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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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

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

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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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

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The European Commissions DG FISMA has emphasised the merits of replacing the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulations (SFDR) existing Article 8 and Article 9 labels with formal categories based on clearer criteria. Therefore, replacing this current framework with actual categories with clear criteria is a possibility.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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3BL Media

JANUARY 15, 2025

Check out more from his perspective in an article here. Finalization of Carbon Market Rules : Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, governing carbon markets, was operationalized. He pointed to the adoption of a new taxonomy for sustainable investments as a significant step forward.

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3BL Media

MARCH 23, 2022

Read their complete article and watch a video interview with Mr. Schumann here - [link]. Tweet me: Investing in Water Stewardship - new article by Thomas Schumann of Thomas Schumann Capital and Willem Buiter of Columbia University -- [link] || #ESG #climate #water #investing #WorldWaterDay2022.

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3BL Media

MARCH 7, 2022

But, invest in what, exactly? . Find out more in their full article here - [link]. Tweet me: Navigating the Canals of Water Investing by Garvin Jabusch and Betsy Moszeter of Green Alpha Advisors -- [link] || #water #ESG #impinv #climatechange #nexteconomy @AlphaVerde.

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3BL Media

APRIL 27, 2022

These days, it is my passion and interest in environment, social, and governance (ESG) investing that guide my career, not the job itself. Today, I work as Chief Sustainability Officer and co-founder at Vert Asset Management. Read my story in the full article) . Read Sarah's full article here - [link] . =.

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ESG Today

APRIL 11, 2024

Through our benchmark offering, we aim to unleash the power of data to increase transparency around the performance of ESG funds to enable more opportunities for capital to flow to sustainable investments”.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The fund is categorised as Article 8 under the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation. Candriam, owned by New York Life Investments, has approximately €145 billion (US$159.79 The post Candriam Captures the Long and the Short of Sustainable Investing appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Jon Hale

APRIL 5, 2022

Sustainability Matters Few ESG funds exclude defense stocks or all fossil-fuel stocks From the very first days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the war has been held up as supposedly revealing “fundamental flaws” in sustainable investing. Critics seem to think sustainable investing is dogmatic, monolithic, and undifferentiated.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Continue reading the full article here. KEYWORDS: NYSE: AFL, Aflac, Chief Financial Officer Max Brodén, Japanese Debt Investors, sustainable investment. Tweet me: Hear from @aflac CFO Max Brodén as he discusses the interest-rate differential between the U.S. Read more here: [link].

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3BL Media

AUGUST 1, 2022

Read Joe's insightful and practical article here - [link]. ==. Tweet me: Investing in the Transition to a More Sustainable Economy -- by Joe Keefe, President of Impax Asset Management -- [link] || #ESG #impinv #SustainableEconomy #DEI #climatechange @ImpaxAM @PaxWorld.

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3BL Media

MARCH 21, 2022

An article from The New York Times reports that 66% of mothers with partners say that they are chiefly responsible for childcare, compared to 24% of fathers. If you are interested in advancing gender equality by incorporating these themes into your investment portfolio, reach out to your Morgan Stanley Financial Advisor to learn more.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 10, 2023

billion at the final close of its inaugural direct private markets strategy dedicated to investing in climate and environmental solutions, the Horizon Environment & Climate Solutions I. GSAM stated that the fund will be the first in a series of “Horizon Funds,” targeting investments in key sustainability trends.

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ESG Today

JULY 4, 2024

According to FTSE Russell, the index aims to support investors seeking to integrate sustainable investment considerations into their listed real estate portfolios. The new ETF will track the FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Green Low Carbon Target Select UCITS Capped Index.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 3, 2022

Read Cynthia's full article, featuring JLL's latest research study and their new Global Sustainability Report, here - [link]. But with approximately 80% of existing building stock set to still be standing in 2050, meeting this net zero goal is a huge challenge for the real estate sector.

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