Chris Hall

APRIL 21, 2023

Code of conduct for ESG ratings and data providers, grant schemes for transition bonds and loans, and ISSB-aligned disclosures included in action plan. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has launched a net zero transition financing plan as part of the city-state’s climate and sustainability agenda.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Batteries are a hugely important technology in the net-zero transition. Benedikt Sobotka, Co-Chair of the Global Battery Alliance and CEO of Eurasian Resources Group , said: “We are delighted to welcome those elected to our new Board of Directors.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Banks were hit by a double salvo for continued financing of fossil fuel firms in the face of widely accepted net zero roadmaps and the commitments made at COP26. Campaign groups led by Urgewald and Reclaim Finance reported that commercial banks channelled US$1.5 Pension funds were under fire too.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Academic institutions responsible for £5 billion have sent requests for proposal asking banks and asset managers to develop climate-positive deposits and funds. Moving in – The market for biodiversity credits received a boost this week, with the introduction of the biodiversity net gain (BNG) concept in England.

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MAY 12, 2022

The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) is “ready to work” with other stakeholders on a “more granular breakdown” of finance’s role in fossil fuel expansion, replacement and reduction, UN Special Envoy on Climate Action Finance, Mark Carney, said yesterday. C net zero transition.

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3BL Media

JULY 5, 2024

Having books at home provides a clear path to academic success and we are thrilled to partner with Community Offshore Wind to provide books for children to build libraries of their own. RWE will be net-zero by 2040. We’ll also help them start or build their home libraries and inspire a life-long love of learning.”

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3BL Media

JUNE 12, 2024

The Climate Overview tab connects users to additional Bloomberg climate risk tools that can be used for further analysis, including proprietary analytics that surface insights about a company’s emissions footprint, net-zero pathway, alignment with policymakers’ temperature rise goals and physical risk levels.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2024

The idea that institutional investors are acting under undue influence has been set aside by academic research , at least in the UK context, but Jamie Dimon, CEO and Chair of the firm’s parent, begs to differ. There remains much room for improvement.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

The Water Breakthrough Challenge aimed to encourage initiatives that help to tackle the biggest challenges facing the water sector, such as achieving net zero, protecting natural ecosystems and reducing leakage, as well as delivering value to society. Biopolymers are produced naturally by bacteria in wastewater treatment.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

“ It focuses on companies that have established policies and targets to drive this change,” says Russell, adding that this aspect becomes crucial for asset owners and managers which have committed to achieving net zero by 2050 in alignment with the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Initiatives offer breakthrough for asset owners looking to align their sovereign debt investments with net zero; open door to engagement with governments. Research published by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said that the market for green, social and sustainability bonds reached US$2.9

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Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2023

A selection of this week’s major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces.   Events this week shone a light on the state of net zero transition and investor engagement across key industry sectors. Shell-shocked? Investor pressure mounted on oil and gas firms this week, with Shell feeling the brunt ahead of its 23 May AGM.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The Net Zero on Campus initiative aims to facilitate the sharing of lessons and resources to accelerate the decarbonization of college and university campuses around the world. Together, MREP 1 and 2 have reduced the equivalent of five per cent of the city’s emissions. What were the key success factors in implementing the case study?

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At COP26, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero ( GFANZ ) declared a sector-wide commitment of US$130 trillion – a number that has increased over the year to US$150 trillion – of private capital to transition the global economy to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. There are choices,” said Cabanis.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 29, 2023

The Net Zero on Campus: From Principles to Action initiative, a collaborative effort between SDSN, the Climateworks Centre, and Monash University, aims to facilitate the sharing of lessons and resources to accelerate the decarbonization of university campuses around the world.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Sensing the mood of change, multilateral development banks (MDBs) pointed out that they doubled their climate finance supply between 2019 and 2023 to US$125 billion – achieving much the same increase in the volume of private finance mobilised since 2022. But a new academic study said they were still underperforming their potential.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Asia Sustainability Week Asia Date: 11-13 March Location: Bangkok, Thailand Event Details: In its third year, Sustainability Week Asia will connect sustainability changemakers, purpose-driven consumers and business leaders to gain the tools needed to transition to net-zero, faster.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Before the end of the year, it will publish a price for carbon emissions, which Cohen hopes will put an end to one of the many hot and increasingly political debates surrounding the net zero transition. There are lots of prices for the cost of polluting the atmosphere by emitting more CO2.

