head of Sustainable Investment and ESG at Lazard Asset Management.

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