ESG Today

JUNE 22, 2022

The UK government’s Department for Works and Pensions (DWP) announced today the launch of “Green Nudge”, a new three-week trial aimed at encouraging pension savers to make green investment choices and increase engagement on the sustainability of pension investments.

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ESG Today

JULY 6, 2022

The taxonomy is a classification system enabling the categorization of economic activities that play key roles in contributing to the EU’s key environmental objectives, starting with climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 2, 2023

Climate change is here. It is still possible to limit global temperature rise to 1.5C [above pre-industrial levels] and avoid the very worst of climate change. But only with dramatic, immediate climate action.” times higher exposure to green investments than the average asset manager. Neither U.S.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

Now we can measure this green business exposure for the majority of companies and are able to count annual green investments that run into the trillions, growing six times faster than the economy at large,” Heaps says. When we launched this ranking in 2005, the green economy was a quaint idea.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Inflation Reduction Act , which allocates nearly $370 billion to areas including renewable energy and industrial decarbonization solutions, as well as green investment plans recently announced by Japan, the UK, Canada and India. We have long since argued that the fight against climate change is a must.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The new investment follows BMW’s announcement in 2021 to expand company efforts to combat climate change, including goals to significantly reduce vehicle emissions throughout the lifecycle, reduce CO2 emissions by 40% per vehicle by 2030, and make a minimum of 50% of its global sales from battery electric vehicles by 2030.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

UK ministers enthuse about the post-Brexit potential to unleash a new wave of green investment, but not everybody is convinced. But Salkeld at ShareAction called for a much more active approach from the authorities to encourage this newly-released money into sustainable investments. “We

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The EU Taxonomy is a classification system enabling the categorization of economic activities that play key roles in to at least one of six defined environmental objectives, such as climate change mitigation and adaptation, and transition to a circular economy, among others, and no significant harm done to the other objectives.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 11, 2022

New report provides guidance to asset owners on closing net zero investment gap. . Asset owners should track their contributions to climate change mitigation by calculating the green investment ratio of portfolios and assets, according to a recent report by the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). .

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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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Chris Hall

MAY 31, 2024

With the UK High Court having now dubbed the government’s net zero strategy unlawful for the second time, the country is now considered a climate laggard, leaving sustainability-conscious investors rudderless. trillion (US$1.89

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Those goals also have a role to play in combatting climate change, biodiversity loss, and driving equality. Not to be forgotten, achieving those goals helps us sustain the natural capital base that underpins over half of global GDP,” says Hari. Lack of investment options. Prime ingredients for value creation.”.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

“It’s a dangerous game to play, and it is undermining investor confidence; there are certain issues, like climate change, where political games shouldn’t be played.” Matthew isn’t the only one dissatisfied with progress.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2024

In 2018, the Asset Management Association of China, a self-regulatory body set up by the sector, released Green Investment Guidelines for trial implementation. The guidelines define the concept of green investment, and set out basic objectives, principles, and methods of supervision.

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Richard Matthews

MARCH 21, 2022

While most of these firms are located in the United States, there are some serious players in Africa and Europe leads in terms of PE support for standards of responsible and sustainable investments. billion to invest in companies that provide solutions to environmental or social challenges. gigatons by 2050.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This first sustainable hybrid capital issuance by an MDB is an example of innovative efforts to finance developing economies’ efforts to handle the impacts of climate change. billion) green investment pledge.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Pension fund makes case for divestment, against backdrop of increasingly positive climate policy across major markets. In response, PME has divested from fossil fuel investments and redirected the funds towards the energy transition by focusing on solar and wind projects.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

COP27 deadline for Green Finance Strategy likely to be missed, as investors await details on sustainable investment framework. Investors are expecting details this week on the new UK government’s strategy on energy and inflation, but time is running out for updates on key climate and green finance policies ahead of COP27.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The rise of taxonomies of sustainable activities reflects a recognition from policymakers that global financial markets depend on a shared classification system if they are to identify ‘green’ investment opportunities. This dark green superhighway would run across all taxonomies.

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Chris Hall

JULY 7, 2023

Last week, the UK’s Climate Change Committee recently described government efforts to scale up climate action as “worryingly slow”.

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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 23, 2023

Credible transition plans There isn’t yet a baseline standard for an acceptable climate transition plan, which would help identify truly credible ‘brown’ companies in transition, according to Kate Levick, Associate Director of Sustainable Finance at climate change think tank E3G. This is set to change.

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Eco-Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

"Investing in companies that have a direct impact on land use is a powerful lever to mitigate climate change," said Angela Hogg, USAID's Regional Development Mission for Asia's Environment Office Director. "We

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Chris Hall

APRIL 20, 2022

The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working group III report on climate change mitigation identified carbon capture and storage (CCS) as an integral element in reducing GHG emissions across the energy sector. For emissions targets to be compliant for gas plants, CCS has to be applied.”.

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

This is the view of experts speaking to ESG Investor in response to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s 2023 Autumn Statement on 22 November, which many investors had hoped would increase certainty around the government’s climate policy ambitions following months of u-turns and rollbacks.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2023

As China’s carbon neutral by 2060 pledge spurs sustainable finance regulation, its financial institutions are calling on the government to move quickly on establishing a taxonomy and ESG standards.

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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

Kenneth Lamont, Senior Researcher at data and analytics firm Morningstar, acknowledges EUGBS is another milestone on the road towards the formalisation of sustainable investing in Europe. Another milestone Not everyone is convinced.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 2, 2025

And expect the Trump administration to reverse a Biden Department of Labor rule expressly permitting pension trustees to consider ESG issues in investment decisions. But on climate disclosure and fiduciary rights, this will create regulatory confusion more than a firm barrier to sustainable investing.

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 31, 2021

When BlackRock chairman Laurence Fink first began rethinking his company’s stance on climate change, he turned to Tariq Fancy to help him figure out what “green” investing should look like. In 2018 and 2019, Fancy was the company’s chief investment officer for sustainable investing.

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CleanTechnica

JULY 24, 2020

A United States-based group of Dominican nuns have partnered with Morgan Stanley to create an impact fund that allows the nuns to invest $110 million (other sources cite $130 million) and change the scope of how sustainable and positive investment is done. No, this is not a title from The Onion - this good news is REAL!

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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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