Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Teasing out corporate pledges from their ledger books is key. Our Sustainable Economy Intelligence database tracks how much companies are funnelling into green capital expenditures (sustainable investment) and the percentage of revenues they earn from planet-friendly products and services (sustainable revenue).

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

Financial flows are changing, with public and private funding gravitating towards net-zero, sustainable investments. Business accountability for human rights, including environmental and social justice beyond what is legally required, is the next chapter in the responsible leadership book. We are already seeing signals of this.

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ESG Today

JULY 7, 2024

Billion from Pension Insurer Varma Fidelity International Launches New Sustainable Investing Framework to Meet New ESG Regulations Exec Moves ESG Book Appoints Justin Fitzpatrick as CEO SBTi Chief Luiz Amaral Resigns ING Appoints Cindy Jia as Head of Sustainable Finance, Americas

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2024

After months of contentious debate, the EU agreed to add natural gas and nuclear to its EU taxonomy, the official list of acceptable sustainable investments to help Europe finance its ambitious climate goals. By 2022, the conversation around nuclear was shifting around the globe.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 28, 2024

This week in ESG news: EU lawmakers agree to delay sustainability reporting standards for specific sectors, non-EU companies; HSBC launches net zero transition plan; BlackRock invests $500 million in clean energy infrastructure developer; GRI launches biodiversity reporting standard; Capgemini survey finds most business leaders plan to increase sustainability (..)

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

EV Battery Investment to $14 Billion Rio Tinto, Prysmian Partner to Build Sustainable Supply Chain for Energy Transition Materials Porsche Signs Deal for Low Carbon Steel Apple, Nike, Launch Initiative to Accelerate Adoption of Clean Energy in Supply Chains ESG Reporting & Disclosure SEC Chair: Investors Want Supply Chain Emissions Reporting to (..)

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ESG Today

MARCH 24, 2024

Deutsche Bank Ties Senior Exec Compensation to Loan Book Decarbonization Goals Private Equity & Venture Capital Carbon Accounting and Management Startup Greenly Raises $52 Million Fullerton Fund Management Raises $100 Million for Decarbonization Opportunities-Focused Private Equity Fund KKR Acquires Majority Stake in U.S.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 25, 2024

served as the sole sustainability structuring agent, with BofA Securities, Inc. acting as joint book runners. The bond drew strong interest from over 60 investors, demonstrating the growing demand for sustainable investment opportunities. BNP Paribas Securities Corp. and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

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3BL Media

MARCH 6, 2024

They can extend sustainability management with SAP Sustainability Footprint Management and SAP Sustainability Data Exchange to help accelerate their journey to the green ledger , managing the carbon entering and leaving their systems and balancing their “carbon books” the same way they balance their financial books.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 7, 2022

KKR is perhaps best known for its $25 billion buyout of food and tobacco company RJR Nabisco in 1988, made famous by the book Barbarians at the Gate. Among KKR’s Canadian investments is the controversial Coastal Gaslink Pipeline, taken over from publicly-listed TC Energy in 2019 by KKR and Alberta Investment Management Corp.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Guest Post: Rethinking Corporate Sustainability in a World Running Out of Time. UK Regulator Targets Greenwashing with New Sustainable Investment Labels and Disclosure Rules. RBC Sets Goals to Reduce Emissions in Loan Book. Triodos Commits to Reduce Emissions in Loan Book and Investments 32% by 2030.

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3BL Media

JULY 16, 2024

The award presentation was held in Chicago in June, during US SIF’s (Sustainable Investment Forum) Forum 2024. She is co-author of the 2015 book Gender Lens Investing: Uncovering Opportunities for Growth, Returns, and Impact and a co-trustee of Heading for Change.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

ICCR and the Shareholder Rights Group have also pu blished a new report on the importance of shareholder proposals , in collaboration with the US Sustainable Investment Forum (SIF). The SEC has also issued seperate guidance warning shareholders against asserting their intention to vote against management to influence decision-making.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 14, 2022

I first met Moira Hutchinson in 1987 when I was working on the first of my series of books on responsible investment. She was generous with her time and provided a wealth of insight into “ethical investing,” as responsible investing was known then. .

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ESG Today

JULY 7, 2022

In his presentation Kirk also downplayed the effects of climate risk on financial growth, indicating that long-term economic growth would make the effects less relevant to overall wealth, and noting that from an investment perspective, the long-term implications of climate risk were beyond the market’s investment horizon.

