3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

While investors and companies are already setting net zero targets, laying out transition plans, and engaging with governments, more needs to be done to reduce methane emissions and reverse nature loss and water degradation across key sectors. the world is not on track to meet its climate goals.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

November 15, 2023 /3BL/ - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), the largest public pension fund in the U.S. and longtime Ceres Investor Network member, announced a bold investment of $100 billion in climate solutions by 2030 to support its overall goal of achieving a net zero emissions portfolio by 2050.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This has included legislating a 2050 net zero target and setting a legally-binding target to reduce emissions by 43% by 2030 below 2005 levels. Investment in adaptation offers significant opportunities that are yet to be comprehensively tapped,” said Rena Pulido, Head of Sustainable Investment Australia at IFM Investors, a A$221.7

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

According to the spokesperson, Long will lead CSAM’s new Sustainability Research team, dedicated to security-, thematic-, and sector-level sustainability research, and focused on supporting the ESG integration process at CSAM.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 27, 2023

We are one piece of a big puzzle,” she says, estimating that two-thirds of the investment required to achieve net-zero by 2050 will come from the private sector. Alyson Slater, head of sustainable investments, Manulife “They didn’t want it done in a fluffy way,” Todd says of her Vancity employers.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Alongside the new climate-related disclosure requirements, the government also introduced plans for a new sustainable investment taxonomy to help categorize green and transition economic activities. In its November 2023 Fall Economic Statement, the government announced a further commitment to expand mandatory climate disclosures.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Companies that wait to transition until there is a stronger policy response will face higher costs and a shorter window to achieve net zero commitments. Climate policy response by governments and investment in clean technologies must be accelerated to keep temperature rise near 1.5°C,

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 20, 2023

LGPS Central has stressed that its new Net Zero Strategy for long-term emissions reductions will not be derailed by the UK government’s recent watering down of climate policy. C. “There would be peaks and troughs both in the emissions charts but also in terms of policy support and political will,” he added.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

He shared the stage with Teine Energy and Wolf Midstream, two Alberta-based fossil fuel companies owned by CPPIB – neither of which have committed to net-zero emissions. CPPIB’s reluctance to acknowledge the need to phase out fossil fuels might also be influenced by the oil and gas interests prominently represented on its board.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Natron's cutting-edge sodium-ion batteries presented an ideal opportunity to both potentially expand our sustainability investment portfolio to our ground operations, and to help make our airport operations more resilient. Learn more about their sustainability investments here: [link].

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ESG Today

JULY 5, 2023

For the study, the “2023 Fidelity International ESG Analyst Survey,” Fidelity surveyed 123 of its in-house analyst from across the firm’s Equities, Fixed Income, Private Credit, and Sustainable Investing teams, aggregating bottom-up information from approximately 15,000 company interactions.

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ESG Today

JULY 10, 2024

By: Priyanka Bawa , Senior Analyst in the Verdantix ESG & Sustainability practice Despite more net zero targets being set than ever before, and more science-based targets being used to back them, 2022 research from South Pole shows that one in four businesses do not intend to talk about their science-aligned climate targets.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 16, 2023

Weak economic activity, high interest rates and myriad geopolitical pressures present significant headwinds for private equity, weighing down valuations and slowing investment at a time when the private capital is vital to accelerating the net zero transition.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 25, 2024

High-emitting companies have been urged to set ambitious short-term decarbonisation targets which support their long-term net zero goals, following a dip in the number doing so.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 7, 2022

JetBlue announced a new commitment to reduce lifecycle emissions related to jet fuel by 50% per revenue tonne kilometer (RTK) by 2035, and provided a detailed outline of its plan to achieve net zero emissions by 2040, with a significant focus on low carbon solutions.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 17, 2024

Emphasizing the impact of a company’s core products and services, the Global 100 is one of the world’s most valued and transparent sustainability ratings. To determine its rankings, over 6,000 companies were assessed across 25 key performance indicators including sustainable investment, carbon productivity and racial and gender diversity.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 13, 2024

Chris Skidmore, former MP and author of the net zero review, talks about what the next UK government should do to get the country’s net zero commitments back on track. “I cannot vote for the [Offshore Petroleum Licensing] bill next week. In May, a High Court ruling ordered it publish a revised net zero strategy.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its much-anticipated consultation outlining measures to tackle greenwashing, including the introduction of three categories for sustainable investments. The consultation is open until 25 January, 2023, with the FCA aiming to finalise its proposals by mid-2023.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In 2022, Whirlpool Corporation continued to invest in its environmental sustainability strategy to reduce its climate impact and progress toward its Net Zero emissions target in global plants and operations by 2030. plant operations. View original content here.

