3BL Media

AUGUST 1, 2024

We are seeing institutional investors around the world become more interested in sustainable investment products —and we’re responding. As a global asset manager, we have focused on converting and launching new funds that comply with greater expectations of sustainability.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In this weeks CK Drill Down, we focus on a subset of our sustainable investment database consisting of 800 large companies that we have been tracking since 2018, including 175 from the U.S.A, In 2023 the European companies invested over 3.5 Click here for more on how we define sustainability.

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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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3BL Media

DECEMBER 22, 2022

capital markets and corporate sectors for what promises to be a titanic battle in 2023. There are challenges being mounted to investment managers openly embracing ESG / sustainability investment principles. This is just the introduction of G&A's Sustainability Highlights newsletter this week. In the U.S.,

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3BL Media

APRIL 15, 2024

CalPERS AUM was as of its last financial report on June 30, 2023, was US$485 billion. The investments made by the plan are central to CalPERS staying power, with 56% of income over the last 20 years coming from investment earnings; 11% coming from plan member dues; and 33% from state public sector employers paying into the system.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For the report, Schroders Institutional Investor Study 2023, Schroders surveyed 770 institutional investors across 36 regions globally, representing nearly $35 trillion in assets under management. This implies clients want to take a more nuanced approach to sustainable investing than in the past.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 12, 2024

Launched eVestment ESG Analytics in 2023. It is open to all types of issuers that seek to issue securities that meet our listing criteria, which are based on the Green and Social Bond Principles as well as the Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles, for which the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) acts as a secretariat.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The council announced that a working group under the Federal Department of Finance has been formed to implement the greenwashing rules, with a full plan to be presented by the end of September 2023. Click here to access the greenwashing position paper and the sustainable finance report.

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3BL Media

JUNE 12, 2024

Originally published in Bloomberg's 2023 Impact Report Structural and systemic shifts accompanying climate change, such as resource scarcity, new technologies and regulations, pose business risks and offer opportunities to issuers and investors globally.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 13, 2024

Ashley Thomson, Global Witness’s US Senior Policy Advisor Similar concerns have also been raised by Tariq Fancy, BlackRock’s former sustainable investment chief, who criticised the firm for “misleading investors” by using the ESG label, calling it a “dangerous placebo”.

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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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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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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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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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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

Our researchers probe 25 key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess how firms manage their resources, employees and finances in comparison to their peer group, with 50% of each company’s score tied to the percentage of their revenue and investments that qualify as sustainable. For the Best 50, that percentage keeps climbing.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2023

The 10 Big Things To Watch Across World’s Energy Markets in 2023. Wed, 01/11/2023 - 14:05. BloombergNEF has analyzed these and other key developments, and here we look forward to what might be coming in 2023. As road and air traffic rebound, the International Energy Agency estimates China’s 2023 oil demand to climb by about 0.78

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Copper Mine Operations to Renewable Diesel Southwest Airlines Eliminates 1.5

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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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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The program targets having 30% of its budget financed through green bonds, and requires at least 37% of spending in Member States’ Recovery and Resilience Plans (RRPs) must be used for sustainable investments and reforms in areas addressing climate change, such as green infrastructure and renewable energy.

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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

JUNE 26, 2024

What sets them apart is their commitment to doing business differently – they’re companies that derive significant revenue from greener products and services, invest in increasingly sustainable projects, and prioritize equity in their operations. More evidence that any company, in any industry, can choose a more sustainable path.

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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

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

JANUARY 8, 2025

Hundreds of RI funds have been winding down in the United States and Europe in 2024 alone, and product development slowed significantly in the first nine months of the year when, according to Morningstar data , 246 new funds came to market globally, compared with 444 over the same period in 2023. Thats down from 31 in 2023.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Investment management firm Fidelity International announced today plans to adopt the “Sustainability Focus” label introduced by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)’s Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) for three funds within its UK domiciled equity fund range.

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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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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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Corporate Knights

MAY 14, 2024

trillion in financing for new fossil fuel expansion projects, investments that put the net-zero goal of the Paris Agreement in jeopardy. Despite these alarming overall figures, bank lending and underwriting for coal, oil and gas fell for a second consecutive year in 2023, dropping 9.4% In 2023, US$347.5 billion in 2023.

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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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