ESG Today

JANUARY 28, 2025

Sustainability-focused direct lending startup Colesco Capital announced that it has raised over 800 million (USD$839 million) at its first platform close, with proceeds aimed at investing in companies providing solutions to environmental and societal challenges.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 20, 2023

Of the 6,720 companies the Corporate Knights team analyzed for our 2023 Global 100 ranking of the world’s most sustainable corporations, a select few stand out. Here are a handful leading the pack on six key indicators. It pumped €8.6

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The AMF’s proposals aim to add more stringent requirements for providers of Article 8 and Article 9 funds under the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), which came into effect in January 2023. The EU SFDR forms part of the EU’s Action Plan on financing sustainable growth.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 2, 2024

million) penalty for making false claims about some of its sustainable investment options. The Federal Court in Australia issued a judgement Friday, ordering Marsh McLennan company Mercer Superannuation to pay an A$11.3 million ($USD7.4 Mercer has admitted to the allegations in the case.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 24, 2023

Between January 1, 2019, and March 22, 2023, the value of the top quintile of the SEI grew 146%, compared to 47% for the MSCI ACWI. Now is the time to identify and stake out positions in the companies that are investing in a low-carbon sustainable future,” says Heaps.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 15, 2024

Investment management firm Fidelity International announced today a new focused sustainable investment approach, targeting four systemic themes, including nature loss, climate change, strong and effective governance, and social disparities, which will drive the firm’s engagement approach towards influencing positive change.

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Environmental Finance

JUNE 28, 2023

The winners of Environmental Finance's annual Sustainable Investment Awards for 2023 have been announced.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Vitasoy has been named best in class both on sustainable revenue and sustainable investments in the 2023 Corporate Knights Global 100. We want to grow faster than the market growth rate, but [to] do so sustainably.” Find out which company we named Zero of our 2023 winter issue. Annual revenues doubled to 7.52

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 28, 2023

And that company has risen to the top of Corporate Knights’ 2023 ranking of Canada’s Best 50 Corporate Citizens. s Alterra Power Corporation in 2018 and Chile’s Energía Llaima in 2023, Innergex is now the largest independent renewable-energy company in both Canada and Chile, with expansion plans in the U.S. Having acquired B.C.’s

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The acquisition follows the launch by Apollo last year of Apollo Clean Transition Capital (ACT Capital), an investment strategy with $4 billion in capital, aimed at investing in companies to provide capital for their transition to clean energy and sustainable industry.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2023

December 20, 2023 /3BL/ - From a field of 99 submitted papers, Biodiversity Risk was selected as the winner of the 2023 Moskowitz Prize at Northwestern University. Judging for the Moskowitz Prize is completed by a panel of some of the world’s most accomplished sustainable finance researchers and practitioners.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 24, 2023

Between January 1, 2019, and March 22, 2023, the value of the top quintile of the SEI grew 146%, compared to 47% for the MSCI ACWI. Now is the time to identify and stake out positions in the companies that are investing in a low-carbon sustainable future,” says Heaps.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 13, 2025

Taxonomy-aligned capital expenditures (capex) from large listed European companies grew 34% in 2023, reaching 250 billion (US$271 billion) by year end, according to a new report from the Platform on Sustainable Finance (PSF). Outstanding green loans stood at 908 billion in 2023 while green bond volumes reached 781 billion.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

In a lawsuit launched last year by Australia’s corporate, markets, and financial services regulator, the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC), however, ASIC alleged that ESG research was not conducted over a significant proportion of the bond issuers in the fund, exposing investors to investments with ties to fossil fuels, including (..)

