Environmental Finance

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

With challenges to sustainable finance in the US, London has a unique opportunity to establish itself as the global leader in impact investing, writes Sarah Teacher

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The rules include a series of criteria for products to use the labels, including a requirement for at least 70% of the products assets to ordinarily be invested in line with the label’s objective, as well as ongoing product-level disclosures for products using a label.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 13, 2024

Then to mark this pivotal moment, we’re leading with BSR’s revealing retrospective “ Beyond 2025: Setting Credible Sustainability Goals for Long-term Impact”. From our media library, we’ve selected the most watched and listened to videos and podcasts.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 24, 2025

Impact jobs that came across our desk this week: US Jobs Tideline is recruiting an impact investing analyst USAA has an opening for. The post The Week’s Jobs: January 24, 2025 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 10, 2025

Impact jobs that came across our desk this week: Upstart Co-Lab is hiring an impact investing coordinator in New York Toniic seeks a. The post The Week’s Jobs: January 10, 2025 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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.

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James Militzer

MARCH 31, 2025

There has long been a debate about whether impact investing must involve a tradeoff between social or environmental impact and financial returns. The answer to that question is nuanced: There is no necessary tradeoff, but committed catalytic investors often do trade returns for impact.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Also about one year ago, Nestlé launched its $2 billion sustainability fund , to support companies developing innovative packaging and recycling technologies through 2025. The company's first investment was in the Closed Loop Leadership Fund.) Nestlé's circular recipe. How to prove circular success?

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2023

We want to keep our products simple and not [end up with] infinite numbers.” The firm has committed to mobilise €125 billion of sustainable finance per annum by 2025. “This is our most sustainable strategy so far and it will take another couple of years before we introduce a sixth,” Homan said. “We Article 9 rebound?

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Environmental Finance

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Real estate is likely to attract further commitments from pension funds' impact investment allocations through 2025, an investment adviser has told Environmental Finance.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

.” Olivier Guigné, Group Chief Investment Officer at CNP Assurances, added: “This fund demonstrates a perfect alignment around our shared values and our commitment to an inclusive and sustainable society. With this investment, our total impact financing commitments now exceed €1.5bn.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 8, 2020

ImpactAlpha, June 8 – Back in 2016, Impact Investing Australia found just $1.2 billion impact-aligned investments across the country. The sector is expected to grow to as much as $100 billion by 2025, according to Benchmarking Impact from the.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

New nature legislation and updated modern slavery act are also key priorities ahead of 2025 federal elections. Next year, Australia is due to finalise its first National Climate Risk Assessment and National Adaptation Plan , which will replace the National Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategy 2021–2025.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 6, 2022

As part of the Total Fund Management, Investment Division, Murray will work closely with senior leaders and investment teams across the organization to lead Ontario Teachers’ plan to create “a lasting, positive impact while creating value for members”.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 14, 2022

UK bank Barclays announced today a new goal to facilitate $ trillion of sustainable and transition financing between 2023 by the end of 2030, marking a significant increase over its current targets of delivering £150bn of social and environmental financing by 2025, and £100bn of green finance by 2030.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 1, 2024

TPG Rise Climate, the climate investing strategy of TPG’s global impact investing platform, TPG Rise, and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, GIC announced an agreement to acquire Germany-based smart and sustainable buildings-focused service provider Techem Group for approximately €6.7 billion (USD$7.4

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Asset owners urged to set holistic goals, managers encouraged to innovate, after GIIN report highlights measurement challenges. Impact investing is becoming a central strategy for large asset owners globally, but divergence remains over how asset managers balance financial risk and return expectations with their clients’ impact-related goals.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Twelve is currently developing its first SAF plant, AirPlant One in Moses Lake, Washington, which is anticipated to begin production in 2025 as the company’s first facility to produce E-Jet SAF, a power-to-liquid jet fuel made from CO2, water and renewable electricity, producing up to 90% lower lifecycle emissions compared to conventional jet fuel.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

“Family offices are seeing an increasing demand, given their ingrained culture around philanthropy combined with generational change and a more sophisticated approach to impact investing,” said Paddy Balfour, executive director at Acre, a specialised recruitment firm for sustainability-related roles.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Ongoing product-level disclosures will be required by large firms from December 2025, and smaller firms a year later.

