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

Climate Change 69

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At COP26, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero ( GFANZ ) declared a sector-wide commitment of US$130 trillion – a number that has increased over the year to US$150 trillion – of private capital to transition the global economy to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. Demanding data.

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Chris Hall

MAY 31, 2024

Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), the Canadian pension fund with net assets of C$434 billion (US$319 billion), recently completed its full withdrawal from oil production and thermal coal mining – thereby becoming one of the first institutional investors to have done so.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

But a new academic study said they were still underperforming their potential. Natural sciences – The task of establishing science-based net zero pathways for corporates still faces many challenges , but a major step was taken this week toward ensuring firms can base their future relationship with nature on science.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Against a backdrop of inflation, supply chain issues and a rising cost-of-living, UK leaders are steadfast in their environmental commitments as they view sustainability action as a means to offset economic uncertainty.

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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

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

MAY 5, 2023

Those arguing for a faster withdrawal from fossil fuel firms have found support from academics at Harvard Business School , and more investors explicitly taking a twin-track approach , engaging with policymakers while upping the stakes at AGMs. But apparently some pensioners are happy with the strategies of the oil majors.

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Divestment Net Zero Academics Sustainable Investment 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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Chris Hall

MARCH 21, 2025

Sustainable investment opportunities and risks are slowly beginning to emerge as Europe outlines its plans to rearm. But some called for a more fundamental reboot of investment in European innovation especially in clean technologies to pursue trajectories that are compatible with its climate transition targets.

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Green Bonds Net Zero Paris Agreement Sustainable Investment 69

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 trillion by 2026, up from US$18.4

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Sustainable Investment Greenwashing Net Zero Academics 130

Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Yet many Canadian banks, pension funds, insurers and large companies still underinvest in clean energy and disproportionately invest in oil, gas and coal. Earlier this year, Canada was recognized as a “low-regulation jurisdiction” on sustainable finance by a UN sustainable investment group. What is needed now?

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3BL Media

JUNE 12, 2024

The Climate Overview tab connects users to additional Bloomberg climate risk tools that can be used for further analysis, including proprietary analytics that surface insights about a company’s emissions footprint, net-zero pathway, alignment with policymakers’ temperature rise goals and physical risk levels.

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Analytics Climate Change Global Economy Data Analytics 147

3BL Media

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Academic researchers. Fixing the S in ESG: How to move from net zero to net impact , Stanford Social Innovation Review, Jason Saul, February 2022. Sustainable Investing Failed Its First Big Test. Grants/giving/volunteer platform representatives. Rating agency representatives. More about our guests.

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Net Zero Academics Sustainable Investment 130

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. First Sentier Investors has more than £119.8 billion (US$152.3

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Sustainable Investment Net Zero Academics 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

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. billion hard cap.

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Climate Change Waste Banking Net Zero 52

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

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Net Zero Academics Sustainable Investment Development 52

Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2023

Having led the world in laying out frameworks to channel sustainable investment, Europe is now preparing to borrow from the US playbook, not least to protect investment flows. But sustainable finance remains an evolving discipline both in academia and industry.

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Climate Change Academics Net Zero Clean Technology 52

3BL Media

JULY 27, 2023

Basically, nature positive is biodiversity’s net zero with a critical difference: While net zero is a destination, nature positive is a journey. This year, for the first time, a company was excluded from an investment fund on the basis of biodiversity. No entity can ever claim to be “nature positive.”

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Global Economy Development Net Zero Climate Change 243

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”. “This is why CalSTRS has pledged to achieve a net zero portfolio by 2050, or sooner.” So it’s therefore a discriminatory policy.” Cole tells her story in more detail here.

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Climate Change Net Zero Academics Sustainable Investment 137

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.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Supply Chains Manufacturing Net Zero 52

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.

Climate Change 52

Climate Change Net Zero Paris Agreement Banking 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. Their success, or otherwise, is expected to be one of the major future streams of study for the initiative.

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