ESG Today

JULY 4, 2022

The European Central Bank (ECB) announced today a series of moves to further incorporate climate change considerations into its monetary policy framework, including actions to decarbonize its portfolio of corporate bond holdings over time, and to introduce climate-related disclosure requirements for collateral.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Around 90% of EU banks are exposed to climate transition risks, recent analysis from the ECB shows. Banks globally are increasingly feeling two-pronged pressure from regulators and investors to up their climate ambition and stop financing fossil fuels.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The UKs finance sector appears to see things differently, with its banks taking their lead from their American counterparts, while its institutional investors are increasingly turning their eyes to Europe.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

UK ad regulator the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled Thursday that ads by HSBC highlighting the bank’s climate-focused actions were misleading, as they omitted information about HSBC’s continued financing activities for emissions-intensive industries and businesses.

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ESG Today

MAY 6, 2024

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), Hong Kong’s central banking institution, announced the publication of the Hong Kong Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance, aimed at defining and classifying environmentally sustainable economic activities, to help inform decision making and facilitate green finance flows.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 18, 2022

65 of the Global 100 companies have signed up to the Science Based Targets initiative, aligning their emissions reductions with the requirements of the Paris Agreement, up from 60 in 2021. . Contact information: Toby Heaps, CEO, Corporate Knights. 70 86 Nordea Bank Abp Finland NZAM, NZAO, NZBA C+. What is the Global 100?

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 10, 2022

At COP26, in November 2021, states agreed on a series of rules to govern market-based activities under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Even fewer have implemented the rules and safeguards required by the United Nations and the World Bank for forest carbon trading. Communities at risk.

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ESG Today

MARCH 23, 2023

The European Central Bank (ECB) announced today the publication of its first climate-related financial disclosures for its corporate sector and non-monetary policy portfolios, indicating progress towards the decarbonization of the Eurosystem’s €385 billion of corporate securities holdings.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Market Platforms Regulators require exchanges, marketplaces, banks, and brokers to monitor an array of risks because the default of one or a group of participants could rapidly result in contagion across the financial markets. In addition, clients can collaborate through Verafin’s Information Sharing platform to fight crime.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 28, 2022

Once approved by the European Commission, banks will have to start making climate disclosures in 2023, with full phase-in by June 2024. The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published its final standards for how European banks will have to disclose their contribution to the region’s climate targets.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

It is important to do your homework and gather information about whether the company and bond is an attractive investment with attractive risk-adjusted, long-term returns. Considering ESG risks can help inform that.” “Credit and ESG analysis form the foundation of our engagement,” says Ngo. “It

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This is especially fitting as the conference is taking place seven years after the signing of the Paris Agreement – a legally binding international treaty that commits countries to limiting global warming to below 2 (and preferably below 1.5) degrees Celsius. What’s next?

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Corporate Knights

JULY 25, 2023

With the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and environmental groups all in agreement, he added, “getting rid of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies is now a common sense bottom line.” “The simple reality is that it’s no longer free to pollute in Canada,” Guilbeault told media Monday morning. “We

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The Paris Agreement of 2015 highlighted the urgent need for a global transition towards more sustainable business practices, specifically use of carbon-free sources of energy. TPI helps to integrate this information into the investment decision-making process, making it an essential tool for investors. “In

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3BL Media

AUGUST 1, 2022

And they include nearly a dozen companies across industries committing to report on their climate lobbying and often on how their lobbying aligns with the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 For more information, visit ceres.org and follow @CeresNews. degrees Celsius. “As And Dominion Energy Inc.

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B the Change

DECEMBER 17, 2022

How Ando Is Greening the Banking Industry — and, Soon, the Insurance Industry B Corp Bank Prioritizes Transparency and Sustainability Over the last several years, a steady stream of studies has exposed the inexorable link between banking and climate change. And the problem doesn’t stop at banking.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In mid-January, PepsiCo joined that club with a strategy to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent across its entire value chain by 2030 and to reach the elusive net-zero emissions status 10 years before it’s called for by the Paris Agreement. Things like recyclability impediments. We will go another five years through 2026.

