2025 Divestment Sustainable Investment 
Corporate Knights
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
For the leaders of the divestment movement, which encourages institutional investors to sell off their shares in fossil fuel companies, winning isn’t everything. But after a decade of determined lobbying, the divest side is suddenly doing a lot of winning. That tally, they noted, is bigger than the combined GDP of the U.S.
Corporate Knights
OCTOBER 11, 2022
But 40% of the reductions came from divesting, or selling off, dirty assets, which from the atmosphere’s perspective is akin to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. In terms of sustainable capital expenditures, as a whole the 20 companies projected total sustainable investments of $528 billion (all figures in U.S.
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ESG Today
JUNE 10, 2024
Two-thirds of funds in the EU labelled with sustainable or ESG-related terms may need to sell assets or change their names to align with new anti-greenwashing rules, with stock divestments of as much as $40 billion if all were to keep their names, according to a new report released by investment research firm Morningstar.
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Financial organisations thus have a major role to play in the decarbonisation of the global economy, yet it is estimated that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, the 60 largest banks have instead invested $5.5 Clearly much more needs to be done to pivot towards more sustainable investment and lending practices.
ESG Today
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Based on new underlying European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), the CSRD introduces more detailed reporting requirements on company impacts on the environment, human rights and social standards and sustainability-related risk.
Chris Hall
APRIL 1, 2022
The fund was previously under pressure to divest from carbon-intensive oil and gas companies but, like other asset owners, CalSTRS is choosing to engage, with divestment serving as a last resort. . If engagement and voting fails to promote positive change amongst investee companies, NBIM has demonstrated its willingness to divest.
Chris Hall
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
Canadian pension fund to eschew “blanket divestment”, emphasising role as “active investor and influencer”. Blanket divestment is not the best way to maximise returns without undue risk of loss. And it isn’t the way that we as active investors have maximised our returns over time.”.
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