Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 11, 2024

What we heard was a welcome, yet inadequate, attempt to draw level with global climate finance leaders. These are important and positive steps, but they amount to meeting the basic standard, not climate leadership. Gas cannot be transitioned.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 14, 2022

They represented an improvement over when corporate responsibility was measured only in the limited terms of charitable contributions or a corporation’s own definitions of “best practice.” . How does this history relate to our climate change crisis and the debate over fossil fuels? It must be addressed by changing the economy.

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3BL Media

MARCH 5, 2024

According to a recent Bloomberg report, BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager with over US $9 trillion in AUM, has been “expanding its dominance” in ESG investing, with net ESG investment inflows in every quarter of the last two years. For short-term investors, ESG may not make sense.

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Jon Hale

DECEMBER 10, 2021

End of Week Notes Spelling out terms and clarifying the scope of the field will produce better outcomes This was the year that sustainable investing became truly entrenched in the investment world. Assets continued to move into sustainable funds. include sustainable funds in retirement plans. It is not activism.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The CISL report acknowledges that there is no universal definition of what constitutes an engagement. However, according to the reports findings, only 6% of environmental and social proposals are successful, suggesting that shareholder voting has only limited influence in the pivot towards sustainable investment.

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Jon Hale

APRIL 5, 2022

Sustainability Matters Few ESG funds exclude defense stocks or all fossil-fuel stocks From the very first days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the war has been held up as supposedly revealing “fundamental flaws” in sustainable investing. Critics seem to think sustainable investing is dogmatic, monolithic, and undifferentiated.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 30, 2024

“One key benefit of transition funds is that they have huge flexibility and a wide variety of approaches, allowing for diverse strategies that target different sectors, regions or stages of the decarbonisation journey,” Rumi Mahmood, Research Director at the MSCI Sustainability Institute, tells ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 2, 2023

Prop osed compromises will limit investors’ ability to make “critical” sustainable investment decisions. The European Sustainable Investment Forum (Eurosif) has urged investors to call on the European Commission to reconsider proposed changes that would weaken the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Difficulties in definition continue to thwart efforts to demonstrate the financial benefits of sustainable investments. Sustainable fund flows attracted US$37 billion of net new money in Q4 2022, with global sustainable fund assets reaching a total of US$2.5

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Chris Hall

APRIL 25, 2023

Further, funds with a carbon reduction objective under Article 9 can be actively managed and don’t have to passively track EU PABs/CTBs.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 18, 2024

Originally published on bloomberg.com Green finance regulatory developments The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) galvanized the energy around the global green finance agenda, setting the stage for a busy 2024 of green-related rulemaking and policy guidance for the financial services sector. degree celsius (1.5°C)

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Climate risk and resilience are largely modeled by insurance companies, looking at how a company’s assets may be affected by rising sea levels, extreme heat, increasing natural disasters and other future climate events as climate change worsens.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

According to the Commission’s definition, a zero-emission building would not generate carbon emissions on-site. Earlier this year, the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) wrote to EU lawmakers, calling for an “ambitious” outcome for EPBD-focused negotiations.

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Strategic Sustainability Consulting

JULY 13, 2022

While Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) ratings are becoming more prominent with over $120 billion funneled into sustainable investments in 2021 (more than double the $51 billion from 2020), these ratings are an imperfect effort for sharing relevant information with investors.

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Chris Hall

JULY 26, 2024

Europe’s new code – As Ursula von der Leyen mulled over the composition of her top team for the next five years , the European Commission’s incoming finance chief was already getting advice on the future of sustainable investment. Finance is an issue. But transforming and strengthening agrifood systems is essential too. “We

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2022

US SIF Foundation biennial trends reports smaller share of assets managed sustainably, due to methodology, regulatory changes. This is the first time that climate change has been the top criterion for US asset owners, applied to US$3.96 We see climate change as a predominant specific factor.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 12, 2024

The investment community may have limited control over net zero targets, but it can enable better outcomes, says London Business School Executive Fellow Tom Gosling. This is actually where I think the investment industry has generally done too little,” he insisted. And in that, he includes asset owners.

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Chris Hall

JULY 21, 2023

By navigating the complexities of SFDR, investors can reduce carbon footprints, support the transition and contribute to a more sustainable future , says Pedro Carvalheiro, Head of Capital M arkets at He avyFinance. Article 9 funds are considered the most sustainable, requiring portfolios with 100 per cent sustainable investments.

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Sense and Sustainability

JANUARY 12, 2022

As Millennials drive the trend towards sustainability and responsible consumerism across multiple areas, it is no surprise that they are also making a bigger name for investing responsibly. Key Definitions What does it mean to invest responsibly? It also includes risks related to resource scarcity (e.g.

