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ESG Today: Week in Review

ESG Today

million over ESG investing claims; IAASB releases first sustainability reporting assurance standards; EU lawmakers delay supply chain deforestation law; Shell wins appeal against landmark climate ruling; CDP strengthens alignment of sustainability reporting platform with GRI, EU standards; IKEA invests $1.6

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Introducing … GreenFin 21

GreenBiz

institutional investors, and 91 percent across six global markets, expect their firm to increase prioritization of ESG as an investment criterion, according to a recent Edelman Trust Barometer survey of institutional investors. Fully 96 percent of U.S. Three in four U.S. The explosive growth of green finance makes sense.

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The biggest carbon losers

Corporate Knights

While some investments are neutral (deemed neither “clean” nor “dirty”), in many cases these companies are still investing most of their capital into assets that will either lock in further GHG emissions or become stranded assets as the energy transition takes shape. For instance, 87% of oil giant BP’s 36.5-million-tonne

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ESG Today: Week in Review

ESG Today

This week in ESG news: SBTi publishes first draft of new corporate net zero standard; Canadas new PM cancels consumer carbon tax; Amazon launches service to sell carbon credits to companies; UBS pushes back net zero goals after acquiring Credit Suisse; BlackRock enhances sustainability characteristics for funds ahead of new regulations; global accounting (..)

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ESG investments: Exponential potential or surfing one wave?

GreenBiz

ESG portfolios not only have outperformed traditional financial assets this year, but also a data analysis prepared by Morningstar, a financial advisory research firm, concluded that almost 60 percent of sustainable investments delivered higher returns than comparable funds over the past decade.

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Mirova Wins Mandate to Manage New €100 Million Biodiversity Fund

ESG Today

Sustainable investing firm Mirova announced that it has been selected to manage “Objectif biodiversité” a new fund launched by a consortium of French institutional investors, targeting investments in businesses transitioning to sustainable business models and in innovative solutions for biodiversity preservation.

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This Week’s People Moves: Simpson Steps Down as CDP CEO

Chris Hall

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including CDP, Loomis Sayles, UKSIF, Built by Nature, Arcadian AM, London Pensions Fund Authority and PLSA. I am extremely proud of what we have achieved at CDP over the past 21 years.

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