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ESG isn’t a scam. Here’s why.

Corporate Knights

Pence was speaking at an oil and gas conference where executives are being asked tough questions by investors looking to decarbonize their portfolios. They show that many large financial firms are just paying lip service to sustainable investing, and we shouldn’t kid ourselves to think that they are in it to change the world.

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Five Takeaways From Climate Week NYC 2024

3BL Media

Sustainability leaders in business, governments, civil society and the academic community all gathered to discuss the most pressing issues in the fight against climate change under the theme: “It’s Time!” Climate Week NYC is not one event, but a collision of more than 900 events at multiple venues across the New York metro area.

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SDSN Supports Academic Conference on Growth, Resilience and Sustainability in Asia

Sustainable Development Network

He discussed graduate salaries and made suggestions on the policy agenda, including ASEAN working with multilateral institutions and taking action on climate through decarbonization. In the panel discussion that followed, Dr Albert Park shared ADB data on how risk remains elevated for East Asia, and tilting to the downward.

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Whose Data Is This Anyway? Striving for Higher Standards of Emissions Reporting

3BL Media

How can a coalition of organizations bent on improving outcomes, such as Google, Baker Hughes, and academic institutes help lay the groundwork for reliable reporting of emissions that enable better decision making, and which are comparable across the economic spectrum?

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Bloomberg 2023 Impact Report: Supporting Climate Action

3BL Media

Sustainable Business Summits - Bloomberg’s Sustainable Business Summits bring together business leaders and investors globally to drive innovation and scale best practices in sustainable business and finance.

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AB: Materiality Check: The Next Stage of ESG and Responsible Investing

3BL Media

Under SFDR, Article 8 portfolios should promote “environmental or social characteristics, or a combination of those characteristics, provided that the companies in which the investments are made follow good governance practices.” Article 9 portfolios should have “an objective of sustainable investments,” according to SFDR.

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A Realist’s Guide to Investing for Good

Stanford Social Innovation

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. Since their onset in 2019, a related instrument, sustainability linked bonds have surged as a source of financing.