ESG Today

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Providers of sustainable and ESG investment products in Europe should be required to follow specific ESG approaches, and provide products that meet certain environmental criteria, according to a series of proposals released today by France’s financial market regulator, The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF).

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GreenBiz

APRIL 19, 2021

Over time, this virtuous cycle would result in a more sustainable form of capitalism. That's the argument I make in an article that Harvard Business Review has just published, "Overselling Sustainability Reporting: Don’t Confuse Output with Impact.” . At the same time, what is billed as an ESG investment is exaggerated.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

DESCRIPTION: This article first appeared in Sustainable Investment: [link]. Sustainability disclosure and client demand is fundamentally changing how fund management teams operate. These adjustments fundamentally apply to Article 8 funds. By Ian Povey-Hall. SOURCE: Acre. Here's how.

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ESG Today

JUNE 10, 2024

According to Candriam, the new fund is being launched as the world faces a water shortage, exacerbated by the impacts of climate change, with growing scarcity emerging as one of the leading challenges for sustainable development, driving a need for investment of nearly $23 trillion for essential infrastructure by 2050.

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ESG Today

MAY 13, 2024

Investment management firm Fidelity International announced the launch of two new SDG-focused fixed income funds, including Fidelity Funds 2 – Sustainable Social Bond Fund, and Fidelity Funds 2 – Sustainable Global Corporate Bond Fund.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Second, the growing number of sustainability SPACs offers investors more opportunities to back companies that match their values. We’ll want investment structures that offer opportunities for all investors, good corporate governance and strong incentives for successful entrepreneurs. Finance & Investing. Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The sustainable investment community already is engaged in this effort, channeling dollars to companies with better environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices. One in every three professionally managed dollars in the United States — $17 trillion — is invested with an ESG focus. Sponsored Article. Contributors.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

To that end, investors such as the SEIU and Trillium have filed resolutions related to racial justice in unprecedented numbers and scope this year, according to the 2021 Proxy Preview produced by nonprofits the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2), As You Sow and Proxy Impact. Sponsored Article. Social Justice. GreenFin 21.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 23, 2021

Water is one of the nine themes that make up the sustainable investment philosophy at Essex. However, William Page, portfolio manager at Essex Investment Management Company, pointed out the other eight themes are all closely connected to water as well. . Finance & Investing. Sponsored Article. GreenFin 21.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

According to a 2021 survey by Morgan Stanley, 99 percent of millennials surveyed were interested in sustainable investing, an all-time high. Interest in sustainability persisted despite the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change is the key focus. Read Lana's full article here - [link]. Here's how. .

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Chris Hall

JULY 3, 2024

Fidelity International has made revisions to its sustainable investing framework to adjust to a changing ESG regulatory landscape, aiming to provide investors with greater transparency on its funds. ESG Target’ is the most robust of the three categories, and applies Article 8 and Article 9-classified SFF funds.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

"We are excited to join PCAF and to support the important work they are leading to build a methodology for global banks' efforts to track and measure climate change risks," said Audrey Choi, Morgan Stanley's chief sustainability officer and CEO of the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing. Finance & Investing.

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3BL Media

MARCH 21, 2022

DESCRIPTION: The dramatic growth of sustainable portfolios has raised big questions for investors. Recent prominent media articles have warned of a bubble and criticized sustainable portfolios for being ineffective as agents of change. Sustainable investment funds are mushrooming. Regulation is never perfect.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Sustainable investments should grow as divestment from carbon-intensive industries intensifies. Finance & Investing. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Faster private- and public-sector innovation to get emissions down should follow.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 7, 2024

Re-categorisation marks latest shift to bolster sustainable investment and analytical resources, as focus on smaller firms offers greater impact for investors. The shift means Matthews’ funds now comprise 14 Article 8 funds, and one Article 9 fund, as designated under the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Market participants flag importance of double materiality to enhance Article 8/9 definition alignment, stress need to recognise transition strategies. Risk of uncertainty French asset manager Mirova’s response said the current definition of Article 8 products is “too broad”, while the definition of Article 9 is “too narrow”.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 20, 2022

(pictured above) Over time and with much, sometimes painful, lived experience, we began to realize that not only should program and investment not exist separately but sometimes there were important learnings to be achieved when they were contemplated together. Read more about aobut the learnings in this article. .

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

institutional investors, and 91 percent across six global markets, expect their firm to increase prioritization of ESG as an investment criterion, according to a recent Edelman Trust Barometer survey of institutional investors. Finance & Investing. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere).

