Chris Hall

MARCH 19, 2024

This included goods made outside the EU using forced labour, as well as products manufactured in the EU containing parts from forced labour abroad. More than six million people in forced labour engaged in industrial sectors, including mining and quarrying, manufacturing, construction and utilities. million in 2016.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 19, 2024

This included goods made outside the EU using forced labour, as well as products manufactured in the EU containing parts from forced labour abroad. More than 6 million people in forced labour engaged in industry sector activities, including mining and quarrying, manufacturing, construction and utilities. million in 2016.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2023

The price signal from the biggest market in term of traded value, the European Union, will be muted as lawmakers eye carbon as a piggy bank to fund the bloc’s shift from Russian gas. The World Bank estimates that a carbon price of $50 to $100 per ton of CO2 is required by 2030 to meet the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Ahead of next week’s IMF and World Bank annual meetings, ex-White House advisor Lawrence Summers called for a “reinvented” World Bank that would prioritise sustainability, supporting global public goods such as climate adaptation , partly via expanded partnership with the private sector. Will their auditors be next to blow the whistle?

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

It has completely divested the fast fashion sector over its poor record on sustainability and the payment of decent wages but maintains engagement through PLWF. “We speak through the platform to several supply chain actors,” says Schmidt. In July, Inditex pledged a “phased and responsible” exit from the region under military rule.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 13, 2024

He cited the IRA as an example of a government initiative having successfully triggered a manufacturing and investment renaissance. It’s not going to be a problem for banks and large corporates to commit to net zero, but SMEs will need support to deliver on their promises.”

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Not the end of the road – Chinese-owned automobile manufacturer Volvo said it would not be able to honour its 2021 pledge to phase-out fossil-fuelled cars beyond 2030. A selection of the major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces. The road to a just transition proved more than a little bumpy this week.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Other states have passed or introduced legislation designed to divest from industries like fossil fuels. ESG states has passed or introduced laws requiring divestment from companies that “boycott” the fossil fuel industry. 4] Model legislation targets banks that divest from fossil fuel companies , ABC News (Dec.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 4, 2024

However, only about US$150 billion has been earmarked on the balance sheets of sovereigns or multilateral banks to address this issue – resulting in a US$850 billion annual financing gap. He reported that many original equipment manufacturers want to be more vertically integrated.

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Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2023

Oil and gas major Shell is under increasing pressure ahead of its annual general meeting (AGM) on 23 May, with asset owners like PGGM and the Church of England Pensions Board announcing their support for a shareholder proposal calling for the company to align its Scope 3 emissions target with the Paris Agreement. Car manufacturer Toyota is facing (..)

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Chris Hall

MAY 19, 2022

To divest or not to divest? Another is establishing the liquidity levels of those investments which enable rapid divestment. Many began the divestment process because of evidence of systematic human rights abuses and corruption led from the very top. Sweden-based Private Bank J. billion (£2.3 billion (£2.3

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Chris Hall

MARCH 13, 2024

Norway-based asset manager Storebrand recently excluded First International Bank of Israel for its involvement in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, while a number of major European banks and pension funds divested from Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

As COVID came to dominate 2020, she helped donate more than 600,000 meals and 100,000 pounds of packaging to food banks. While at Tufts University, from which he received a bachelor’s in international relations and economics, Dowd was involved with the school’s fossil fuels divestment campaign and interned in the Obama White House.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Burning coal emits twice as much carbon dioxide as natural gas and up to 50 times more than solar and wind in their entire lifecycles (manufacturing and recycling included). Now, installing new wind turbines or solar farms is cheaper than keeping coal fired plants, as per the investment bank Lazard. A moral imperative.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Doing less evil sustainable funds did a great job of tracking overall returns, despite horrible things like weapons manufacturers and for-profit prisons getting a bump from Trumps win late in the year, says Tim Nash, the founder of Good Investing, in an email. The energy sector didnt do any favours for sustainable investors in 2024, however.

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Jon Hale

JUNE 3, 2022

Opinion | Republicans Can Stop ESG Political Bias In Pence’s MAGA view of the world, “leftists” have “manufactured” this whole ESG thing, somehow convincing the world’s largest asset managers to go along, “to destroy public companies from within.” “A Why Did Companies Take So Long to Divest from White Supremacy? —?—?—?—?—

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Morgan Stanley, along with Bank of America and Citigroup, has agreed to deeper disclosure.) And the mayors of 12 cities — representing 36 million residents — announced their plans to divest from fossil fuels. Morgan Stanley offered its own twist with a promise to reach "net-zero financed emissions" by the critical 2050 timeframe.

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

The fossil fuels divestment movement continues to grow and as indicated in a recent report by DivestInvest, 1,500 investment institutions, responsible for $39.2 trillion in assets, have committed to divest. Student divestment movements have succeeded in removing fossil fuels from a number of universities in 2021.

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Foley & Hoag

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Sectoral sanctions could be expanded to cover additional transactions within these three sectors or they could target other industries, such as commodities (beyond oil and gas) or manufacturing. These sanctions could also be deployed in tandem with list-based sanctions. Sovereign Debt Restrictions U.S.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 11, 2025

When European Commission (EC) President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled a new defence investment plan, she explicitly highlighted the role of banks and investors. The investor] should engage the company on such impacts and divest if they do not see material impacts being appropriately managed. of GDP to 2.5%

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