Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including SDI AOP, UBS, Climeworks, AXA, Moody’s RMS, Fathom, Reask, Carbon Direct, Genpact and Climate Vault. . Swiss bank UBS has signed a ten-year agreement with Climeworks ,?a

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Chris Hall

JULY 6, 2023

Ex-Invesco Research Director Hazra to Lead First Sentier MUFG Sustainable Investment Institute, with research planned on engagement, human rights, biodiversity and diversity beyond gender. Other recent reports covered microplastics, microfibres and the challenges of the “rapid evolution” of sustainable investment for fund governance.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2024

If a company can get 10% of its financing from a SWF and 30% from a development bank, then it becomes much easier for the business to attract the rest of the financing from a private capital source,” said Nacvalovaite. Importantly, having the backing of an SWF opens up the potential for an enterprise to access blended finance. “If

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In fact, almost 85 percent of individual investors say they are interested in sustainable investing and more than three quarters believe they can use their investments to influence the extent of climate change. Many people want their money to work for them—to preserve their financial security and to improve the world.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

On sustainable development, climate and financing for development, much ink was spilled on reform and repurposing of the international financial architecture, covering democratisation, debt sustainability, use of metrics beyond GDP to capture “human and planetary wellbeing ”, and increased climate finance.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including AXA IM Alts, PwC, Impax Asset Management, Barclays, Osborne Clarke, and WBCSD. . AXA IM Alts , a global investment management firm with over €190 billion in AUM, is building out its team to support its New Capital Strategy.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The Jump Solution, Eureka Solution, Fast Solution and Globe Trotter awards were won by intelligence platform Fidata, academic institution King’s College London, enh anced due diligence platform Neotas, and SKFH respectively.

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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.

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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

MAY 31, 2024

This achievement was one of several high points in the pension fund’s 2023 sustainable investing (SI) report , published in April. The Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance , which CDPQ co-founded with Allianz, and the Sustainable Markets Initiative, is another good example.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

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

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The impetus for net zero following the Paris COP came from the academic community, was endorsed and framed by policymakers, and requires business model change, often radical, to be implemented by corporates. “We have to acknowledge that with the transition to net zero, finance is an enabler not really the driver.”.

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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. Transition to a sustainable UK agriculture sector is being undermined by a failure to factor the social impacts of addressing the climate and biodiversity crises, according to authors of a new report.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Segal argues that Canada’s policymakers and regulatory bodies have failed to align the country’s financial sector with a “safe climate and stable economy”, leaving little incentive for companies, financial institutions and asset owners to pursue sustainable investment strategies.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

Paul Lee, Head of Stewardship and Sustainable Investment Strategy at investment consultancy Redington, says concerns that fiduciary duty may constrain investor action on climate change or indeed ESG risks more broadly are overstated. “If

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Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2023

However, as institutional investors, academics, NGOs, investor networks and data providers congregated in London last week for ESG Investor ’s inaugural Stewardship Summit , it became clear that many asset owners lack the resources necessary to fulfil their engagement ambitions.

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3BL Media

JULY 27, 2023

For one thing, it means that for the last year or so, I’ve had a serious case of the “told you so’s” as developments on the global, regional and national scales from think tanks and academics have validated the work that we have all been doing for the last 35 years enabling the private sector to act for nature.

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Jon Hale

JANUARY 28, 2022

End of Week Notes It’s not a “craze” and sustainable investors aren’t naive I suppose it’s a sign of success when The Wall Street Journal sees fit to launch a weeklong critique of sustainable investing. Instead, it’s turning toward stakeholder capitalism, which is supported and enabled by sustainable investing.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 21, 2024

Academic studies have found regrets following gender transition treatment of the sort experienced by Cole to be “extremely rare”. This season, the think tank sponsored resolutions at Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase , calling on them to assess the impact of their green energy on emerging economies.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 19, 2022

On the flip side, without urgent and sustained investment in these areas – charging infrastructure, battery production, and the responsible sourcing of materials – the growth of the sector has the potential to stall further down the line, thereby reducing its long-term profitability and the continued electrification of the transport industry.

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Jon Hale

AUGUST 5, 2022

Never mind that this could cost those states billions of dollars by having to pay higher fees to smaller “anti-ESG” banks and asset managers, if they can find any. More on this below. but politically correct in the grifter sense?—?asset asset managers.”

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Jon Hale

AUGUST 12, 2022

Here are the details on that: Analysis | Red America Should Love Green Energy Spending So much for the idea that sustainable investing has somehow been a distraction, keeping policy action from happening. It is an absurd argument from the politically naive.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Concepts of fiduciary duty will be tested, states will take increasingly different positions as federal agencies retrench following the demise of the Chevron precedent , and shareholder resolutions – on sustainability themes in particular – will face greater scrutiny from a post-Gensler Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 14, 2025

Carneys central banking experience, forged in the fires of the global financial crisis and Brexit, may prove priceless to the smallest Group of Seven economy when dealing with a volatile wielder of tariffs. Peak pressure – Asset managers may not be our best hope for saving the planet, according to recent academic research.

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