ESG Today

MARCH 24, 2024

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Other indicators are still under consideration by ASCOR, including the question of whether a country’s net zero target is enshrined in national climate law. The TSP outlines how the 86 alliance members, with a collective US$11 trillion in assets, can align their sub-portfolio decarbonisation targets with net zero.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 18, 2024

Transition” refers to activities that do not meet the green thresholds now but are on a pathway to net zero or contributing to net zero outcomes. The measures in sum: The package of measures is intended to improve trust and transparency in the market for sustainable investment products and minimize greenwashing.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

The asset manager’s sustainable investment engagements typically run for three-year periods, with engagement specialists in contact with selected investee companies to track progress against objectives. According to Robeco, each of its engagement topics were selected following consultation with clients.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 26, 2024

Follow that – ExxonMobil’s decision to sue two shareholders sent ripples across the sustainable investment pond, ahead of another fractious annual general meeting (AGM) season. Banking on transition – Banks’ role in the net zero transition was in the headlines this week, for a number of reasons.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 23, 2024

Policies, regulations and wider laws are among the many elements that set the path and guide them on their journey to net zero. When asked to identify barriers to climate solutions-focused investments in Australia, 40% cited policy and regulatory uncertainty – a decrease from 70% the previous year. trillion) in assets.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Difficulties in definition continue to thwart efforts to demonstrate the financial benefits of sustainable investments. Sustainable fund flows attracted US$37 billion of net new money in Q4 2022, with global sustainable fund assets reaching a total of US$2.5 trillion by 2026, up from US$18.4

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

While Asia ’s energy companies are responding positively to climate-related engagements from investors as they demonstrate progress on net zero, decommissioning their most polluting plants remains a steep challenge.

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Chris Hall

JULY 18, 2024

SFDR’s original goals Viewed as a crucial step towards attracting private funding to help Europe make the shift to a net zero economy – one of the EU’s big political objectives – SFDR was introduced with great anticipation in March 2021.

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Chris Hall

MAY 31, 2024

Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), the Canadian pension fund with net assets of C$434 billion (US$319 billion), recently completed its full withdrawal from oil production and thermal coal mining – thereby becoming one of the first institutional investors to have done so.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The FfB Foundation was set up in March 2021 after the launch of the FfB Pledge in the previous year, which currently has 153 signatories across 24 countries with a collective US$22.6 trillion in AUM.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The annual Sustainability Report produced by enterprise software firm SAP appears to reveal that 8 in 10 (83%) UK leaders will maintain or increase their investment in sustainability action by 2026.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 16, 2023

The SCF intends to shield vulnerable households, micro-enterprises and transport users from energy price spikes driven by ETS 2 through the mobilisation of €87 billion between 2026-32, predominantly financed by revenues generated by the ETS, with 25% of the funding supplied by member states. .

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including ISS ESG, MSCI, Persefoni, PwC, Workiva, 9fin, Sphera, and Liquidnet. . This follows the group’s setting of new ESG targets, including a commitment made in April to reach net zero by 2026 across Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions.

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Chris Hall

MAY 20, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Robeco, CFSL, abrdn, UKIB, Octopus Investments, Downing, KGAL, and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation. Dutch asset manager Robeco has launched a new bond strategy that will invest in diversified Asian fixed income.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 2, 2023

Sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) are widely seen as playing a central role in the transition to a low-carbon aviation industry, itself regarded as a key element of the global economy’s net zero trajectory. The aviation sector’s overall global environmental contribution is 2.5% of carbon emissions and 3.5%

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In the race to net zero, Victoria Judd, Counsel at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, explains how the US is lapping the UK and EU in stimulating its green economy. trillion of annual global investments may be required to achieve the emissions reduction aims for 2030, with possibly 70% coming from the private sector.

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Chris Hall

MAY 19, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including Aviva Investors, T Rowe Price, EQT, Nuveen, M&G, ICI Global and SBTi. Sam Tripuraneni has been appointed Head of Sustainable Outcomes at UK-based global asset manager Aviva Investors.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The draft legislation also seeks to ensure that the UK is one step ahead of forthcoming EU legislation (the Regulation on Transparency and Integrity of ESG Rating Activities (ESGR)) which will come into force in 2026. net zero or supply chain) or who offer multiple rating.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 24, 2023

Despite causing short-term supply issues, the IRA is set to have far-reaching implications for net zero transition strategies, domestically and globally. Further, from 2023, at least 40% of the raw minerals used in EV batteries must be sourced from North America, climbing to 80% from 2026. gigawatts (GW) by 2024.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 2, 2025

Energy security has become an overriding concern in the last two years as oil and gas prices have shot up, and sustainable finance has faced an increasingly hostile political environment in the United States. Sustainable Investment Forum (US SIF). Eugene Ellmen writes on sustainable business and finance.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The New York bill will impact companies across the country, said Bryan McGannon, Managing Director of the US Sustainable Investment Forum (US SIF). Subject companies would be required to report emissions data according to a phase-in, with the first reports due in 2027, covering data for the 2026 fiscal year.

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