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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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A Fair Day’s Wage for a Fair Day’s Work

Chris Hall

The issues surrounding procuring, disclosing and scrutinising corporates’ social-related data are well-documented.

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Regulators Turn to Tech to Tackle Greenwashing

Chris Hall

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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New Framework to Assess Managers’ Corporate Culture

Chris Hall

Investment consultants have embedded diversity criteria into their manager research functions, based on academic evidence that shows the benefits of a diverse management group and workforce on culture and investment performance. Commercial imperative”.

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Investors’ Audit Gap 

Chris Hall

Investors rarely engage on improving the audit function, but this sorely needs to change, say stewardship proponents. The massive financial and social costs of high-profile accounting scandals are well documented. But despite the constant déjà vu of accounting scandals since, few investors actively engage on the issue.

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ESG and Measuring Social Impact With Purpose

3BL Media

Academic researchers. Grantmakers can now use the Genome Project framework to organize their grants against priority outcomes (of the 132 outcomes documented) and analyze the impact of their work on a particular issue. Sustainable Investing Failed Its First Big Test. Grants/giving/volunteer platform representatives.

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Do – and Should – Asset Managers Care About the ‘S’ in ESG? – Part 1

Chris Hall

The geo-political risks associated with last year’s war in Ukraine plus the current war in the Middle East has pushed the social element of ESG investing to the fore, while the impact of sanctions-screening has raised scrutiny on the social elements such as human rights and community needs still further.