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3BL Media

JULY 18, 2024

Cisco began supporting Simprints in 2018 as part of our One Billion Lives goal—an ambitious mission to change one billion individual lives through social impact investments. And, biometrically tracking reliable health data over time can play a vital role in assessing the success of campaigns like immunization series. Why open source?

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Chris Hall

MARCH 27, 2025

When it comes to capital allocation, 7% of PRI signatories are investing in publicly traded green, social or other types of thematic bonds to achieve sustainability outcomes. This approach is part of the GEPFs long-term thinking on responsible investment and forms part of our strategy and investment beliefs, the GEPF said.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Brazil’s Enimpacto aims to provide a blueprint for other nations in Latin America to emulate, with one of the national strategy’s objectives being to increase impact investing in country from US$11 billion to US$120 billion. The post Investors Back Brazil’s Revised National Impact Strategy appeared first on ESG Investor.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2024

Furthermore, Mondelēz International confirms a goal to seek no deforestation across the company’s primary commodities by 2025, in accordance with European Union Deforestation Regulation and SBTi guidance.

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3BL Media

MAY 2, 2022

of its electricity from renewable sources, halfway to the RE100 goal of 100% by 2025. Supporting coherent, impactful climate action. Social Impact. Investing in our people. Overall, Bloomberg received 51.2% To build momentum for COP26 in Glasgow, Bloomberg L.P.

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In recent years, impact investing has become mainstream and private equity (PE) firms are playing a key role. Despite being dismissed by some as “woke capitalism”, impact investing is a trend that is here to stay. PE firms have helped to grow the popularity of impact investing.

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Chris Hall

JULY 8, 2022

After a decade of working to grow the UK’s social impact investing market, Big Society Capital (BSC) is calling for more institutional investors to invest more in themes such as the provision of social housing and supporting businesses and communities in deprived areas. . 2025 target .

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Merck was previously recognized in 2018 for its leadership in the fight against Ebola, and in 2020 for its impact investing program. Among the specific actions Merck has taken with our HPV vaccines are: Collaborating with UNICEF on a long-term agreement to provide 91.5

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Just Capital

JUNE 23, 2022

The retailer has committed to spend more than $2 billion with Black-owned businesses through 2025. In April 2021, Target committed to spending more than $2 billion with Black-owned businesses through 2025. In May 2022, Target shared an update on its pledge , reporting: 50% increase in investments with Black-owned businesses from 2020.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

At 28, Kurtis Layden, senior policy advisor in the Office of the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, has been a key advisor on the federal ban on some single-use plastics, taking effect in 2025. Once the ban takes effect in 2025, it could eliminate an estimated 1.3 million tonnes of plastic waste over the following decade.

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3BL Media

JULY 26, 2023

Creating the Green Pay circular IT payment solution, increasing value for our customers and our resale business Remanufacturing devices through Cisco Refresh to give them a new life for our business and planet Priority 3: Invest in resilient ecosystems Thriving economies depend on stable environments and inclusive societies.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 31, 2024

Northwestern Mutual is investing $2.5 The investment comes from the company's $100 million impact investment fund, which is working to deliver on the company's commitment to addressing inequality and the racial wealth gap in the U.S.

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Stanford Social Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The group seeks to renew the Pledge at COP30 in November 2025, this time with a greater focus on ensuring more direct funding for communities. Another important example of collective action in funding is the Forest Tenure Funders Group, a coalition of philanthropic and governmental funders who together are organizing the Pledge: $1.7

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Chris Hall

APRIL 4, 2024

Latin America’s next phase of impact investing must embrace the region’s specific challenges and opportunities, says Ahmad El Jurdi, Principal at Lightrock. In recent years, Latin America has been at the core of a paradox within the global investment landscape.

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Chris Hall

MAY 9, 2023

The global impact investing market was valued at US$1.164 trillion by a Global Impact Investing Network report released last year.

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James Militzer

JUNE 6, 2022

Individuals and foundations that are able to make larger investments may contribute to one of our innovative funds, such as our Refugee Investment Fund, or their loans may finance an entire business or community initiative. Beyond Kiva Capital, we are also making great strides in our Strategic Partnerships efforts.

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James Militzer

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We thank you sincerely, and wish you all the best in 2025. As we contemplate the opportunities and uncertainties of the coming year a year that will mark the 20th anniversary of our site NextBillion would like to express our gratitude to our writers and readers. James Militzer is the managing editor of NextBillion.

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