James Militzer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

For instance, the African Development Bank and Green Climate Fund’s $800 million LEAF program promises to spur local currency investments from local financial institutions to scale up the activities of decentralized renewable energy companies. Again, there are many promising examples of this approach in the off-grid sector.

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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. Intentionality means that investors intend to make a positive environmental or social impact through their investments.

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James Militzer

APRIL 19, 2023

Today, a massive climate and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) financing gap still persists — and even after the SDGs and Paris Agreement laid out a critical role for the private sector in 2016, the subsequent years have brought only modest increases in private investment mobilization. They failed. trillion — up from $2.5

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Chris Hall

JUNE 15, 2022

This is because the SDGs are “guiding concepts” but are not designed to be investment factors, “or at least not yet”, the report noted. . To achieve the SDGs by 2030, between US$5-US$7 trillion of investment is needed a year, according to the World Bank. .

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2022

UK pension schemes will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Paris Agreement from October, but will also be given greater flexibility to make climate-positive investments as well as new stewardship guidance, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey confirmed today. Paris alignment. degrees Celsius.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Feeding into that debate is Amal-Lee Amin, Head of Climate Change at British International investment (BII), a UK government-owned institution which provides development finance an impact investment in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. Increasing concern.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Yet the goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement is to limit long-term temperature increases to well below 2 degrees—preferably 1.5 The Impact Investing Institute’s new Just Transition Finance Challenge , whose founding participants are development and mainstream asset owners and managers representing a total of $4.4

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Chris Hall

JULY 15, 2022

This is the excoriating view from the 2° Investing Initiative (2DII), an independent, non-profit think tank working to align financial markets and regulations with the Paris Agreement goals. We’ve talked about mobilising trillions of dollars [for impact investment] for a very long time, but just haven’t done it.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 17, 2022

Given the lack of progress on these fronts by many of its banking members, it was no surprise that GFANZ, the umbrella body for finance sector efforts to adopt net zero-aligned business models, simultaneously issued a proposed framework to help financial institutions to develop credible transition plans.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 26, 2024

In addition, reforestation projects present an incredible opportunity: there are 70 million hectares of degraded land in the country and Brazil has committed to restore 12 million hectares under the Paris Agreement. Not surprisingly, quite a few businesses were created with ambitious goals to tackle such a challenge.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

He has also previously held roles at the Global Impact Investing Net work and the African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank initiative. The unit aims to support the goals of the Paris Agreement by providing equity capital to companies focused on energy transition.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 7, 2022

To address these challenges, PRI suggests that institutional investors and multilateral institutions continue to engage with governments and local regulators on developing and implementing sustainable finance policy frameworks that align with the SDGs and the Paris Agreement. .

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This March, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a sustainable business forum in Vancouver “things have changed” since the country signed up to the Paris Agreement on climate change. But she continues: “All investments are impact investments.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Standardising environmental and social impacts in land-use investments needs to be a priority for the financial sector. Banks and other financial intuitions (FIs) have the potential to help transition land-use to become ‘nature positive’ in addition to ‘net zero’, by redirecting investment to sustainable land-use projects.

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Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2022

A report by the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), which represents central banks and securities regulators, also raises the issue of risks and their relation to fiduciary duty. However, they also depend upon and can adversely affect them. They can both strengthen and undermine the systems on which they rely.”.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2022

Just as financial flows must align with the goals of the Paris Agreement to stand a chance of achieving its goals, investors, banks, policymakers and companies must align financing with the goal of reversing nature loss. The group is actively seeking further investor participation.

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James Militzer

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Yet current financing levels are far short of that: The 10 largest clean cooking companies have raised $200 million since 2014, 68% of total investments during this time. The World Bank estimates that the lack of progress on clean cooking costs the world more than $2.4

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Companies to EU Climate Reporting Requirements ESG Services and Tools MAS Releases Finalized Code of Conduct for ESG Ratings and Data Providers Deloitte Launches Sustainability Upskilling Programs for its Professionals with MIT, NYU, ASU Stripe Launches Platform Enabling Businesses to Pre-order Carbon Removal Sustainable Finance FAB Sets $135 Billion (..)

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Chris Hall

JULY 5, 2023

The US demonstrates the swift difference progressive leadership makes in driving sustainable finance policy. The country is also upping its game on stewardship, with New Zealand’s inaugural Stewardship Code launching last year with 17 signatories, says Simon O’Connor outgoing CEO of RIAA.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 16, 2024

A selection of the major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces. An innovative instrument issued by the World Bank this week offered investors an opportunity to profit from patience. The World Bank certainly hopes so , but the bespoke nature of the deal could make its structure hard to replicate.

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