Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The event was co-hosted by the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), GIZ, and the World Bank.

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3BL Media

JUNE 12, 2024

Climate solutions - As extreme weather events increase, and the transition to a netzero global economy picks up steam, Bloomberg is expanding its climate solutions to help corporate strategy, finance and policy professionals better identify, assess, manage and report climate risks and opportunities.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 4, 2023

The new President of the World Bank, Ajay Banga, recently spoke about investment’s role in delivering positive change. Sustainable investing of every kind is to some degree geared towards addressing the biggest threats facing our planet and its inhabitants, which means our collective response must itself be monumental.

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3BL Media

APRIL 2, 2022

Kirsty Jenkinson Kirsty Jenkinson is the investment director for the Sustainable Investment and Stewardship Strategies (SISS) team for CalSTRS, the largest educator-only public pension fund in the world with an investment portfolio valued at over $320 billion. Prior to joining CalPERS, Ms.

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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. . Swiss bank UBS has signed a ten-year agreement with Climeworks ,?a

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3BL Media

MARCH 1, 2022

BMO GAM (EMEA), which together with Columbia Threadneedle Investments has more than 650 investment professionals in North America, Europe and Asia, will focus on the mining and utilities industries, and scrutinise the areas with the most potential for change, including the US, Japan and South Korea.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 18, 2024

FCA confirms sustainability disclosure and labeling regime The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a policy statement setting out its final rules and guidance on Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and investment labels.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As the CSO for one of the world's top banks, Eric leads a dedicated Corporate Sustainability Office and focuses on achieving the Bank’s sustainability objectives of helping businesses to advance responsibly, steering consumer wealth to sustainable investments, and fostering social inclusiveness and environmental well-being.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Headcount growth was focused on individuals with key skill sets including: banking, ESG investing, in-house corporate ESG, ESG rating agencies and ESG standard setters. Catastrophe models that contain climate conditioned events will play a valuable role in this regard.

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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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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

SDSN served as a key contributor to the many discussions within and alongside official COP events. Read on to learn about COP23 side events hosted in partnership with the SDSN Secretariat, as well as our national and regional networks. SDSN is especially grateful to Enel , for its support of the event.

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B the Change

JULY 7, 2022

Institutional investors are leading in this area; these are mutual funds, pension funds, sovereign funds, insurance companies, banks and financial institutions, family offices, and corporate investors. The numbers speak for themselves: According to the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance, over $35.5 For everyone?

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Copenhagen-based Kristensen will account for regional variations in effort to deepen direct institutional relationships with sustainability-focused manager. The latter can explain different attitudes on key sustainable investment issues, such as allocations to armaments and energy, shaped both by past and more recent events.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The largest youth generation in history is coming of age while inheriting a planet marred by extreme climate events, a lingering pandemic, armed conflicts and sharply rising inflation. He also advises public banks on greening their investments. More than half the world’s population is now under 30 years old. trillion in coal.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It is now squarely a central and strategic risk management issue.” From voluntary to mandatory The recommendations were launched at an event at the New York Stock Exchange as part of New York Climate Week. The TNFD will now encourage and support voluntary market adoption of the recommendations.

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Chris Hall

JULY 22, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including OS-Climate, CIPFA, Isio, ICE, Urgentum and Banca March. . The data being harnessed will enhance ICE’s global sustainable finance offering.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

The resources included deep-dive guidelines for seven sectors – including asset owners, asset managers and banks; high-level guidance for 30 sectors of the global economy; and advice on how to undertake a transition planning cycle.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Four teams have been recognised at a regulator-run TechSprint event aimed at developing technological solutions to counteract greenwashing, boost trust in sustainable finance and improve accuracy of information for investors.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The ‘ Nature Target Setting Framework for Asset Managers and Asset Owners ’ seeks to provide guidance to investors in establishing targets and directing financial resources in line with the mission of the GBF, aiming to protect 30% of terrestrial and marine habitats by 2030. trillion in AUM.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 24, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including the ISSB, Hymans Robertson, 2DII, ACA Group, Edison, UKSIF and Util. . Michael Meehan has stepped down as Chair of the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF).

