Corporate Knights

JUNE 28, 2023

The average percentage of sustainable revenues achieved by 2023 Best 50 companies is 46.3%, up from 36.8% They’re sinking more investment money into the green economy, too: the percentage of total investment dollars put toward sustainable investments is just shy of 50% for this year’s Best 50, up from 33.8%

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 17, 2023

G100 Rank Company HQ Location Carbon Productivity % Non-Male Board Directors % Sustainable Revenue % Sustainable Investment Final Grade Climate Commitments. 21 8 Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure PLC Brentford, U.K. 51 Giant Manufacturing Co Ltd Taichung, Taiwan 9% 100% 100% B-. CONTINUE READING. methodology.

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ESG Today

JUNE 5, 2023

The ESAs include The European Banking Authority (EBA), The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA), and The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). Banking regulator EBA found a “clear increase in the total number of potential cases of greenwashing.”

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ESG Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

Battery manufacturer Northvolt announced today that it has raised $5 billion through the largest-ever green loan in Europe, with proceeds from the financing aimed at expanding its Northern Sweden-based lithium-ion battery gigafactory and battery recycling facility.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Larry Fink, the CEO of the largest investment firm in the world, wrote in his 2022 letter to CEOs: “It’s been two years since I wrote that climate risk is investment risk. Sustainable investments have now reached $4 trillion. 113 Murata Manufacturing Co Ltd Japan Information Technology. Source: CK, AYS) 10.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 7, 2025

Under the aegis of the Sustainable Markets Initiative , pharmaceuticals giants AstraZeneca and GSK led a deal that will see the collective procurement of 225 gigawatt hours of renewable energy annually, for medical R&D and manufacturing facilities in China.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 27, 2023

Alyson Slater, head of sustainable investments, Manulife “They didn’t want it done in a fluffy way,” Todd says of her Vancity employers. Likewise, the European Central Bank recently reported that “banks do not yet sufficiently incorporate climate risk into their stress-testing frameworks and internal models.”

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

“The Emerging Leaders program provides a forum where environmentally focused youth can explore and learn about climate solutions and sustainability efforts across public and private sectors,” said Alex Liftman, global environmental executive at Bank of America, which sponsored the program at GreenFin. Mecca Luster.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 3, 2023

See below for the highlights of the past week, and get all your ESG news at ESG Today: Sustainability Goals, Initiatives and Achievements American Airlines Signs Carbon Removal Agreement with Cleantech Startup Graphyte Dow to Build $6.5

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In addition to the financing, suppliers in the program will also receive technical support from sustainability consultant, Guidehouse, to embark on factory upgrades to decrease their climate impact. According to H&M’s 2022 Sustainability Report, Scope 3 makes up nearly 99% of the company’s emissions.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 14, 2022

The churches, through TCCR, enabled sustained attention to what companies were doing – seeking meetings with management, asking questions at company annual meetings, or even worse, from their point of view, filing formal shareholder proposals for inclusion in the proxy mailing to all shareholders. It must be addressed by changing the economy.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Shareholder proposals provide an early warning signal of risks and opportunities for management and boards," said Heidi Welsh, executive director of the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2). Over time, the shareholder resolution process has evolved to offer an additional benefit.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 24, 2024

And one of the biggest problems is that moving from extracting nature-depleting production systems to regenerative ones requires investment and capital expenditure.” China has made some progress on exploring methodology and application of GEP,” he said.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Tim Day, Investment Fund Manager at Trina Solar, explains the importance of Europe’s sustainable investment community in the growth of solar power. This places huge demand on all parties involved in the PV industry, from investors through to manufacturers, installers and end users.

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Sphera

JANUARY 10, 2022

Just one year ago, a European Central Bank report, which addressed how the European banking sector manages climate and environmental risks, found that most banks do not have concrete plans to start preparing for climate change. Products with sustainable investment objectives. Changing ESG Landscapes.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2023

The price signal from the biggest market in term of traded value, the European Union, will be muted as lawmakers eye carbon as a piggy bank to fund the bloc’s shift from Russian gas. The World Bank estimates that a carbon price of $50 to $100 per ton of CO2 is required by 2030 to meet the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

