ESG Today

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (OTPP), one of Canada’s largest investors, with over $240 billion in assets under management, announced today the appointment of Anna Murray as Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Sustainable Investing.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Gertler said U of T will divest from all direct investments in fossil fuel firms within 12 months, and divest from pooled investments by 2030. The university will allocate 10% of its $4-billion endowment to sustainable investments by 2025 (the “invest” side of DivestInvest).

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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

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 million kroner in 2022 from 9.03

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

February 25, 2025 /3BL/ - Impact Laboratories, verifier of the worlds most trusted green lab certification, has secured $4.95 These investors bring not only capital but also deep expertise in scientific research, sustainable investment, and media outreach to accelerate Impact Laboratories mission. SPOKANE, Wash.,

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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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ESG Today

JANUARY 7, 2025

Ghislaine Nadaud, Senior Sustainability Investing Specialist at Robeco said: In our engagement with transition sectors, we will be not only focusing on downstream or upstream activities.

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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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GreenBiz

APRIL 23, 2021

Water is one of the nine themes that make up the sustainable investment philosophy at Essex. However, William Page, portfolio manager at Essex Investment Management Company, pointed out the other eight themes are all closely connected to water as well. . Essex: Water is an expression of climate change at a local level.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Much of the action is taking place in Europe, where PwC predicted that ESG funds — "a central tenet of the investment landscape" — could outpace traditional funds by 2025. Still, the markets for sustainable investing and finance are young and the standards are evolving or, in some cases, don’t yet fully exist.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 22, 2023

The amount of these pension funds’ actual investments labelled as “sustainable” rose to $276 billion in 2021, up from just $163 billion a year earlier. The dashboard shows that sustainable investments composed nearly 13% of the pension funds’ total assets of $2.2 trillion, versus just 7% of $2.1

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

This week in ESG news: Australia passes mandatory climate reporting law; Google signs carbon removal deal at landmark $100/ton price; Bain survey finds CEOs losing focus on sustainability as it becomes more important to consumers and corporate buyers; SEC fines Keurig over coffee pod recycling claims; Oracle launches sustainability data and reporting (..)

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Reports released on COP29 ’s Finance Day by the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance (GSIA) and Taskforce on Net Zero Policy have highlighted the significant obstacles that continued policy gaps pose for investors and companies. C temperature pathway.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While some investments are neutral (deemed neither “clean” nor “dirty”), in many cases these companies are still investing most of their capital into assets that will either lock in further GHG emissions or become stranded assets as the energy transition takes shape. dollars) through 2030. Whereas just 2.7%

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 3, 2025

Drastic changes to the scope of sustainability reporting rules will limit investor access to comparable and reliable sustainability data, said Aleksandra Palinska, executive director at the European Sustainable Investment Forum, Europes umbrella network for sustainable finance, in a press release.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 8, 2025

As it stands, without those requirements in place, financial advisers have little incentive to offer sustainable investment options and strategies to their clients. For advisers who want to broach sustainable investing with clients, Saghir suggests starting by asking about philanthropy and the charities they support.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Jenn-Hui Tan, Chief Sustainability Officer, Fidelity International said: “The loss of natural capital is a systematic risk to capital markets, and as such, prioritising and contributing to the health and preservation of our biodiversity and ecosystems is essential. ”

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 7, 2022

The BCGEU resolution, which will be heard at Brookfield’s annual meeting June 10, calls on the massive conglomerate to require two of its affiliated companies with large private equity holdings to set and disclose CO2-emission reduction targets for 2025.

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ESG Today

JULY 22, 2022

Last year, Iberdola announced plans for its financing structure to have an increasingly higher percentage of green and sustainable products, estimated to account for nearly two-thirds of its debt by 2025. Iberdrola has also been actively scaling its clean energy capacity.

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3BL Media

JUNE 22, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Sets interim targets of 1 GW solar by 2025 and net zero for operations by 2030. These include: 1 GW of solar generation capacity (supported by storage) by 2025. Carbon neutral construction by 2025. SOURCE: Prologis. Builds on company’s leadership in green building, solar and more. Publishes 2021-22 ESG Report.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The transaction follows the announcement earlier this year of BNPP AM’s 2025 strategic ambitions, which focus primarily on extending its sustainable investing capabilities and offerings, with the goal to become “the sustainable asset manager of reference in Europe.”