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ESG Today

JANUARY 28, 2025

The FCAs SDR requirements were introduced by the regulator in November 2023 , aimed at helping investors assess the sustainability attributes of investment products, and to avoid greenwashing risk, to portfolio managers. billion sustainable investment mandate by UK wealth manager St.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 21, 2024

and Europe between 2026 and 2023. Rising interest rates and supply chain problems in the post-pandemic period have eroded values of clean energy stocks and funds. The Morningstar category of alternative energy equity funds posted an average annual return of -11% in 2022 and -10.5% on May 21.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The EU Taxonomy is part of the EU Action Plan on Sustainable Finance, establishing a classification system enabling the categorization of economic activities that play key roles in contributing to at least one of six defined environmental objectives, and that Do No Significant Harm (DNSH) to the other objectives.in

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Originally published in Black & Veatch's 2023 Sustainability Report By Deepa Poduva l, SVP Global Sustainability Leader, Black & Veatch In today’s world, sustainability has evolved from a corporate responsibility to a critical ethical and business imperative.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Our Sustainable Economy Intelligence database tracks how much companies are funnelling into green capital expenditures (sustainable investment) and the percentage of revenues they earn from planet-friendly products and services (sustainable revenue). So which of the legacy automakers is pulling ahead of the pack?

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ESG Today

APRIL 13, 2023

The regulation includes classification levels for sustainability-focused investment funds, including ‘Article 8’ funds that “promote environmental or social characteristics or a combination of those characteristics,” and the more stringent ‘Article 9’ funds, “which have sustainable investment as their objective.”

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 14, 2025

Driven by irrefutable and irreversible economic logic that has and will continue to withstand political backsliding and resistance from entrenched incumbents, sustainable revenue and sustainable investment are outpacing average growth rates. Companies with sustainability data for 2019 forward included in the charts had USD $26.7

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 2, 2023

And it is just the beginning,” said Guterres, on the same day that scientists announced that July 2023 was tracking to be the hottest month ever recorded in human history. “It FinanceMap’s 2023 report analyzed $16.5 nor European funds are matching their rhetoric of sustainable finance policies with real action. It is terrifying.

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Environmental Finance

MARCH 6, 2023

Entries to Environmental Finance's annual Sustainable Investment Awards are open until 14 April 2023.

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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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Environmental Finance

APRIL 11, 2023

Entries to Environmental Finance 's annual Sustainable Investment Awards are open until 14 April 2023, which means this week is the last chance to apply.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

GRI was pleased to host its own event, Aligning Private Sector Disclosures with the Sustainable Development Agenda- Launch of Carrots & Sticks Report , during the UN General Assembly and Climate Week NYC. GRI North America’s Head of Engagement and Public Affairs, Matthew Rusk, spoke at Nasdaq Annual NY Climate Week conference 2023.

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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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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Graham’s speech also included dubious statements about divestment and the pace of transition away from fossil fuels, claiming that the “global investment community has also changed its tune when it comes to fossil fuel divestment.”

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Long joins CSAM after more than 16 years at financial publishing and information group Citywire, where she most recently served as Head of ESG and Cross-border Investment Research. She will start her new role at Credit Suisse in January 2023, and report to CSAM’s Global Head of Sustainable Investing, Jeroen Boes.

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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

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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Corporate Knights

JUNE 27, 2023

Alyson Slater, head of sustainable investments, Manulife “They didn’t want it done in a fluffy way,” Todd says of her Vancity employers. When I started, I had to explain to companies why they should care about ESG. Now they see reporting as the tail that wags the dog.

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ESG Today

MAY 18, 2023

For the report, the 2023 Gen Z and Millennial Survey, Deloitte surveyed nearly 23,000 Gen Z (born 1995 – 2004) and Millennial (born 1983 – 1994) respondents across 44 countries, in addition to conducting qualitative interviews, with topics ranging from financial concerns, work/life balance, mental health and climate action.

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3BL Media

MARCH 14, 2024

to push for ambitious federal climate policy at LEAD on a Clean Economy 2024 , we at Ceres also took time to reflect on the last year by honoring the business leaders, policymakers, and organizations that took extraordinary action in 2023 to build an advanced, abundant, and just clean energy economy.

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3BL Media

MAY 22, 2024

In 2023, for the first time, equity assets managed by passive funds overtook actively managed assets, according to Morningstar data. The trend hasn’t been as acute for sustainable portfolios. Yet passive sustainable equity funds globally attracted $52.6 billion of inflows in 2023, while active sustainable funds bled nearly $16.7

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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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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

More and more enterprises are rapidly adopting sustainable finance, with a demonstrated 10% growth in global markets reported in 2023. In a study by Deloitte, 90% of respondents indicated that sustainable finance is already central to almost everything they do, or it is becoming integral to much of what they do.

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