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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. As such, they decided to take the government back to court in February this year.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

trillion in 2023, spanning across corporates as well as sovereigns and supranationals. Although there are various tranches and instruments, research from RBC BlueBay Asset Management notes it can be easier to engage with investment-grade issuers than their high-yield counterparts.

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Sustainability Matters

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Ingka Investments is the investment arm of Ingka Group, the largest owner and operator of IKEA Retail. This latest investment continues the company’s partnership with TagEnergy, after Ingka Investments secured a 15% stake in Stage 1 of the wind farm in 2023 — its first major utility-scale renewable energy investment in Australia.

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Chris Hall

MAY 24, 2024

David Byrns, Portfolio Manager at American Century, explains why transition investing is fundamental to achieving net zero. While global sustainable investments reached US$30.3 Best-in-progress approach American Century launched a new strategy called Global Sustainable Value in November 2023.

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ESG Today

JUNE 20, 2024

H&M also announced an investment in Rondo Energy through its venture arm, H&M Group Ventures, and that it is joining Rondo’s Strategic Investor Advisory Board (SIAB). H&M Group has set a goal to achieve net zero emissions by 2040, with interim targets to reduce absolute Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions by 56% by 2030.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Targeted at €300 million, and with €140 million already committed, the fund will be managed by Natixis Investment Managers’ sustainable investing affiliate Mirova. A Net Zero and nature-positive economy requires huge amounts of capital and the ambitious contribution of corporates is essential to achieve this transition.”.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Asset owners are increasing allocations into strategies that integrate ESG factors, despite reporting growing regulatory and data quality barriers to ESG implementation, according to a new survey released by investment research firm Morningstar. Click here to access the report.

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3BL Media

JULY 7, 2023

July 7, 2023 /3BL/ - Lab grown diamonds, certified under the SCS-007 sustainability standard, not only provide a sustainable and environmentally friendly alternative, but also help reduce human rights abuses and concerns in diamond mining. EMERYVILLE, Calif.,

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Chris Hall

APRIL 23, 2024

Policies, regulations and wider laws are among the many elements that set the path and guide them on their journey to net zero. Its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reached 467 million tonnes in the year running up to June 2023 – four million tonnes above 2022 figures. trillion) in assets.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 8, 2023

These included not one but two emerging markets capacity-building initiatives, a net zero export credit agencies alliance; and a taskforce on risk mitigation and credit enhancement.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 23, 2023

ESG and sustainability are emerging as key drivers of growing institutional investor allocations to real asset investments, and nearly all investors now consider ESG factors in their real asset investment decisions, according to a new study released by Aviva Investors. trillion, in a survey conducted by CoreData Research.

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Chris Hall

JULY 6, 2023

There is a growing divide between private market investors adopting sustainable investing strategies and those choosing to distance themselves from sustainability-related themes and considerations due to the anti-ESG movement.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

million car sales in 2023. As such, we are increasingly looking beyond EV manufacturers and infrastructure providers for opportunities to use our influence with investee firms that have large fleets, specifically where these represent a material part of their transition to net zero.”

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Chris Hall

APRIL 3, 2024

Asset owners committed to net zero have outlined heightened expectations around asset manager assistance on climate-related voting and engagement. In 2023, the company conducted an internal synthetic exercise to understand how its principles would apply to meetings of 100 focus group companies.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 31, 2023

The protocol outlines how the 84 alliance members, with a collective US$11 trillion in assets, can align their sub-portfolio decarbonisation targets with net zero. Bolli was co-lead author of the protocol report, alongside Udo Riese, Global Head of Sustainable Investing at Allianz Investment Management.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Earlier in the meeting, Neelam Chhiber, Co-Founding and Managing Trustee at India-based Industree Foundation, said estimates suggested that the capital required to meet net zero by 2050 would total US$150 trillion, with at least two-thirds of having to be allocated outside of North America and Europe. “Our actions cannot be localised,” he said.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

If not, members may be faced with a decision to exit the majority of the investable universe, which exposes them to other [investment] risks.” In September 2023 , the NZAOA published research highlighting that aligning with a 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2024

The firm’s meteoric rise stems from its strong positioning to profit from the explosion of investment in AI, which is rapidly expanding beyond the IT sector to early adopters in fields such as finance and healthcare, and predicted use cases elsewhere. But does Nvidia deserve a place in a sustainable investment portfolio?

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