ESG Today

MARCH 31, 2023

Canada unveiled its response to the emerging global race to scale up green energy and clean tech manufacturing capacity, with proposals for over $60 billion in tax credits and an additional $20 billion in sustainable infrastructure investments in its 2023 budget, presented by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland.

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3BL Media

JULY 25, 2023

This year’s theme, “Embracing Instability,” highlights the challenges confronting the global economy and underscores the opportunity to better understand and address underlying issues such as persistent inflation, geopolitical tensions, the rise of artificial intelligence and the precarious state of the world’s climate.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Firms underestimate climate risks Climate change impacts are already noticeable throughout the global economy. Insurers and big banks, whose liability is distributed and societal, are more likely to be subject to regulation and may face even stricter requirements in the future.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 5, 2022

According to a June report published by the World Bank, UNESCO, UNICEF, the U.K. Even before the pandemic, the global learning poverty rate was 57 percent. The economic impact is staggering, with $21 trillion lost in potential lifetime earnings by these students in present value, which is 17 percent of today’s global GDP.

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3BL Media

JUNE 28, 2024

As we observe the United Nations’ World Oceans Day 2024, we pay special attention to polar waters, their global roles and transformations, emerging opportunities they present, and our connection to them as businesspeople. Retreating sea ice presents new areas for fishing , particularly for species such as Arctic cod and shrimp.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

“The harsh reality is that emissions are continuing to rise,” says Philipponnat, adding that much of the discussion among policymakers has centred around reducing the CO2 intensity of our global economy. As these perilous climate projections unfold, one might expect an inevitable upheaval in the global economy.

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Stanford Social Innovation

JUNE 6, 2024

By Zainab Raji In a globalized economy, remittances are a pivotal financial flow for developing economies. The project’s success lay in a transparent, shared ledger system, simplifying the verification of international transactions and eliminating typical delays caused by multiple banking intermediaries.

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Stanford Social Innovation

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Recognizing the very real threat to global economies and ecosystems posed by biodiversity loss, prominent global corporations are venturing beyond the atmosphere and into the biosphere. Thus, biodiversity loss presents a tangible operational risk to these industries. For companies operating in non-land-based sectors (i.e.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 27, 2015

An event on “ Unlocking Public and Private Finance for African Infrastructure ” was co-hosted with the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), Brookings, and African Development Bank (AfDB). The press release is available here.

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James Militzer

JUNE 27, 2024

And other East African countries, like Ethiopia and Mozambique, are even collaborating with international entities in the pursuit of their digital transformation: The EDISON Lighthouse Countries network and the World Bank , respectively, have provided input and support for these countries’ plans.

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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. Economic sanctions have so far failed to shake President Vladimir Putin’s resolve.

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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. In 2022 the global waste-management market was valued at US$1.3

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Mediolanum International Funds is the European asset management platform of Medio lanum Banking Group. Invesco has launched its Invesco Environmental Climate Opportunities (ECO) Bond Fund , which offers UK investors income and growth while supporting the transition to a low-carbon global economy.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2023

Taskforce of Climate Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) requirements These are international standards which are intended to embed climate-related financial reporting into mainstream corporate reporting cycles across the wider global economy. This could lead to faster innovation and a more competitive market.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The post TPT Framework “Complements and Builds” on ISSB Standards appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 30, 2020

Equity & Well-being A pivotal aspect of sustainable happiness highlighted in several presentations was the importance of equity and well-being. Paul Polman, Chair of the International Chambers of Commerce and the UN Global Compact, and Co-Founder of IMAGINE, said, “ Happiness and the Sustainable Development Goals are nearly the same….

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 4, 2023

It also underlined that many ecosystem services are not replaceable and studies by bodies such as the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services have found that most ecosystem and biodiversity indicators are already in decline, highlighting the “immediacy of the financial risk” it presents.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 19, 2022

Firstly, the global economy is in the midst of the clean energy transition, one of the biggest changes to an economic system since the second industrial revolution, which introduced mass production in the late 19 th and early 20 th century. Dynamic market expansion. Promising investment opportunities.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

In this article, I’ll summarise key events defining 2022 and present four sustainability trends that will prepare you to create an impact in 2023. Goldman Sachs ‘s and Deutsche Bank’s DWS) for exaggerating claims about their products’ sustainability credentials. 2022 Sustainability Summary.