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Chris Hall

JULY 5, 2023

Investors may be overlooking the issue of climate-related lobbying by banks in the face of increasing evidence of a lack of consistency between their climate commitments and their positions on legislative and regulatory issues. Schroders voted in favour of the first banking shareholder climate lobbying proposal at Wells Fargo this year.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 21, 2023

AGMs to be held by Citi, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America on 25 April, and by Goldman Sachs on 26 April, are seen as key indicators of investment sentiment.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The vital role that sustainable battery value chains play in meeting the Paris Agreement targets linked to the electrification of transport and power sectors was highlighted during multiple high-level conversations at COP27. For additional information please contact : secretariat@globalbattery.org [link].

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

Alliance extends net zero targets to capital markets activities, as frameworks provide more tailored approach for banks’ transition strategies. The second of the four guidelines requires banks to establish an emissions baseline and annually measure and report the emissions profile of loans and investments. billion from Barclays.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The CAD Trust was created last year by the World Bank, The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), and the government of Singapore. It is a decentralised metadata platform that links, aggregates and harmonises all major carbon registry data to enhance transparent accounting in line with Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Almost seven years since the Paris Agreement was signed at COP21, any number of initiatives have been launched with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and limiting global warming to 1.5°C. The purpose is to evaluate the impact of climate change on the financial system.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

We also agree with its call for reform of the priorities and processes of multilateral development banks to fit the purpose of addressing the climate emergency, align with the global goal of net zero emissions, and better facilitate private climate investment in developing countries by providing de-risking mechanisms. degrees Celsius.

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3BL Media

APRIL 27, 2022

The second most common type of resolution concerns climate lobbying – particularly asking companies to disclose how their climate lobbying and that of their trade associations align with the goals of the Paris Agreement. Agreements on lobbying have been reached at 24 companies. Celsius future scenario.

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Chris Hall

MAY 2, 2024

According to blended finance network Convergence’s latest State of Blended Finance report , the market rebounded to a five-year high of US$15 billion in 2023 after ten years of consistently low volumes, with multilateral development banks (MDBs) and development finance institutions (DFIs) investing greater sums. billion in 2023.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The report aims to increase transparency and inform priorities ahead of the COP28 climate summit, where countries will conclude the first ‘stocktake’ of global progress toward the Paris Agreement and deliver policy recommendations to encourage governments to ratchet up their climate plans.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The GEMs holds the equivalent of three decades of loan performance and default data from multilateral development banks (MDBs). However, that data is only available to a consortium of 24 MDBs, including the World Bank and the European Investment Bank.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

There needs to be regulation and standardisation of the provision of information by companies to financial markets, as well as a strong traditional climate regulation framework in place.” Early action is really important in achieving alignment with the Paris Agreement,” said Russell. “It’s positive C or below 2°C in 2050.

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Chris Hall

JULY 8, 2022

More than 450 firms representing US$130 trillion in assets under management have joined the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero , a coalition of sector-specific initiatives from banks, asset managers, asset owners, insurers and other financial service providers. Paris Agreement alignment is a holistic process.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 18, 2022

of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. “We The Taskforce for Nature-related Disclosures (TNFD) beta framework , which opened for an 18-month consultation this week, will undoubtedly inform the GBF discussions. We will always need accompanying qualitative information [alongside science-based targets].

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Established under Article 14 of the Paris Agreement , the Global Stocktake is designed “to assess the collective progress towards achieving the purpose of [the Paris] Agreement and its long-term goals. What is the purpose of the Global Stocktake? But the Global Stocktake is meant to go far beyond an assessment.

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3BL Media

MARCH 23, 2022

At the same time, it has equipped 46 KFC restaurants in key cities with pilot waste sorting, and has continued to expand its food bank pilot project to reduce food waste. As of December 2021, the KFC Food Bank program has covered more than 120 KFC restaurants in 23 cities. For more information, please visit [link].

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Chris Hall

MARCH 16, 2022

Launched in 2018, they act as a global guiding framework for banks, insurers and investors. They were developed by the European Commission, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the World Resources Institute and the European Investment Bank (EIB) and are hosted by UNEP FI as part of the Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Initiative.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 30, 2019

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is supporting countries in the region to achieve these ambitious goals, along with some foreign governments like Germany. Many of those national studies are now informing well-designed policy packages in consultation with stakeholders, policies, and resources specific to national contexts.

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Chris Hall

JULY 31, 2023

Some actuaries are arguing that “narrative scenarios” – qualitative information to accompany the quantitative data to provide context around climate-related metrics – would help.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 26, 2024

Each country will need to submit National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans (NBSAPs) – akin to nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement – and National Biodiversity Finance Plans (NBFPs) before the meetings begin on 21 October. It also recommended policy actions for risk mitigation.

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