Chris Hall

JULY 4, 2024

Challenge 4: Engagement and divestment Speaking of stewardship, passive ESG equity managers have been criticised over the years for their lack of meaningful engagement with portfolio companies. We now see certain examples where managers of passive ESG equity strategies are demonstrating a willingness to ‘close the book’.

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Chris Hall

MAY 24, 2024

As such, sustainable investors have what we call style tilts, or a high concentration in the growth investment style, in their public equity books,” said Byrns. It found that this portion totalled only about 10%, which means 90% sit in either the growth or core investment styles. “As

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Chris Hall

APRIL 5, 2022

Do they divest so the poorly performing assets are no longer on their books? There are “better and better tools” to help investors measure the energy efficiency and decarbonisation of their real estate assets, said WBCSD’s Hunziker, but it is difficult for investors to know how to act on the data. . “Do Hunziker said. .

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

From companies looking to select cleaner manufacturing suppliers, to investors seeking to divest from polluting industries, to consumers making choices about which businesses to patronize, one thing is clear: a reliable way to measure where emissions are coming from is necessary," they wrote. Didn’t you hear the scientists?

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The CDPQ divested from the oil sector five years ago and reinvested the funds in clean energy, a move that has generated an 18% annual return. “We But banks, Scott points out, have relatively short-term lending horizons: “They don’t see past a few quarters when it comes to allocating their loan books.”

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3BL Media

AUGUST 10, 2023

Additionally, businesses across all sectors can be in a state of disruption at any time due to operational changes in process or technology, corporate changes from mergers or divestments and global changes from politicians and trade wars. For these reasons and more, mainstreaming conservation into corporate operations can be challenging.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.

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Foley & Hoag

MARCH 7, 2022

Note that any divestment or transfer of covered debt or equity must be to a non-U.S. As with General License 9A, any divestment or transfer must be to a non-U.S. This General License also does not authorize any debit to an account on the books of a U.S. 14024, until June 24, 2022. financial institution of any Directive 4 entity.

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Stanford Social Innovation

MARCH 3, 2022

The UK is in a bit of a bubble with health initiatives, compared with the United States—we have the NHS, which is a public health system, whereas, as pointed out in Michael Lewis’s searing book on the pandemic, The Premonition , the United States. Companies need to understand that good health is good business.

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Richard Matthews

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

University activists are increasingly citing the oil and gas industry’s targeting of kids in the classroom as another reason to divest from fossil fuels. One of the most creative efforts involves a comic book character named Petro Pete that encourages children in Oklahoma to fear life without oil and gas. The divestment solution.

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Edouard Stenger

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Additionally, divestment campaigns and the fear of stranded assets have become each new year more pressing. Let us hope similar plans emerge around the world, thus relegating oil and coal to the history books.

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James Militzer

APRIL 14, 2025

Even if loan terms are suspended or new loan quality improves, companies remain at risk unless their existing loan book is restructured. To avoid this, lenders should take proactive steps to restructure debt, while shareholders should act decisively either supporting the company or divesting.

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Jon Hale

JUNE 3, 2022

Why Did Companies Take So Long to Divest from White Supremacy? —?—?—?—?— A conversation between Anand Giridharadas and David Gelles, author of a new book, The Man Who Broke Capitalism, about Jack Welch and how he ran GE as the epitome of the shareholder primacy view of capitalism.

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