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Which banks are financing the clean energy transition?

Corporate Knights

In an ideal world,” explains Matthew Malinsky , research manager at Corporate Knights, “we’d look at banks’ annual audited financial statements and see the specific outstanding exposures to sustainable activities on the loan book and the investment book, as well as any new additions throughout the reporting period. ” .

Banking 360
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Boardroom Evolution: From Shadows To Spotlight on Sustainability

3BL Media

“To enable board directors to make informed decisions in a modern world, it is essential for them to be well-versed in a variety of critical topic areas,” says Bank Jorgensen, adding “there are a lot of things coming at them – geopolitics, cyber-attacks, AI considerations, human capital and climate change risk and opportunities, to name a few.

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Systems Change Key to Future of Responsible Investment 

Chris Hall

In a new book, the PRI’s former head of policy argues for a more focused approach that leans into systemic stewardship. The rapid growth of responsible investing has brought the industry to an inflection point requiring practitioners to reconsider their focus and purpose if they are to deliver on its potential, a new book contends.

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Focus on Outcomes

Chris Hall

And while he used climate change as an example, the strategy is applicable to other sustainability-related issues. As part of this approach, American Century actively engages with incumbents, accelerates business model progression and drives change in the company and across the industry.

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State Street Global Advisors’ CEO and Head of Asset Stewardship Talk Proxy Season, the State of Energy Amid Ukraine War, and the Future of ESG

Just Capital

So brown-spinning is basically where the pressure on publicly traded companies is becoming so heavy that they are looking at their highest emitting assets and basically saying, “You know what, I’m just going to sell them, get them off my books. How are you thinking about price to book?” What about dividend yields?

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Sustainability trends 2023

Carlos Sanchez

Among companies, Impact Valuation as an approach to valuing a company’s impact on society has hit an inflexion point. The work of the Value Balancing Alliance and Harvard’s newly formed International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI) aim at measuring companies’ value creation.

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Defining Sustainable Economic Systems – Development vs Growth

Richard Matthews

Our economic system has failed to address long-standing threats like climate change, biodiversity loss, disease, water scarcity, and inequality. Sustainable capitalism resists short-term thinking and endeavors to maximize long-term economic value creation.