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B the Change

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

At the core of every B Local are B Corps — for-profit companies using the power of business to transform the global economy to benefit all people, communities, and the planet. B Locals are place-based communities of people using business as a force for good. It’s not just the actions of a single company,” he said.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2023

But it does have credit in the bank. “The With rising concerns that the landscape of net zero pledges and transition guidance is becoming overcrowded, the UNFCCC will be expected to prove the validity and need for its proposed framework over the coming months.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

Our goal is to take this 'whole-of-government' approach and turn it into a 'whole-of-economy' approach. Delivering those contributions will require bold and urgent action — nothing less than transforming important sectors of the global economy, especially when it comes to how we generate power and move people and goods.

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3BL Media

JULY 27, 2023

This post is a transcript of WHC President Margaret O’Gorman’s 2023 State of Corporate Conservation speech, presented in Baltimore at the 2023 WHC Conservation Conference on June 20, 2023. That loss would be a massive hit to the global economy. In 2016, I attended COP13 as part of the WHC delegation of two people.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 19, 2024

We had an abundance of festive cheer, and I always had a pile of presents under the tree. Canada’s former central bank governor, Mark Carney, noted that this transition will require US$200 trillion of funds between now and 2050. My mother grew up with Christmas being a spartan time. For me, she was determined to do the opposite.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The frequency of catastrophic heatwaves, flooding and droughts continues to have an increasingly deadly and devastating impact on all parts of society—including the global economy. COP28 presents an opportunity to raise our global ambition and action. The world is facing unprecedented impacts from a warming planet.

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James Militzer

MARCH 14, 2023

The Trade-Offs and Unequal Benefits of Trade Liberalization However, while the global economy may have benefitted overall from trade liberalization, this growth has not been spread equally. What Does the Future Hold for Globalization? Specific localities and groups of workers have gained at the expense of others.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

With around 70% of the global economy now committed to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, the urgency of exiting coal and completely phasing out fossil fuel subsidies is clear. and the European Union, now covers more than two-thirds of the global economy. Coal emits around 980 grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour (kWh), 2.5

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Pension funds are confronted with immense pressures such as meeting their liabilities, managing deficits, navigating turbulent global economies, and coping with growing regulatory burdens. billion of inflows the previous quarter, according to investment bank Jeffries, which says the US anti-ESG backlash is a key driver of this.

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James Militzer

MARCH 27, 2023

Its loans to lower-income countries total nearly as much as those of all other governments combined , according to the World Bank. A major cause of China’s meteoric rise in emerging markets is that its EHM strategy promotes the ideal of a life economy. When I travel to emerging countries like these, people ask me why U.S. corporations?”

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 20, 2020

This paper presents a first comparison between two country-level indices that aim to measure countries’ preparedness to face epidemics. Still the key messages and the conceptual framework presented in the November 2019 GHS are highly relevant in the Covid-19 context. World Bank. World Bank Blogs. The Lancet 395, no.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Celine Herweijer, Partner, Global Innovation and Sustainability Leader, PwC. The newly anointed group sustainability chief for one of Europe’s largest banks, HSBC — a role she will assume in July — London-based Celine Herweijer is a familiar feature in the continent’s corporate climate movement. LinkedIn | Twitter. LinkedIn | Twitter.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

This trend holds across sectors and regions and puts the sustainable economy on a path to dominate the global economy by the end of the next decade. While the die is cast on the direction of travel of our global economy, we can speed it up. Around 4 a.m., This was a bit of a problem.

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Sustainability Update

APRIL 11, 2023

Top Story/Stories Who am I going to bank with?’ The G&A Institute team continues to monitor and assess the actions of the public sector ESG opposition and we’ll share important developments with you in this newsletter. Here’s a sampling of related actions in the U.S. and abroad.

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