ESG Today

OCTOBER 9, 2024

EU markets regulator the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) released its finalized guidelines on ESG Funds’ Names earlier this year, aimed at protecting investors from greenwashing risk, and detailing minimum standards and thresholds for funds using ESG and sustainability-related terms in their names.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JULY 3, 2024

Scientists have warned rising temperatures, exacerbated by climate change, are becoming a public health hazard for a region home to more than 30 million people. Climate change is here, changing where and how we live and restricting the ability of communities, governments and businesses to operate.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The European Markets and Securities Authority (ESMA) released an analysis that noted the “absence of harmonised and standardised reporting requirements” for private sector actors against SDG targets, and concluded that most funds claiming to contribute to SDGs neither explained clearly how they aligned, nor invested any differently to non-SDG funds.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

It will also intensify its work on the effects of transition funding, green investment needs and transition plans, exploring the case for further changes to its monetary policy instruments and portfolios. These announcements followed the ECB’s third assessment of European banks’ progress on the disclosure of climate and environmental risks.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 10, 2022

Rampant criticism of green investment will only accelerate its maturity. In the two weeks since our last blog, and the three since the Financial Times’ Katie Martin first tweeted about Stuart Kirk’s fêted and ill-fated climate-risk speech, there’s been an avalanche of comment on the failings and misunderstandings of ESG investing.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Portfolio-wide commitments to net zero emissions have surged among Asian investors, according to a new study from The Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC). In 2020, one third of correspondents identified the lack of clear definitions for low carbon or green investment as a top barrier; in 2021 this had fallen to 20%.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) was challenged during a parliamentary hearing on Wednesday, on the grounds that funds adhering to the regulator’s proposed rules for sustainability labels may be able to hold fossil fuel firms, some of which have recently rowed back on climate commitments. This is set to change.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The aims of the UN’s Climate Action Pathway for Finance , published in advance of COP26 last year, are nothing if not ambitious. By 2050, its vision is for asset managers to have adjusted their business models to ensure that every financial decision takes climate change into account.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Not only did it set the tone for a wide range of adaptation initiatives throughout COP27, by focusing attention on the Global South it changed the narrative of climate diplomacy, helping to pave the way for the loss and damage fund , the proceeds of which will ultimately bolster physical defences against climate change. .

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 19, 2022

Much will depend on the newly-empowered Climate Change Authority , which has already called for a National Carbon Market Strategy. Investors keen to explore Australia’s renewables potential, including green hydrogen , will be watching closely. Not if the SEC has its way.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2023

The world cannot win the fight against climate change without China successfully transitioning to a low-carbon economy, with it accounting for 27% of global carbon dioxide and a third of the world’s greenhouse gases, according to the World Bank. ChinaSIF estimates that the size of China’s ESG market in 2022 was RMB 24.6

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 18, 2023

Not only does it echo an Australian ruling from 2021 which ruled that governments have a duty of care to protect young people from the impacts of climate change. US sustainable investment non-profit Ceres remarked on its rapid economic impact, pointing to the creation of 170,000 green jobs already.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 29, 2025

While the intention of the EUGBS is to improve standards and reduce the risk of greenwashing is admirable, the reality is its limited scope, he adds. Tatjana Greil-Castro, Co-head of Public Markets at asset manager Muzinich, notes there are only so many green investments that companies can do in a year.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 2, 2025

Expect continued growth of sustainable finance assets by these investors in 2025, especially by pension funds weighing the evolving risks of heat, floods and storms and economic transformations from climate change. By the second quarter of 2024, Morningstar estimates that net inflows had dropped to US$6.3

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CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

T&E does not support the criteria under consideration for aviation, as it greenwashes the aircraft manufacturing’s legacy business and provides no incentives for genuinely green investments. Airbus, the EU’s main aircraft manufacturer, was co-drafting criteria for its own products.

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 9, 2023

The green investments about which BP brags represent only a minor portion of its current energy production and investment behavior. The rest continues to be targeted for its big profit oil and gas holdings.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

COIN offers a digital impact investing platform that allows investors to put their money into sustainable and social Impact Areas, and promises to make Impact Investing easier for everyone. However, when I dug in deeper, I wondered where exactly the impact was in my investment.

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