Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The 17th International Convention of the East Asian Economic Association (EAEA) was held on 27-28 August 2022 in Sunway University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in hybrid format. 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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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

LIV Golf is owned and operated by LIV Golf Investments whose vision and mission are centered around making holistic and sustainable investments to enhance the global golf ecosystem and unlock the sport’s untapped worldwide potential. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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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

MAY 20, 2022

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? Footnotes. [1]

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ESG Today

JUNE 24, 2022

Jeff and Michael bring significant sustainability, investment and standard-setting expertise to the ISSB. With today’s announcement, the ISSB has now reached its quorum threshold of 8 members, allowing the organization to formally operate. Emmanuel Faber, ISSB Chair, said: “With today’s announcement, the ISSB has reached a quorum.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 9, 2024

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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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

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Across the sustainable investment landscape, resources, patience and credibility are all being stretched. – Asset managers are hiring ESG and sustainability staff, you won’t be surprised to learn, and they’re almost certainly not alone. A selection of this week’s major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces. 

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3BL Media

JUNE 12, 2024

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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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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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including ISSB, Calvert, GLP Europe, Metzler AM, and KGAL. . Former World Bank Vice President Jingdong Hua has been appointed as Vice-Chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). Oppenheim Jr. &

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

But experts are concerned the UK is lagging the EU, after HM Treasury said in its consultation response that the finalised rules will take up to four years to come into force. Grey area The exact scope of the UK’s regulatory regime is still yet to be wholly defined.

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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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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 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.

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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. However, it is difficult to measure social impact and there is a lack of standardised metrics. “In

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Chris Hall

JUNE 6, 2024

Systems thinking – which involves adopting a problem-solving approach that views issues as part of a broader, interconnected system – is crucial to facilitating a robust net zero investing landscape, Fidler claimed, noting that it provides new insights that more traditional academic models often don’t have the flexibility or breadth to capture. (..)

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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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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

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Oscar Warwick Thompson, Head of Policy and Communications at the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF), tells ESG Investor that tying ESG to executives’ financial incentives must be done carefully “to avoid a common trend of higher remuneration across the board”. “There is some academic evidence highlighting risks of further (..)

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Just Capital

AUGUST 11, 2022

Three years since the Business Roundtable dedicated its CEOs to pursuing a stakeholder-driven capitalism and just months before the pandemic helped fuel record growth of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) investing, the backlash against both has been intense. The feedback? Non-financial metrics are irrelevant.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

But a new academic study said they were still underperforming their potential. One of the key challenges identified by the WWF may sound familiar to sustainable investment teams: “A large amount of data needs to be mobilised, particularly upstream in the supply chains.

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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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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

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

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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

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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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. Many people want their money to work for them—to preserve their financial security and to improve the world.

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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. 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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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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Chris Hall

JANUARY 31, 2023

This should help different types of investment organisations to match stewardship expenditure to their particular level of ambition, said McNamee. A decisive factor Academic research has highlighted the difficulties in measuring the effectiveness of stewardship and attributing outcomes.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

It is supported by Chronos Sustainability, and its academic partner is the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) Global Climate Transition Centre, which is based at the London School of Economics’ Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the Environment (LSE GRI).

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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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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 24, 2015

Contact: Eve de la Mothe Karoubi The SDGs and Mining: Challenges and Opportunities September 27, 9:00am-11:00am Together with the World Economic Forum, UNDP, and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, SDSN is preparing an atlas of how the SDGs will affect corporations in the mining sector.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 28, 2023

The Finance for Biodiversity Foundation convenes financial sector signatories to a pledge to engage, assess impact, and set targets on biodiversity matters before 2025. It counts 140 financial institutions as signatories, representing €19.7

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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.

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