As auto manufacturers’ strategies evolve, other roads are opening up for investors looking to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles. According to the UK’s Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), 77.1% of BEVs registered last year went to fleets and businesses, compared with 22.9% to private buyers.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The standard is cited in the San José Declaration on Sustainable Hydropower, to be issued at the conclusion of the World Hydropower Congress, as the means to demonstrate a project’s sustainability. Leading IHA members have declared their support for the new certification scheme, according to a release.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Marco Folino 27, Vancouver manager of sustainable investing, BentallGreenOak When Marco Folino started working as a management consultant, he found that there were rarely enough sustainability experts to help companies considering integrating ESG into their strategic goals. “A better world doesn’t just have to be a side hustle.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2024

If a company can get 10% of its financing from a SWF and 30% from a development bank, then it becomes much easier for the business to attract the rest of the financing from a private capital source,” said Nacvalovaite. Importantly, having the backing of an SWF opens up the potential for an enterprise to access blended finance. “If

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Chris Hall

MAY 20, 2022

If you ran the world’s largest manufacturer of electric vehicles and found yourself dumped out of a leading ESG index in favour of one of the world’s largest polluters , you might feel a bit miffed. Rows over ratings and executive pay reflect how far ESG integration has yet to run.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Ahead of next week’s IMF and World Bank annual meetings, ex-White House advisor Lawrence Summers called for a “reinvented” World Bank that would prioritise sustainability, supporting global public goods such as climate adaptation , partly via expanded partnership with the private sector.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Verisk Maplecroft, Fair Cost Index, Scope Ratings, LPA, Globalance, GoldenSource, FactSet, ClimateWorks and Higg.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2023

The only company that has attempted DSM exploitation, Nautilus Minerals, went bankrupt in 2019 as it unsuccessfully attempted to develop its Solwara 1 deep sea copper, gold and silver project off the coast of Papua New Guinea, causing large losses for several banks, including ABN Amro and ING Group.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Counting the cost – The impact of the anti-ESG backlash is widely debated by sustainable investment professionals, including at a thoughtful session at last week’s PRI in Person 2023 conference.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Snorre Gjerde, Lead Investment Stewardship Manager, Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), said investors should take advantage of the fact that the recommendations of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) had borrowed both language and structure from those of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 4, 2024

However, only about US$150 billion has been earmarked on the balance sheets of sovereigns or multilateral banks to address this issue – resulting in a US$850 billion annual financing gap. He reported that many original equipment manufacturers want to be more vertically integrated.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 27, 2023

The verdict is still undecided, after a week which saw the electric vehicle manufacturer post record results , while its CEO gave testimony in a California courthouse. Of Musk and materiality – Investors have often wondered whether to view Tesla as a carmaker or a tech company. Tech or car firm?

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Chris Hall

JUNE 15, 2022

The European ESG Template is designed to improve comparability of ESG funds and could help to drive the sustainable investment market. This explainer outlines the steps being taken to standardise ESG data exchange and the EET’s possible impact on sustainable investment. What is the EET?

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 19, 2022

Reducing these emissions has required governments to introduce electric vehicle incentives, companies to set manufacturing targets and consumers to factor sustainability into their transportation decisions – positioning EVs as the clean technology that will dominate the future of transport. per litre respectively in July 2022.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 13, 2024

With competition around sustainable investing heating up globally, the UK government to ensure the country remains attractive – particularly at a time when green pledges have been rolled back by the incumbent administration, driving potential scores of investors away. “The

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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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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Why are nature-based solutions, for example, rarely considered a priority in sustainable investing and its returns? The automotive industry is one success story, and now from 2035 manufacturers can’t sell a car in the UK unless it’s electric. We need a radical reset – not just for humanity, but also for business.

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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. The order comes from Cape Town-based independent power producer Red Rocket.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 8, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including CBRE, NN Group, Nuveen, Shell Foundation, Low Carbon, Brown Advisory, and Aidu. . The fund therefore qualifies as Article 8 under the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 27, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including LGIM, M&G, Stewart Investors, Aviva Investors, Ossiam, Janus Henderson and Quintet. . Europe is home to some of the highest quality and best sustainability companies in the world.

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Richard Matthews

MARCH 21, 2022

While most of these firms are located in the United States, there are some serious players in Africa and Europe leads in terms of PE support for standards of responsible and sustainable investments. billion to invest in companies that provide solutions to environmental or social challenges.

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