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Chris Hall

MAY 31, 2024

Industry collectives, with the assistance of academics and other experts, can help asset owners develop a common understanding of what best practices are and help move companies in the right direction,” he added.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Alva Estabridis, a development and environmental economist, has more than a decade of experience in public policy, working with governments and development institutions, including the World Bank and the International Food Policy Research Institute. Jackson-Moore said: “ESG is the defining business issue.

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Chris Hall

JULY 10, 2023

Just nature transition should be placed “at the heart” of UK agricultural, climate and nature policy engagement, academic report says. billion) of net zero investment annually across all sectors by 2030, including £1.5 Community engagement In attempting to reach net zero, the GRI has called for a ‘just nature transition’.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Voting misalignment between asset managers and owners stems partly from conflicts of interest arising from the formers’ multilateral relationships with investee firms, according to academic research instigated by the UK Asset Owner Roundtable.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 17, 2022

Then there is the over-arching question of how such taxes fit in to the universally accepted need for the world economy to move to a net-zero position. Professor Trevor Williams of Derby University and former Chief Economist at Lloyds Bank said: “One-off taxes on windfall profits should not damage the energy industry.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 6, 2022

As the pre-eminent sustainability G20 side event, the Tri Hita Karana Forum works to foster collaboration across the global investment community with private, public, philanthropic, and academic partners to accelerate this leadership agenda. We are facing an existential crisis which requires huge amounts of capital. That capital exists.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 24, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including JPMAM, Pictet AM, UK Investment Bank and LGT Capital Partners. . JP Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) has announced the launch of two new ETFs, expanding its active ETF line-up. billion hard cap.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

ASCOR is supported by advisory firm Chronos Sustainability, and its academic partner is the TPI Centre, which is based at the London School of Economics’ Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

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Chris Hall

JULY 6, 2023

In addition to interacting with institutional investors, Hazra will engage with non-profits, academics, think tanks, sector experts, and data providers to enhance research output. First Sentier Investors has more than £119.8 billion (US$152.3 billion) in AuM, with its clients including institutional investors and pension funds.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

“Investment consultants have taken some things at face value, which in one sense is understandable – they’re not academics. Scientists and academics live in silos. But the analysis is dreadful and should never have been published in the first place – that is the real reason we’re in deep trouble now.”

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Much of the required fund-raising will be realised through sustainable bonds, said Moody’s, due to a post-pandemic focus on investment to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and major governments’ pursuit of net zero CO2 emissions targets. The Asian Development Bank (ADB), which estimates a US$3.1

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 24, 2023

Carmen Nuzzo , Executive Director of the Transition Pathway Initiative Global Climate Transition Centre (TPI Centre), told ESG Investor that ASCOR will allow investors to track sovereigns’ efforts toward their net zero targets and the national determined contributions (NDCs) to which they’ve committed by signing the Paris Agreement in 2015.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Examples include Bank of Canada and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. The report says that plan should “formalise, standardise, and extend commitments that many Canadian financial institutions have already voluntarily made”, including through the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero initiatives born out of last year’s COP26 Summit.

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Jon Hale

JANUARY 28, 2022

It’s more a theoretical implication often discussed by academics who have yet to find much of a link. In the past several years, these efforts have been more successful than ever in pushing companies on a range of sustainability issues, including making net-zero emissions commitments. Indeed, this year’s proxy season in the U.S.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 22, 2022

SDSN also worked closely with Monash University, ClimateWorks Centre, and a globally representative Academic Advisory Panel on a Net Zero Campus Guide, to be formally launched in early 2023. The team continues to work closely with governments, Multilateral Development Banks and private financial organizations.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 19, 2022

Yet perhaps a more important challenge – and opportunity – relates to scaling up the supply of critical materials for the net-zero transition, such as copper, cobalt, nickel and lithium. EVs require 2.5

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Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2023

Car manufacturer Toyota is facing a climate-focused shareholder resolution of its own, with Danish pension fund AkademikerPension demanding more transparency on the company’s climate lobbying practices. However, as institutional investors, academics, NGOs, investor networks and data providers congregated in London last week for ESG Investor ’s inaugural (..)

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

“It is never about the individual, but the collective,” says Jodi-Ann Jue Xuan Wang, 26, the daughter of first-generation immigrants who advises investors and governments on an equitable transition to net-zero. She specializes in climate policy and finance, advising investors and governments on an equitable transition to net-zero.

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Chris Hall

MAY 26, 2023

The UK also has world-beating universities and research institutions, meaning a steady supply of talented entrepreneurs, academics and workers are constantly seeking out the game changing climate technologies of tomorrow. Now is the right time to back early stage businesses. This has allowed others to make leaps where we’ve made steps.

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