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Why corporate reporting isn’t a proxy for progress

GreenBiz

Chouinard and his coauthors highlighted the many efforts to dollarize ecosystem services (including efforts by The Nature Conservancy plus PwC, the UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, The World Bank and Puma/Kering plus Trucost and their environmental profit and loss, or EP&L).

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Take Five: Future-proofing to the Fore

Chris Hall

Its worth noting that bank finance is expected to be prioritised at first, with no reference in the proposals to adjusting the EU Taxonomy so that defence industries can be considered sustainable. Few options have been ruled out ahead of official legislative text proposals, which are expected on 21 March.

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Report: Meet the top 200 companies investing in a clean energy future

Corporate Knights

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. The Clean200 uses negative screens. Clean 200 Negative Screens Criteria # Excluded.

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Responsible-investing trailblazer awarded Order of Canada

Corporate Knights

MH: Choosing among responsible investment tools – positive and negative screening, divestment and engagement – is complicated. Early in our history, we were so unwelcome that on one occasion a bank chairman turned off the microphone at the bank’s annual meeting so that a church representative couldn’t ask a question. .

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Take Five: Immediately and Gradually

Chris Hall

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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A Realist’s Guide to Investing for Good

Stanford Social Innovation

In fact, almost 85 percent of individual investors say they are interested in sustainable investing and more than three quarters believe they can use their investments to influence the extent of climate change. As a result, to feel better, these investors want to screen out problematic companies from their investment portfolio.

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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: NatureAlpha Joins UN Biodiversity Data Initiative

Chris Hall

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including NatureAlpha, Verdantix, Solactive, Minerva Analytics, Euronext, Joulea, and Clarity AI. index looks to respond to the growing demand for sustainable investment tools. billion on carbon management software.