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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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The three papers recognized this year study three very different topics, but each represents an exemplary effort to deepen our understanding of sustainable investment,” says Lloyd Kurtz , founder of the Moskowitz Prize and again one of the judges this year.

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3BL Media

JUNE 12, 2024

ESG data and scores - Investors and companies can use Bloomberg’s ESG data and ESG scores to inform investment decisions, help comply with regulatory reporting requirements, manage climate risk and more.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Four teams have been recognised at a regulator-run TechSprint event aimed at developing technological solutions to counteract greenwashing, boost trust in sustainable finance and improve accuracy of information for investors. Ultimately, it’s about the disclosures,” she added. “It’s

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The framework will gather a broad range of relevant data points in one place, so investors can pick up that information and use it to engage meaningfully with companies on their approach to pay, she says.

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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. .

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2024

However, investing in social sustainability has several challenges, including difficult geopolitical environment in many countries, as well as a perceived lower rate of return and higher risk. It is an interesting, blended format in investment aid and it would be great to see [other similar] initiatives.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We intend to continue to deepen and expand our work on this Framework and welcome feedback and opportunities for exchanging viewpoints and information. You can download an infographic summary of the Framework and visit the Food Sector and the SDGs webpage for more resources.

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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. to inform their investment decisions.

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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. A good first step is to consider where you have special information and unique access.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Global leaders were not short of information on which to base future climate action this week. But a new academic study said they were still underperforming their potential. A selection of the major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces.

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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.

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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. To address this, CDPQ has built a new tool for managing ESG data named ‘AGIR’, aiming to centralise and facilitate access to ESG information on its portfolio companies.

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Chris Hall

MAY 8, 2022

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. She added that the collaborative nature of the project would help “galvanise such change”.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Each of the pillars has three core themes, such as ‘emissions trends’ under emissions pathways, and a series of ‘yes’ or ‘no’ indicators selected based on materiality, availability and comparability.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 1, 2023

T his puzzles Paul Lee, Head of Stewardship and Sustainable Investment Strategy at UK-based investment consultant Redington, who says accounting standards are fundamental to the information flows that come to investors. “The number of investors is vanishingly small. I don’t know what to do with that information.

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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. and trying to measure with ESG information?—?“is It is an absurd argument from the politically naive.

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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. But she adds: “That’s only for climate disclosures.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 24, 2015

For more information on any of these events and to express your interest in participating please write to the SDSN Secretariat focal point, listed below. An agenda and logistics information will be circulated to participants ahead of the meeting. Please direct all media inquiries to Kathy Zhang.

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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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Chris Hall

JUNE 28, 2023

And then assessing the significance of those impacts.” Apps agrees, saying the TNFD framework should also include that organisations need to be transparent about who was involved in the materiality determination process, including consultations they held with internal and external stakeholders.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Supply Chains Academics Sustainable Investment 52

Chris Hall

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The next focused more deeply on the rising profile of social factors, driven partly by the development of the sustainable investment regulations and frameworks around the global. Similarly, the authors argued that the results achieved could be extrapolated to other sectors.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 29, 2022

In areas of the economy where unionisation levels are low, our stakeholder research and engagement can include talking to academics and NGOs such as migrant workers’ rights organisations,” says Martin. This is despite double that number listing labour disruption as a principal risk to their business. “In

Net Zero 52

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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.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2023

More than 30 firms face proxy votes at AGMs, with investors and campaigners often requesting information on risks posed by restrictive state policies and any mitigation strategies. But sustainable finance remains an evolving discipline both in academia and industry.

Climate Change 52

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

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.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 25, 2020

SDSN: Goals and Actions Normal 0 21 false false false DE X-NONE X-NONE The SDSN pursues to connect the world’s academic, research and knowledge-generating institutions in order to help them realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement. The offered courses are accessible online and free for all.

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3BL Media

APRIL 11, 2025

She embarked on an academic career focusing on the power of sport for social inclusion. Then we need to instigate the deliberate practice to address the issue, through sustained investments, National and International Federations having gender-equality action plans, and the importance of male allies.

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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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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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