Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The company is a strong proponent of “ stakeholder capitalism ” and is a prominent member of the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative, a global network pledging signatories to reduce financed emissions to net-zero by 2050. Take BlackRock, for instance. Jon Hale, ESG analyst at Morningstar.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

For financial institutions such as banks, insurance companies and investment managers, scope 3 emissions from supply chains and lending/investment portfolios are often more complex than for other industries. South Pole can help you navigate the existing framework as well as the new net zero guidance (FINZ) which will replace it in Q4 2023.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 26, 2023

It also means cutting off financing for new fossil fuel projects, which HSBC (one of the largest banks in the world) and Lloyds (the largest domestic bank in the U.K.) We will know that the rest of the US$130-trillion GFANZ (Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero) coalition is serious when they follow suit.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 13, 2024

From 2021 to May this year, 22 investors, including banks and pension funds, have divested from JBS or its subsidiaries, citing its links to biodiversity loss and governance issues, according to the Financial Exclusion Tracker project. JBS is widely regarded as an ESG pariah.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 21, 2022

Institutional and wholesale investors are increasingly willing to divest oil and gas firms and other carbon-intensive holdings to meet net zero commitments, according to a new global study. . Divestment appetite . Real-world outcomes .

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ESG Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Claims ESG investors “push a social and political agenda shrouded in secrecy” Investment and finance giants BlackRock, Credit Suisse and UBS are among a list of ten financial companies published by Texas as subject to potential divestment for boycotting energy companies.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Investors that have set net zero targets for their portfolios have been cautioned to carefully evaluate their positions in majority state-owned oil and gas laggards. According to the report, it has the fourth most credible net zero targets of the 25 firms.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Every company and every industry will be transformed by the transition to a net zero world.”. More than 1,000 companies have now committed to a net-zero-emission target in line with a 1.5°C To date, financial firms have pledged that more than US$130 trillion of assets will be net-zero by 2050. Source: CK) 1.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 29, 2024

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that the state has banned UK-based bank Barclays from participating as an underwriter in Texas’ municipal bond market, following the company’s failure to respond to requests for information over its ESG policies.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

C, and investee companies are not yet facing full scrutiny of their net zero transition strategies, posing challenges for institutional investors committed to decarbonising their portfolios in line with the Paris Agreement. Others might set a target for some or all portfolio companies to be net zero aligned by 2030.

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ESG Today

JUNE 19, 2023

In additions to significantly growing its dial-movers list from 60 companies to 105, the expectations for those companies has been expanded to incorporate biodiversity risk and climate lobbying, in addition to net zero target setting and climate-related disclosure. C scenario. C scenario.

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Environmental Finance

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) has warned the biggest polluters in its vast investment portfolio that it expects them to set targets to hit net zero by 2050 "as a matter of urgency", ahead of potential divestment from companies with "high and unmitigated climate risks".

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Originally posted on GFANZ on September 19, 2023 The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) Secretariat today launched a consultation on its work to further refine the definitions of its transition finance strategies and support financial institutions to forecast the impact of these strategies on reducing emissions.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 7, 2023

Timing and influencing the market are vital considerations for asset owners when divesting ESG assets. Since the success of the South African apartheid divestment campaign in the 1980s, investors must contend with similar pressure on other ESG issues, such as the growth of campaigns encouraging them to exit fossil fuels or tobacco.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which manages Norway’s US$1.2 Our long-term return will depend on how the companies in our portfolio manage the transition to a zero emissions society.” . The fund will be engaging with all portfolio companies and asking for science-based short-term, medium-term and 2050 net zero targets.

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ESG Today

MARCH 24, 2024

Deutsche Bank Ties Senior Exec Compensation to Loan Book Decarbonization Goals Private Equity & Venture Capital Carbon Accounting and Management Startup Greenly Raises $52 Million Fullerton Fund Management Raises $100 Million for Decarbonization Opportunities-Focused Private Equity Fund KKR Acquires Majority Stake in U.S.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 13, 2024

Chris Skidmore, former MP and author of the net zero review, talks about what the next UK government should do to get the country’s net zero commitments back on track. “I cannot vote for the [Offshore Petroleum Licensing] bill next week. In May, a High Court ruling ordered it publish a revised net zero strategy.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

AkademikerPension was recently given a gold award, alongside eight other finance sector firms, in an assessment of net zero action by the Imperial College Business School. Last year, it was part of a group of investors representing US$1.5

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 30, 2024

This could stem from campaigns which lobby for divestment from polluting companies or projects. “In our view, the risk to investors from ESG or climate litigation remains primarily indirect,” Mark Banks, Dispute Resolution Senior Associate at Baker McKenzie told ESG Investor.