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It began with a keynote address by Professor Mari Pangestu , Managing Director of World Bank of Development Policy and Partnership. Mahendhiran concluded with the message that if Malaysia does not invest in its STIE Ecosystem and Planetary Health Action Plan, Malaysia will lose its global economic competitiveness.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2023

To quickly grasp the scale of their nature-related exposures, investors and corporates should view new reporting and risk management processes as an extension of existing climate strategies, delegates heard at the PRI in Person 2023 event.

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Chris Hall

JULY 7, 2023

The strategy focuses on three areas: ensuring transparency across the economy, supporting the development of market pools, and ensuring the necessary transmission channels to shift and scale up the financing of the transition to net zero. “While we may not achieve full international alignment, we will ensure that our taxonomy is science-based.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 20, 2023

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including WWF, UNEP, S&P Global Sustainable1, ISS ESG, and CHOOOSE. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has launched a Biodiversity Risk Filter, which looks to aid companies in tackling nature-related risks.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 12, 2024

Ali Al Suhail, Associate at DAI Magister, offers a round-up of funding, regulatory and technology initiatives announced in Dubai aimed at mobilising sustainable investments. In addition, World Bank President Ajay Banga announced that 45% of the bank’s financing will go towards climate-related projects by 2025.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

She also met with former Bank of England governor and UN Climate Special Envoy Mark Carney, who was previously a member of the NWF taskforce, to discuss the development of the fund ahead of the summit. However, recent events may have dealt hopes for increased foreign capital a notable blow.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

It covers all types of asset managers and strategies, as well as various kinds of asset owners – including insurance firms, banks and sovereign wealth funds, expanding from its traditional pension fund base. The PRI also uses the event to work in a more collaborative way with governments and policymakers. “The

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

According to the World Bank , daily per capita waste in developed markets is expected to increase by 19% by 2050,” Stefanie Mollin, Global Equities Portfolio Manager at GIB Asset Management (GIB AM), a UK-based boutique with US$6 billion in AUM, told ESG Investor. billion tonnes. Everything needs to be top-down informed.”

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We Mean Business Coalition

MARCH 24, 2023

At Ceres Global in New York City, 250+ investors and businesses launched a call for policymakers to protect the freedom to invest responsibly, following recent political attempts to frustrate sustainable investment practices.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Investors discussed the practical challenges of climate- and nature- positive investing at a recent Paris roundtable hosted by S&P Global Sustainable1 and ESG Investor. Finding investible projects can be a challenge. Unforeseen events The pace of change in the regulatory landscape is beginning to accelerate.

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Just Capital

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Cambria also joined CNBC ’s ESG Impact event this week to discuss human capital data and the role of disclosure to drive change. JUST Events. The SEC has proposed a common benchmark for how sustainable investment products are labeled, marketed, and reported. banks in 2022. Chart of the Week.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 9, 2020

Degree World” was held in partnership with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) , ICLEI , and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). All pictures, videos and presentations from the event can be found at [link]. This is a critical year.”

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 18, 2024

One of the most important areas of discussion concerned the timing of the application of the standards in the UK, TAC member Paul Lee, Head of Stewardship and Sustainable Investment Strategy at investment consultancy firm Redington, told ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

Even Germany’s decision to permanently shelve Nord Stream 2 , the partial ejection of Russian banks from Swift , and oil and gas majors exiting equity partnerships with Russian companies in recent days have been ignored by the former intelligence officer. Investing in a renewable future.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 21, 2021

At COP26, the FABLE Argentina team participated in the side event ' Is it possible to achieve carbon neutrality for the AFOLU sector in Argentina? ', hosted by Euroclima+ and presented their modelling results, as part of their collaboration with Argentina's government to develop its Long-Term Strategy on Energy and Climate Change 2020-2050.

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Chris Hall

JULY 10, 2023

billion of its £15 billion to agriculture and Barclays launching a £250 million fund to financially assist farmers in embedding sustainability through agri-tech. billion to help farmers fund climate and sustainability investments, taking its total agricultural sector lending capacity to £6.7 Further, NatWest has pledged £1.25

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Chris Hall

APRIL 4, 2024

From the perspective of companies, however, investment volumes have plateaued since Q3 2022, primarily due to a turbulent macroeconomic environment, influencing both the volume and size of investments. Productivity: only 74% of the Latin American population (over 15 years old) has access to bank accounts, versus 97% in OECD countries.

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