ESG Today

APRIL 21, 2024

Billion in Financing Tied to Sustainability Goals Private Equity & Venture Capital Fintech Startup Unwritten Raises $3.5 Billion in Financing Tied to Sustainability Goals Private Equity & Venture Capital Fintech Startup Unwritten Raises $3.5 to Fund Clean Energy Buildout EdgeConneX Secures $1.9

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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.

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Jon Hale

JULY 26, 2022

Sustainability Matters More capital is needed to address climate change and other sustainability issues. Sustainable investing can be a win-win for emerging-markets investors. It can be impactful, playing an important role in allocating capital to address climate change and other sustainability issues.

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Jon Hale

DECEMBER 22, 2021

End of Week Notes And 4 ways that it’s having a positive impact on the world Sustainable investing had another successful year of growth, performance, and influence in 2021. Global sustainable funds attracted record inflows in just the first three quarters of the year, while their overall assets under management approached $4 trillion.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 19, 2024

Biodiversity’s bond boom – Demand for sovereign debt is already soaring this year on expectations of falling interest rates, with France already benefiting from a twelve-fold oversubscription to its fourth green bond earlier this week. billion over four issues.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 22, 2024

In its “Investing in a sustainable future” category, the HKMA is targeting the achievement of net zero in its own Exchange Fund investment portfolio, with plans to expand its scope of sustainable investments, incorporate ESG and climate factors into investment decision making, and set ESG expectations for external managers and portfolio companies.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

To boost sustainable investment in ocean economies, the International Capital Market Association, in partnership with other industry bodies, has consolidated existing blue finance guidance and principles under one framework. As of January 2023, green bonds had raised US$2.5

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Pierre Garrault, Senior Policy Adviser at the European Sustainable Investment Forum (Eurosif), points to fund names rules published by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) – which will come into effect from 21 November. These include thresholds for funds with transition-related terms in their name.

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Sphera

JANUARY 10, 2022

Even after the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) came to a close last November, the ESG landscape still remains unclear. Environmental, Social and Governance and sustainable finance currently are like the Wild West. The question is: How soon will this change? Changing ESG Landscapes.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

To meet the critical challenge of climate change, we urgently need greater investment in renewable energy such as hydropower,” Dr Khosla said. Due to the scale of investment required, the hydropower sector needs a credible, transparent certification scheme that will incentivise the best projects.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In fact, almost 85 percent of individual investors say they are interested in sustainable investing and more than three quarters believe they can use their investments to influence the extent of climate change. Issuance of green bonds has more than tripled from 2017 to 2021.

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Chris Hall

JULY 8, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including LGIM, Amundi, LOIM, Algebris, R&M, and Banor Capital. . Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) , which has £1.42 trillion in AUM, has launched the L&G Net Zero Global Corporate Bond Fund.

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Edouard Stenger

JULY 24, 2017

Calculating the potential yields of such investments can be tricky and I am glad I got a first forray into this fascinating and booming sector. Meanwhile, my last MBA class was on Sustainable Investing with Natasha Lamb, her husband Adam and Adam Seitchick. My research for the green bonds article have shown this.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 15, 2023

Australia and New Zealand have reached an agreement to tackle climate change that will see them collaborate alongside other Pacific countries to ensure the “resilience and prosperity” of the region.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 24, 2022

Consistent data on sovereign climate risks is crucial, says Victoria Barron, ASCOR Chair and Head of Sustainable Investment, BT Pension Scheme. Green bonds provided most of the additional US$97.8 Green bonds provided most of the additional US$97.8 This compares with €28 billion in green bonds and €0.6

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Financial organisations thus have a major role to play in the decarbonisation of the global economy, yet it is estimated that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, the 60 largest banks have instead invested $5.5 Clearly much more needs to be done to pivot towards more sustainable investment and lending practices.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 8, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including CBRE, NN Group, Nuveen, Shell Foundation, Low Carbon, Brown Advisory, and Aidu. . Solutions include increasing energy access, mitigating climate change and building climate resilience.