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3BL Media

JANUARY 24, 2022

Articles, Videos and Podcasts. For this commemorative issue we are looking back and including many of our Readers’ Favorites, i.e., the most-read articles according to Google Analytics. We have also included a few of our own favorite GreenMoney articles, videos and podcasts. SOURCE: GreenMoney Journal. of Morningstar.

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

Financial flows are changing, with public and private funding gravitating towards net-zero, sustainable investments. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. We are already seeing signals of this. Leadership. Shutterstock.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 25, 2024

However, the practical application of these practices, particularly in the context of the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), has revealed technical and regulatory challenges of great complexity. trillion (US$4.5

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ESG Today

JULY 18, 2022

UK-based investment company abrdn announced today the transition of three SICAV funds, including its flagship Asia Pacific Equity Fund, to sustainable investment products classified as Article 8 (products promoting environmental or social characteristics) under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 3, 2024

A rebound in Article 8 and 9 products over past year leaves sustainable funds accounting for the majority of the German market, according to Scope Ratings. This means the number and assets under management (AUM) of light green (Article 8) and dark green (Article 9) products had increased again so far this year.

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ESG Today

MAY 15, 2023

More than a quarter of Article 8 funds contain ESG or Sustainable terms in their names. In its examination of Article 8 funds, for example, Clarity AI found that only 20% of those with the term “sustainable” (or similar) plan to meet ESMA’s 50% investment threshold, and a further 20% plan to make less than 10% sustainable investment.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

ESG portfolios not only have outperformed traditional financial assets this year, but also a data analysis prepared by Morningstar, a financial advisory research firm, concluded that almost 60 percent of sustainable investments delivered higher returns than comparable funds over the past decade. Finance & Investing.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In its review, however, the Commission expressed concern that the Article 8 and 9 classifications were being used as de-facto sustainability quality labels, raising potential greenwashing risks.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The new funds are classified as Article 9 under the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) indicating that they have sustainable investment as their objective.

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Environmental Finance

JULY 25, 2024

The EU should ditch the 'sustainable investment' definition in its Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and introduce a two-tier categorisation system that would effectively replace the current SFDR Articles 8 and 9, an EU regulator recommends.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

Sustainable growth? It is not hard to see why offering sustainable investments is so appealing to companies. With such demand for sustainable investing, regulators and lawmakers around the world have become increasingly concerned about the risk that some will take advantage by greenwashing. It is big business.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

Sustainable cafeterias might be replaced with high-waste food delivery services. . Another factor that contributes to more sustainability investment on large corporate campuses is that they are either owned by the company or are in long-term lease agreements, sometimes up to 20 years. Sponsored Article. Built Environment.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 17, 2022

Delays to corporate sustainability reporting legislation makes investor assessments more challenging, says Clarity AI. . Equity funds labelled as Article 8 under the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) are no more aligned with the environmental taxonomy than non-ESG funds, according to Clarity AI. .

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ESG Today

APRIL 13, 2023

The regulation includes classification levels for sustainability-focused investment funds, including ‘Article 8’ funds that “promote environmental or social characteristics or a combination of those characteristics,” and the more stringent ‘Article 9’ funds, “which have sustainable investment as their objective.”

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3BL Media

JUNE 21, 2022

The answer going forward is Organic and Sustainable Agriculture with variety of criteria that we set forth in this article. Read Craig's full article here - [link]. Investors and consumers are waking up and beginning to ask tough questions of farm managers. The USDA Certified Organic standard meets these criteria today.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Read Tim's informative article here - [link]. Tweet me: Tapping the Catalytic Capital Potential of Donor Advised Funds by Tim Freundlich of ImpactAssets -- [link] || #impinv #philanthropy #donoradvisedfunds #climatesolutions #socap22 @ImpactAssets.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While some investments are neutral (deemed neither “clean” nor “dirty”), in many cases these companies are still investing most of their capital into assets that will either lock in further GHG emissions or become stranded assets as the energy transition takes shape. Read article. dollars) through 2030. Whereas just 2.7%

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Environmental Finance

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The EU has been told it should create three categories of sustainable investment products to replace the existing Article 8 and 9 disclosure framework under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), by its expert Platform on Sustainable Finance

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The joint committee of Europe’s three primary financial regulatory agencies, the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) announced today proposals to add disclosures to the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) relating to investments in fossil gas and nuclear energy activities.

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