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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 And while he used climate change as an example, the strategy is applicable to other sustainability-related issues.

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Jon Hale

JANUARY 7, 2022

End of Week Notes How Bloomberg Businessweek’s takedown of MSCI’s ESG Ratings got it wrong Sustainable investing has attracted its share of criticism lately. Further complicating matters, sustainable investing has not sprung forth as a unified, fully developed investment approach. To the contrary, this idea?—?that

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Jon Hale

APRIL 29, 2022

But it doesn’t seem to reflect what the exact same investors on the survey actually think about sustainable investing. The Schwab UK survey prompted me to look for similar evidence on what individual investors in the United States think about sustainable investing. About half of U.S. respondents? About half of U.S.

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Chris Hall

JULY 8, 2022

Supporting resilience and just transition are as important as climate mitigation, says Lihuan Zhou, Associate at the World Resources Institute’s Sustainable Finance Center. Sustainable investing is a key part of curbing climate change, and the sector is showing some signs of progress.

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Chris Hall

JULY 7, 2023

It also said that definitions of PAIs should be consistent across SFDR and ESRS. There have been longstanding concerns that there is a “sequencing” issue as the requirements for investors under SFDR came into force before the ESRS requirements for companies.

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Jon Hale

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

With so many more people investing sustainably, and doubtless many more still on the sidelines, I’d like to see 2022 be a year marked by greater transparency to minimize gaps that I think are emerging between what investors expect and how funds are actually executing their sustainable investing mandates.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 24, 2022

Both standards will require companies to disclose how they are both directly and indirectly responding to risks and opportunities, how their subsequent strategy will be resourced, and what consequent changes they expect to financial position and performance over time. . Does the fine print stand up to scrutiny? .

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2022

Assets in European impact funds increased by 50% in 2021 compared to 2020, as demand for the classification increases in the wake of greenwashing claims against funds elsewhere in the sustainable investment universe. of total European funds’ net assets currently follow an impact investing approach.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 16, 2023

The Social Climate Fund (SCF) will play a key role in supporting a just transition in Europe, but EU lawmakers have been urged to prioritise support for the most vulnerable when addressing unanswered questions about how the fund will work in practice. . There is also the difficulty of ensuring equity amongst member states,” Curran added. .

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

European Commissioner Mairead McGuinness, responsible for financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union, told this October’s EU Sustainable Investment Summit taxonomies are critical to “identify environmentally sustainable investments and to increase transparency on sustainability”.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

An announcement from EU member states on the implementation of EUDR is expected at COP28, he added. Also speaking on the webinar, Julie Gorte, Senior Vice President for Sustainable Investing at Impax Asset Management, described EUDR as one of the more “comprehensive and far-reaching tools” focused on environmental preservation.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2024

As a result, the NGO warned greenwashing – whereby funds make sustainability claims that are not backed up by the performance or impact of their investments – was a rising concern in the world’s second-largest economy.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The emissions pathways and climate policies pillars aim to inform investors about the effectiveness and performance of sovereigns in managing climate change, the report said, while the third pillar outlines the landscape of climate risks and opportunities that each country faces.

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Chris Hall

JULY 21, 2022

Sindhu Krishna, Head of Sustainable Investments at Phoenix Group, explains how the asset owner is holding managers to account. trillion of investment over the next 15 years. As Phoenix focuses more on evidence of outcomes from asset managers, Krishna would also like to see progress in how investment impact is quantified.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 12, 2024

If you read EU legislation on climate, you will find links to biodiversity, to water, the food system, to mobility,” he tells ESG Investor. “So So the integration is definitely there.” But the IRA and the Ukraine war added an incentive to speed up the transition,” he adds. “A According to the IIGCC’s Button, not overly.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Orida said that accessing data on publicly listed firms’ emissions levels continued to be a challenge ahead of regulatory mandates on climate disclosures, but said that the fund was sometimes able to access more granular data in the private markets, especially where it had a larger ownership and control stake.

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Jon Hale

MAY 27, 2022

ESG investing has grown significantly over the past few years as many more investors have become concerned about the sustainability challenges facing the world. A wave of sustainable funds launched in recent years to meet that demand, and many conventional funds have adopted ESG criteria in a more limited way.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Efficient, reliable and trusted benchmarks can cut the cost of sustainable investment, as they allow passive, index-based strategies to support sustainable investment objectives. Passive funds, she said, account for roughly 40% of all US sustainable investment assets under management.

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