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

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Sustainable Investment Greenwashing Net Zero Academics 130

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. . Switzerland.

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Climate Change Analytics Digital Transformation Digitalization 98

Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

Professor Steve Keen says asset owners should dedicate more investments to the climate transition, while prioritising scientific predictions over economic ones. Institutional investors are ill-prepared for the impending societal and economic changes likely to be triggered by climate change and have their priorities all wrong.

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3BL Media

MAY 20, 2022

As a result, genuine changes for the better may not be acknowledged and emulated, while changes for the worse, which are bound to happen, may be taken for granted or misunderstood. And the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment brought legal, economic, and investability filters to the group’s investigations.

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Supply Chain Supply Chains Sustainable Investment Greenhouse Gas Protocol 130

Chris Hall

AUGUST 31, 2023

Despite growing sustainable investment opportunities across Africa, “business-as-usual” finance system reinforces funding gap. Climate finance channelled into Africa cannot be upscaled in line with a 1.5°C The Loss and Damage Fund was unveiled at COP27 and aims to compensate countries most vulnerable to climate change.

Climate Change 69

Climate Change Net Zero Development Academics 69

Chris Hall

OCTOBER 1, 2022

These long-held principles of sustainability have filtered down to the world of investment. According to figures published by The Global Sustainable Investment Alliance in 2021, Japan’s total sustainably invested assets stood at US$42,874 billion in 2020, representing a more than fivefold increase from 2016.

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Climate Action Tracker Stewardship Code Sustainable Investment Climate Change 98

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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Sustainable Investment Net Zero Academics Climate Change 52

Chris Hall

JUNE 6, 2024

They agreed there is a very high likelihood that the performance of individual issuers and capital markets will be affected by climate change outcomes, meaning every investor should consider climate impacts in their risk management wherever there is performance materiality.

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Net Zero Paris Agreement Sustainable Investment Climate Change 69

Jon Hale

MAY 13, 2022

End of Week Notes The widespread use of “ESG” obscures the broader purpose of sustainable investing and makes it easier to attack. While it’s not perfect, I prefer the term “sustainable investing,” but it’s a battle I may not be winning. That could be one reason “ESG” is used more often in fund names.

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Sustainable Investment Climate Change Academics 52

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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Greenwashing Digitalization Academics Development 59

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. Traditionally, most experts in finance and economics thought this was an impossibility.

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Green Bonds Decarbonize Negative Screening Banking 124

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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Banking Climate Change Net Zero Supply Chain 52

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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Divestment Net Zero Climate Change COP26 81

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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Development Net Zero Supply Chain Supply Chains 72

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. . The two new ETFs are the JPMorgan Climate Change Solutions (T3MP) and JPMorgan UK Equity Core (JUKE) UCITS ETFs.

Climate Change 52

Climate Change Waste Banking Net Zero 52

Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The emissions pathways and climate policies pillars aim to inform investors about the effectiveness and performance of sovereigns in managing climate change, the report said, while the third pillar outlines the landscape of climate risks and opportunities that each country faces.

Net Zero 52

Net Zero Climate Change Banking Academics 52

Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This March, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a sustainable business forum in Vancouver “things have changed” since the country signed up to the Paris Agreement on climate change. Finance is still an overlooked frontier for climate policy in Canada. But she adds: “That’s only for climate disclosures.

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Climate Change Net Zero Paris Agreement Banking 52

Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Academic study condemns managers as “stewards of the status quo”. . Serious doubts about the environmental stewardship credentials of three of the world’s largest asset management firms have been raised by academics at City Political Economy Research Centre (CITYPERC), part of City, University of London.

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Academics Sustainable Investment Climate Change 52

Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

C of warming, the Inevitable Policy Response calculates that current government policies, ie those in place pre-COP28, will only limit climate change to 1.8°C Remco Fischer, Head of Climate Change at the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative, sees less risk for investors taking bets on a 1.5°C

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Net Zero Paris Agreement Stranded Assets Climate Change 72

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The magnitude of private sector firepower committed to addressing climate change now lies broadly in line with requirements to reach a low-carbon economy. It explains why activists and the public demand that the finance sector does more to address climate change. Demanding data.

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Net Zero COP26 Banking Climate Change 52

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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Net Zero Paris Agreement Climate Change Banking 52

Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 24, 2015

Contact: Aditi Shah Music for a Sustainable Planet September 23, 7:30pm-9:00pm Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, New York, NY 10025 Purchase tickets The International Conference on Sustainable Development presents “Music for a Sustainable Planet” featuring The Kronos Quartet and ÆON Music Ensemble performing works in response to Climate Change.

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Development Logistics Academics Sustainable Investment 52

Sustainable Development Network

MAY 25, 2020

But the actions taken against climate change and environmental protection were not enough (Castelló et al, 2010) Furthermore, they were “targets mainly for poor countries, to which rich countries were to add their solidarity and assistance through finances and technology” (Sachs, 2012). Thus, the SDG Academy was created.

Development 52

Development Decarbonize Paris Agreement Academics 52

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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Stewardship Code Net Zero Paris Agreement Divestment 52

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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Global Economy Development Net Zero Climate Change 243

Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2023

It also bolsters the battle against climate change and helps ensure profits from newly discovered resources will be shared equitably, while progress on deep-sea mining regulations and action against plastic pollution in oceans may be achieved later this year.

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Climate Change Academics Net Zero Clean Technology 52

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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Sustainable Investment Climate Change Academics Divestment 52

Chris Hall

AUGUST 21, 2024

Academic studies have found regrets following gender transition treatment of the sort experienced by Cole to be “extremely rare”. Climate change has been a top focus. At the heart of these resolutions is a scepticism that climate change is predominantly caused by human activity. “I

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Most commentators have lamented this political weaponisation, emphasising the need to rebuild a robust sustainability agenda grounded in clear materiality analysis. ESG professionals (perhaps under a new label, such as “sustainable investing”) may have to operate within a polarised political environment for the foreseeable future.

Climate Change 69

Climate Change Academics Sustainable Investment Waste 69

Jon Hale

AUGUST 5, 2022

Never mind that the Republican Party is the world’s only major party opposed to climate action, and that asset managers are just doing their job taking into account the risks posed by climate change to their clients’ portfolios. Pushing Back Against Anti-Climate, Anti-ESG Extremism Writing in Forbes this week , Prof.

Climate Change 97

Climate Change Sustainable Investment Banking Academics 97

Chris Hall

MARCH 3, 2023

In response, investors expressed their frustration and academics reiterated the new rule’s consistency with past guidance. Morningstar data shows passive funds have taken the lion’s share of a rebound in sustainable investment inflows.

Climate Change 52

Climate Change Academics Sustainable Investment Development 52

Jon Hale

AUGUST 12, 2022

They may try to slow the pace of federal climate funding and regulation or try to continue to prop up fossil fuels (which, by the way, the current legislation also does), but they will soon see that the bulk of America’s clean energy transition is taking place in Red States and Red districts. economy.”

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Conscious Investing Climate Change Banking Academics 52

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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Paris Agreement Banking Academics Net Zero 80

Chris Hall

JANUARY 17, 2025

This week, EU and US policymakers prepared for big shifts impacting sustainable investment, amid further evidence that climate risk is financial risk. Lobbyists and policymakers are gearing up to put flesh on the bones of the European Commissions plans to streamline the requirements of key sustainable finance policies.

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Net Zero Supply Chain Supply Chains CDP 80

Chris Hall

MARCH 14, 2025

One of the first senior central bankers to flag the financial risks of climate change , he played a leading role in both the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures and the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero. But Carney also has solid green credentials. Whats in a name?

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