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3BL Media

MAY 20, 2022

This led the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and the Payne Institute for Public Policy to help form the Coalition on Materials Emissions Transparency – a partnership that enables the sharing of research between institutions as they advance carbon accounting discussions. [1]. Footnotes. [1]

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ESG Today

JUNE 26, 2022

UK Launches “Green Nudge” Initiative to Encourage Sustainable Investment Choices. EU to Require Auditing of Sustainability Reporting, Disclosure by Large non-European Companies. ESG Data Platform ESG Book Raises $35 Million. Volvo Testing Next-Generation Zero Emissions Hydrogen-Powered Truck. Government & Regulators.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 11, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including NN Investment Partners, SDI AOP, ESG Book, ISS ESG, Likvidi, Alcumus. The Eurosystem central banks last year defined their common stance for applying climate-related sustainable investment principles.

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Just Capital

AUGUST 11, 2022

Three years since the Business Roundtable dedicated its CEOs to pursuing a stakeholder-driven capitalism and just months before the pandemic helped fuel record growth of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) investing, the backlash against both has been intense. The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Broadridge, ESG Book, Ada Fintech, Redington, Greyparrot.ai, and Viridios.ai. . Arabesque S-Ray has been rebranded as ESG Book.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 9, 2024

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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Chris Hall

MARCH 25, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Impact Investing Institute, ESG Book, SIX, Sustainalytics, ISS ESG, Marsh, Deutsche Börse and AirCarbon Exchange. trillion in AUM and more than 1,400 private companies.

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Chris Hall

MAY 24, 2024

David Byrns, Portfolio Manager at American Century, explains why transition investing is fundamental to achieving net zero. While global sustainable investments reached US$30.3 It has proved the high-level economic logic that more sustainable businesses are more valuable,” explained Byrns.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 24, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including ICE, ACX, ESG Book, MSCI and Pathzero. . The indices are part of the ICE ESG Bond Index Family , supporting the increasing demand for responsible and sustainable investing. Intercontinental Exchange Inc.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 24, 2024

We should be striving to incorporate these costs into existing accounting systems rather than running parallel ‘books’”. The EU is debating whether and how to put a monetary value on its natural ecosystems as the bloc updates existing regulation on environmental economic accounting.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This aligns with the broader context of the current state of ESG, where sustainable investing is gaining momentum and making a significant impact on the market.” The post Earth’s Balance Sheet appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 16, 2023

The ability of corporates to comply is critical to investors, who will increasingly rely on the new standards to make sustainable investments. He describes this as “possibly the biggest change in regulatory reporting since the invention of double-entry book-keeping 500 years ago”.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 17, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Persefoni, ISS ESG, BNPP AM, Ortec Finance, ESG Book, MSCI, SIX, Urgentem and Likvidi. . It is also part of a wider push towards increased data breadth, quality and standards through industry collaboration.” .

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Chris Hall

JUNE 17, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including BlackRock, Invesco, Franklin Templeton, SUSI Partners, AXA IM Alts, Octopus, KGAL and M&G. . UK-based M&G Investments has made a US$50 million investment in global freight booking and payment platform Freightos Group.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Impact Cubed, NatureAlpha, Sylvera, Carbon Trust, Themis, Manifest Climate and AirCarbon Exchange. The domestic Indonesian carbon market will be linked to ACX’s international client order book.

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We Mean Business Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

The EU Green Taxonomy is one of the cornerstones of the EU Action Plan on financing sustainable growth and is also the foundation of many other pieces of legislation currently being implemented. By refining reporting practices and legislative clarity, the EU Green Taxonomy can become an even more powerful driver of sustainable investments.

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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

At least in Europe, managers can look forward with greater certainty to comprehensive sustainability reporting from corporates , if not necessarily their supply chains. . The launch of a new book on responsible investment in the fixed income markets this week may help to mobilise this latent capacity for change.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 30, 2024

“The MEE wants to have a scientific and clear methodology to assure the quality of the CCER,” said Dr Guo Peiyuan, Chairman of SynTao Green Finance – the founding organisation of China’s Sustainable Investment Forum.   The CCER will now focus on four initial sectors: afforestation, solar power generation, offshore wind and mangrove planting.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

ICCR and the Shareholder Rights Group have also pu blished a new report on the importance of shareholder proposals , in collaboration with the US Sustainable Investment Forum (SIF). The SEC has also issued seperate guidance warning shareholders against asserting their intention to vote against management to influence decision-making.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 11, 2023

In his research notes, he says it “uses the laws of nature to clarify sustainable society, and then identifies major systemic changes and actions needed to achieve it”.

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Just Capital

OCTOBER 7, 2022

This week, we’ve got an interview with AOL cofounder and investor Steve Case about his “Rise of the Rest” tour, the subject of his new book of the same name. The SEC has proposed a common benchmark for how sustainable investment products are labeled, marketed, and reported. (Revolution). banks in 2022.

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