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Environmental Finance

MARCH 26, 2024

Signatories to the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) "are neither divesting nor engaging differently from banks without a climate commitment," a group of economists said in a damning report.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

This appears to be growing, with increasing numbers in the latter camp moving further in the opposite direction, favouring divestment over engagement – at least as far as the highest emitters are concerned.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 1, 2022

CalSTRS’ commitment to achieving net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 or sooner has heightened the asset owner’s scrutiny of investee companies’ decarbonisation targets and performance. Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which manages Norway’s US$1.1 As of 31 May, 2021, CalSTRS manages US$306.7

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) has called on governments to swiftly implement and intensify climate-related policy that facilitates capital flow towards the net zero transition. Allia nce says t arget-setting by members translating into measurable impact on emissions reduction for the first time.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Buffeted by critics on both sides, finance sector alliances may need to refresh their tactics to progress toward net zero goals in 2023. This time last year BP was in receipt of numerous plaudits for accelerating its net zero transition plans.

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Chris Hall

MAY 3, 2022

The UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) says asset owners need to take a multi-pronged approach to climate engagement to ensure investee companies are decarbonising in line with their net zero portfolio targets.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2022

This followed the final report of the Productive Finance Working Group, formed by HM Treasury, the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority to encourage more investment in long-term less-liquid assets, widely seen as offering a wider range options for investors looking to support the low-carbon transition.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

billion pension pool has set climate targets for fossil fuel majors and banks and will vote against board chairs if they are not met, with divestment viewed as a last resort. This includes banks that have not sufficiently integrated targets, decarbonisation strategy, or climate policy engagement into business strategy.

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Chris Hall

MAY 13, 2022

Drawing on history, the UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance said a financial revolution had been needed to support the industrial one, as fractional reserve banking and the gold standard helped to drive cross-border flows of goods and capital by providing increased maturity transformation and financial leverage. “To

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 30, 2024

This could stem from campaigns which lobby for divestment from polluting companies or projects. “In our view, the risk to investors from ESG or climate litigation remains primarily indirect,” Mark Banks, Dispute Resolution Senior Associate at Baker McKenzie told ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

MAY 31, 2024

Head of Sustainability at CDPQ Bertrand Millot highlights the pension fund’s focus on decarbonising the real economy, as well as comprehensively divesting from the oil industry. In addition to divesting from oil, CDPQ plans to deepen its practice in the biodiversity space and expand the scope of its commitments in nature-positive themes.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

The UK’s Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) hit a significant milestone last week with the release of its final set of transition plan resources to help businesses mobilise finance for the net zero transition. It is also engaging with various policy bodies, such as the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action and GFANZ.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 26, 2024

This must be resisted for the sake of good order in global capital markets.” Meanwhile, others are choosing divestment as a response, with the New York State Common Retirement Fund having announced it would restrict investments in eight oil and gas companies – including Exxon – earlier this year.

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Chris Hall

JULY 14, 2023

According to research by MSCI, nearly half (44%) of listed companies have now set decarbonisation targets, representing an eight-percentage-point increase than was reported in the October 2022 MSCI Net-Zero Tracker , but only 17% of those targets would align with the 1.5°C

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3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2023

BNEF expects a larger jump in 2023 thanks to even more generous tax credits for carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) included in the US Inflation Reduction Act, and an acceleration in net-zero transitions by European companies. The divestment movement will wane. Julia Attwood, head of sustainable materials.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 29, 2022

Sarah Breeden, Executive Director for Financial Stability Strategy and Risk at the Bank of England, pointed to the need for sustainability-related disclosures to flag future risks to investors, by focusing on “the strategic as well as the static”.

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Chris Hall

MAY 5, 2023

Net zero-committed asset managers still investing in laggard oil and gas majors, as pressure to stop financing new fossil fuel production builds. This universe is made up of 90 asset managers, including 25 members of the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative , that have collectively invested US$417 billion into these companies.

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Chris Hall

JULY 7, 2023

This week, the Anglican church’s £3 billion AuM pension scheme announced it was quitting one of the two net zero groupings to which it belongs to better focus efforts to decarbonise its investment portfolio.

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