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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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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The fixed income market totals around US$130 trillion in outstanding debt, compared to US$42 trillion in global equities, suggesting that climate-focused stewardship from fixed income investors could massively contribute to the global net zero transition. .

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 27, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including LGIM, M&G, Stewart Investors, Aviva Investors, Ossiam, Janus Henderson and Quintet. . Luxembourg-headquartered Quintet Private Bank has introduced a multi-asset, climate-neutral investment fund.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Mediolanum, KBI Global Investors, Pictet Asset Management, Invesco, Nuveen, SWEN Capital Partners and SIS Ventures. The fund aims to generate strong financial returns while addressing climate change and inequality.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 30, 2024

Ceres’ analysis was based on submissions made against the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) by institutional investors managing a combined US$60 trillion in assets – representing more than half of the global GDP. This is one area where there’s still a lot of work to do,” said Snow Spalding. “In

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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

MAY 13, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including LOIM, Pictet, AXA, Tikehau Capital, BNPP AM, Eurazeo, and Cibus Funds. . Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM) has partnered with the Alliance to End Plastic Waste to introduce a new circular plastic fund.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 21, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including DWS, T. The ESG Women for Women fund is managed exclusively by women, investing in companies that have strong social values and fair working conditions for women. “The

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including AXA Investment Managers, BNP Paribas Real Estate UK, Climate Solutions, Willis Towers Watson, Actis, and Persefoni. Before this she worked in a number of commercial real estate, residential property and student accommodation firms.

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Chris Hall

JULY 27, 2022

The basis for many of these is the EU taxonomy (and to a lesser extent China’s mandatory taxonomy for use of green-bond proceeds). China’s mandatory bond system covers six sectors it classes as green: clean energy, clean transport, climate change adaptation, recycling or resource conservation, anti-pollution, and energy efficiency. .

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including HSBC AM, RLAM, LOIM, Algebris Investments and TLEI. . HSBC Asset Management has launched the HGIF Global Emerging Markets Corporate Sustainable Bond fund.

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Chris Hall

JULY 22, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Robeco, Actis, DWS, AXA IM Alts, iCapital, and NN IP. . Robeco , a Rotterdam-headquartered asset manager, has launched the Robeco SAM Net Zero 2050 Climate Equities strategy.

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Chris Hall

MAY 18, 2022

According to the Climate Change Performance Index, India is on track to meet its 2030 emissions target, which is compatible with a well below 2°C scenario, and is also close to achieving an energy mix with 40% renewables – eight years ahead of schedule. . billion debt package for its 1.69

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The GBF’s Goal D, on implementation, contained an unambiguous commitment to aligning public and private financial flows to its overall objectives, with supporting language in the enabling targets, analogous to the Paris Agreement clauses that put climate change on the global agenda in 2015. “We

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ESG Today

JULY 24, 2022

This week in ESG news: Vanguard launches its first impact fund; Biden considers declaration of climate change emergency; Deutsche Bank appoints its first Chief Sustainability Officer; UK government given 8 months by high court to come up with a climate plan; BlackRock acquires waste-to-renewable gas company for $700 million; PepsiCo issues $1.25

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Chris Hall

JULY 26, 2023

“I got started thinking about this through responsible investment and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),” Reynolds tells ESG Investor. “We

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Invesco, Edentree, AXA IM, HSBC AM, Octopus, Brown Advisory, NEC, Tabula and Global Palladium Fund. Invesco has rebadged its Invesco UK Companies fund as the Invesco Sustainable UK Companies fund.

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Sustainability Update

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Germany, and other major economies will likely have an impact on global efforts to combat climate change. At the same time, many experts are optimistic that the use of advanced technologies and the implementation of mandatory climate disclosures will help companies make progress on their sustainability goals.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 25, 2022

British businesses with over 500 employees and £500 million in turnover join pension funds with £5 billion or more in assets – and asset managers and insurers with a premium listing – in producing an annual report that explains how they are managing the risks and opportunities presented by climate change.

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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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