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Chris Hall

MAY 18, 2022

Asset owners need to demonstrate more flexibility and innovation in their approach to sustainable investing, according to leading asset owners speaking at the Alpha Summit event hosted by the CFA Institute this week. . The fifth edition of the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance’s biennial review highlighted that US$35.2

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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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Chris Hall

JANUARY 6, 2023

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including Carmignac , NBIM, Chronos Sustainability, RBC BlueBay, the IA and EQ Investors. French asset manager Carmignac has appointed Lloyd McAllister as Head of Sustainable Investment.

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ESG Today

JULY 12, 2022

BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) unveiled its 2025 strategic ambitions today, focused primarily on extending its sustainable investing capabilities and offerings, with the goal to become “the sustainable asset manager of reference in Europe.”.

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Environmental Finance

MARCH 4, 2025

The well-attended event in London highlighted that natural capital remains the 'hot topic' of sustainable investing but more infrastructure building is needed. Genevieve Redgrave reports

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ESG Today

AUGUST 22, 2024

Additional priorities under the Roadmap included establishing a sustainable finance taxonomy, and instituting a labeling regime for sustainable investments. Reporting requirements for the first wave of companies would begin from the start of 2025.

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ESG Today

JUNE 10, 2024

ESMA also removed a proposed 50% threshold for the use of “sustainable” or any sustainability-related term, following feedback from investor groups, but added instead a requirement for such funds “to invest meaningfully in sustainable investments.” But up until now, there were no minimum standards.

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Stanford Social Innovation

MARCH 24, 2025

This integration will be showcased at our 2025 USA Expo in Kansas City, where Resolutions social venture challenge model will be incorporated into Enactuss competition structure, creating a more comprehensive support system for young social entrepreneurs.

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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. Investment in adaptation offers significant opportunities that are yet to be comprehensively tapped,” said Rena Pulido, Head of Sustainable Investment Australia at IFM Investors, a A$221.7 billion (US$143.3

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2022

trillion by 2025 , while the IoT market is expected to reach $15 trillion by 2025. In less developed countries, Internet adoption is at 19.5%, well below the 35% target that the Broadband Commission has set for 2025, a key milestone to achieving universal connectivity in 2030. The AI market alone is expected to reach $4.5

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Environmental Finance

MARCH 29, 2023

Banka Slovenije plans to increase its investments in green, social and sustainability bonds to €400 million ($433 million) by the end of 2025 and reduce the carbon footprint of its private sector investments.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

ESG-related assets under management are projected to exceed US$50 trillion in 2025, reflecting the growing demand for sustainable investments. By investing in companies with nature-positive strategies, asset managers can hedge against biodiversity risks while generating returns aligned with sustainability goals.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

See below for the highlights of the past week, and get all your ESG news at ESG Today: Sustainability Goals, Initiatives and Achievements Alfa Laval Launches Hydrogen Business Unit to Capture Clean Energy Transition Opportunities Southwest Signs Deal to Purchase up to 680 Million Gallons Of Sustainable Aviation Fuel Made from Wood Waste Merck to Purchase (..)

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The European Supervisory Authority (ESA) proposed creating two fund categories, one for sustainable funds and another for transition funds, while the European Sustainable Investment Forum (Eurosif) suggested introducing three categories. InfluenceMap also reported that Article 8 funds had cumulatively invested 43.8

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Sustainable investing firm Mirova announced that it has been selected to manage “Objectif biodiversité” a new fund launched by a consortium of French institutional investors, targeting investments in businesses transitioning to sustainable business models and in innovative solutions for biodiversity preservation.

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ESG Today

JUNE 20, 2024

The CSRD took effect from the beginning of 2024 for large public-interest companies with over 500 employees, followed by companies with more than 250 employees or €40 million in revenue in 2025, and listed SMEs in 2026. The new offering is available on the Bloomberg Terminal, and via Data License for enterprise-wide use.

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