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New report shows $200-billion drop in responsible investing market share in Canada

Corporate Knights

In Europe, regulators have gone even further, establishing the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation , which comes into force on January 1, 2023, requiring funds to categorize themselves as light green (Article 8), dark green (Article 9) or conventional funds (Article 6), based on the degree to which investments support sustainability.?

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Sustainability trends 2023

Carlos Sanchez

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. The good news is that every recession eventually creates new opportunities, so continue reading about 2023 sustainability trends. Sustainability trends 2023: Mandatory reporting.

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“Massive Move” to Impact Investing Underway – BNP Paribas 

Chris Hall

Impact investing is set to overtake ESG integration as the most popular strategy for investors to achieve sustainability, according to the BNP Paribas’ ‘ESG Global Survey 2023’. According to the Impact Investing Global Market Report 2023 the market grew from US$420.91 billion in 2023, with a compound annual growth rate of 17.8%

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Clean 200 list shows sustainable companies on path to dominate global economy

Corporate Knights

trillion in sustainable revenue in 2023 (the most recent year for which full-year results are available). The Clean200 uses negative screens. Thirty-five countries are represented in the Clean200, including the United States (41), China (21), Japan (18), Germany (14), and France and Canada (11 each).

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A Business Guide to Sustainable Finance

3BL Media

More and more enterprises are rapidly adopting sustainable finance, with a demonstrated 10% growth in global markets reported in 2023. Negative screening This is the process of excluding certain sectors, companies, or practices from a portfolio based on specific ESG criteria.

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Sustainable investments had secretly great year

Corporate Knights

Despite record oil-company profits and a surge in military share prices stemming from instability in the Middle East, most sustainable investments have quietly outperformed in 2023. We saw the benefits in 2023 with huge growth in green jobs in the U.S. 19% 95% 2023-08-31 iShares ESG MSCI EAFE Leaders Index ETF (XDLR) 94.9%

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These 200 companies are leading the clean economy in 2023

Corporate Knights

If an investor had put $10,000 into the Clean200 in July 2016, that investment would have grown to $19,121 by the end of January 2023. “The Clean200 has demonstrated consistently that what we called the ‘clean energy’ future seven years ago is now the clean energy present,” says Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow. On average, 58.3%

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