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This scrappy Australian recycling pioneer is the most sustainable corporation of 2024

Corporate Knights

Mikkelsen also likes to say that Sims – the top-ranked firm on the Corporate Knights 2024 Global 100 list of the world’s most sustainable publicly traded corporations with more than $1 billion in revenue – is not a Johnny-come-lately to the circular economy in general and the business of decarbonizing steel in particular. .

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Four key lessons from the world’s top responsible investors

Corporate Knights

Here are our top four takeaways from PRI’s 2024 conference, based on insights and conclusions from the world’s top responsible investors. Engagement and divestment both have a role to play The engagement versus divestment debate has been ongoing in the investor community.

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Global ESG Due Diligence + Study 2024

3BL Media

On data quality, we see a great opportunity for sellers and sell-side advisors to drive value from divestments by commissioning higher-quality ESG vendor documentation. On scoping, it is becoming increasingly clear which topics should indeed be part of an ESG due diligence workstream, with the focus moving from values to value.

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Zeros: Insurers are passing climate crisis costs onto homeowners while financing new fossil fuel projects

Corporate Knights

That year, Axa became the first major insurer to divest from coal. Canadian home insurance premiums are expected to rise more than 7% in 2024, according to MyChoice.ca, and the average cost of home insurance in Florida is expected to reach almost US$12,000 this year.

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List of Clean 200 companies captures the green transition in full flight

Corporate Knights

Between July 1, 2016, and January 15, 2024, Clean200 companies generated a total return of 103.5%. And that’s the big deal, says As You Sow CEO Andrew Behar, who co-authored the 2024 study. “In In 2016, we created the Clean200 in response to investors saying, ‘If we divest fossil fuels, there is nothing to invest in.’”

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Californian Pension Funds Face Forced Divestment of Fossil Fuel Holdings

Chris Hall

The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) and the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) have “wildly exaggerated” the costs of divesting fossil fuel holdings, according to climate activist group Fossil Free California (FFC). billion in fossil fuel investments that would need to be divested under SB 1173.

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Orsted - Delivering on business plan with CfD awards for Hornsea 3 and 4 in the UK, a significant divestment, and better than assumed settlements for Ocean Wind. Solid 9M operational earnings and EBITDA guidance narrowed

Global Renewable News

Today (Nov 5), Ørsted's Board of Directors approved the interim report for the first nine months of 2024.Mads Mads Nipper, Group President and CEO of Ørsted, says in a comment to the interim repo.