James Militzer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

According to Peru’s Ministry of Environment’s National Forest Conservation Program for Climate Change Mitigation, Peru (and the world) have lost an average of roughly 100,000 hectares of forest per year since 2006. CATALYZE Peru is on track to mobilize more than US $100 million in sustainable investment deals across the region.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Clearly there has been an explosion of interest and involvement in ESG or Sustainable and Responsible Impact Investing (SRI), especially in the last decade. At the same time, let’s also look pragmatically at the challenges for the next quarter century. And here is where it is going.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

At 28, Kurtis Layden, senior policy advisor in the Office of the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, has been a key advisor on the federal ban on some single-use plastics, taking effect in 2025. Ultimately, I hope to inspire others [so] that we can change the status quo.”. Kurtis Layden. 28, Ottawa. Pratap Sandhu.

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Chris Hall

MAY 18, 2022

Asset owners need to demonstrate more flexibility and innovation in their approach to sustainable investing, according to leading asset owners speaking at the Alpha Summit event hosted by the CFA Institute this week. . But humanity now faces serious constraints that need solutions – climate change, biodiversity loss, and so on.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

However, according to investors, greater action on adaptation is required by the government to address the steep the economic costs of climate change’s physical impacts. Disasters caused by climate change were estimated to have cost Australia US$38 billion in 2021, and are forecast to rise to at least US$73 billion by 2060.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 6, 2024

Quantum computing technology company Riverlane announced today that it has raised $75 million in a Series C funding round led by Article 9 growth equity sustainable investment platform Planet First Partners, with proceeds aimed at helping the company meet “surging global demand” for quantum error correction (QEC) technology.

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3BL Media

MARCH 1, 2022

BMO Global Asset Management (EMEA), which is now part of Columbia Threadneedle Investments, has committed to continue to prioritise engagement with companies on major environmental issues including climate change and biodiversity, as well as human rights issues and executive pay.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Nature Action 100’s Secretariat and Corporate Engagement workstreams will be co-led by sustainable investment focused organizations Ceres and the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). Dialogue between companies and investors then becomes fundamental to drive collective action.”.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Manulife Financial’s global wealth and asset management business Manulife Investment Management announced today the launch of the Manulife Forest Climate Fund, aimed at providing investors with the opportunity to invest in nature and climate change mitigation, and delivering value through carbon credits.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 13, 2022

LCIF is expected to deploy typical initial ticket-sized investments of €10-40 million to European and North American growth-stage companies innovating towards a net-zero economy by 2050 and building operating systems for climate change issues.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Last year, the UK government published a summary of responses to a call for evidence on whether pension trustees work effectively and are supported to make decisions in the best interests of pension savers.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Business Benefits of Sustainable Finance Several advantages to sustainable finance go beyond producing dividends. Here are a few of the outcomes that contribute to a company's long-term sustainability and competitiveness. Lower perceived risk can result in lower costs for financing.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 22, 2022

By Alison Fenton-Willock | Director, Sustainable Investing. I believe this is a moment of potential change in public and investor attitudes on workers and ESG. Nat Keohane ( President of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions ): Climate change is an area that needs some reasons for hope! SOURCE: KKR.

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ESG Today

JULY 1, 2022

Sustainable investment firm responsAbility and asset manager ESG Asset Management (ESG-AM) announced the launch of the Transition to Net Zero Bond Fund. As an example of the fund’s strategy, the investment firms highlighted its holdings in building materials company Holcim.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Ceres and the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) will co-lead the initiative's Secretariat and Corporate Engagement workstreams; the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation and Planet Tracker will co-lead the Technical Advisory Group. By the end of the century, 50% or more is at risk.

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Alante Capital Management is a venture capital fund investing in innovative technologies that address climate change and enable a resilient, sustainable future for apparel production and retail. Alpha Impact Investment Management Partners. Sustainability, CSR, ESG & SRI = $.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

This will require trillion of dollars and the investment sector sure has a great role to play in this. This post was written as part of my Sustainable Investing class for my MBA in Sustainable Business at Presidio Graduate School , from which I am graduating in less than two weeks.

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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 ESG integration alone is not sufficient for inclusion.

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3BL Media

APRIL 19, 2022

Jordan Locke, a recruitment consultant in Acre's Global Sustainable Finance & Impact Investing Team, sat down with Business Insider alongside a group of industry experts to discuss the current ESG talent shortage, ‘greenwashing’ and the rapid pace of change. . SOURCE: Acre. DESCRIPTION: ?Jordan

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Sustainability Update

MARCH 20, 2024

What immediate and then the longer-term trends could we be monitoring to identify sustainable investment opportunities in 2024 and 2025, and well beyond? What “mega forces” are at work today re-shaping the global capital markets and presenting investment opportunities (or, presenting risk in ignoring opportunities)?

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In recent years, impact investing has become mainstream and private equity (PE) firms are playing a key role. Despite being dismissed by some as “woke capitalism”, impact investing is a trend that is here to stay. PEs are changing systems and control processes to accommodate this shift.

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Richard Matthews

MARCH 21, 2022

This alphabetized list of PEs is composed of firms that focus on one or more of the following SDGs: Climate action, clean energy, sustainable cities and communities, quality education, innovation and infrastructure, life below water, and life on land. To illustrate, last year KKR ‘s Euro Global Social Impact Fund raised $1.3

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James Militzer

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

address these interrelated challenges, we have invested in clean energy generation through solar and run-of-river hydropower. million households while contributing to climate change mitigation goals. Photo courtesy of Rob Goodier / Engineering for Change. Tim Gocher is Founder and CEO of Dolma Fund Management.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2023

Despite growing sustainable investment opportunities across Africa, “business-as-usual” finance system reinforces funding gap. Climate finance channelled into Africa cannot be upscaled in line with a 1.5°C The Loss and Damage Fund was unveiled at COP27 and aims to compensate countries most vulnerable to climate change.

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including BT Pension Scheme, Global Impact Investing Network, Fulcrum Asset Management, S&P Global Sustainable1 and JLL. Central Banking and Financial Stability in the Age of Climate Change”.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

The report , published alongside the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2) and Proxy Impact, reviewed at least 527 shareholder resolutions filed on ESG issues for the current proxy season. The environment remains a central shareholder concern with more than 190 proposals filed, a near 20% increase on 2023.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout will trigger a ‘skyward surge’ in sustainable, responsible and impactful investing over the next 12 months, affirms the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations. ESG refers to a class of investing also known as “sustainable investing.”

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Jon Hale

MAY 6, 2022

Your investment returns may be struggling today, but your portfolio is still helping create positive ESG outcomes. Keep this in mind, too: While sustainable investing includes a range of specific approaches, no sustainable fund is going to outperform all the time.

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Sense and Sustainability

JANUARY 12, 2022

Responsible investment is most often defined as investment that promotes environmental, social, and governance elements/practices deemed as responsible , though it can also be a broader term for other types of similar investment. In other words, a positive impact is valued above financial returns.

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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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Sustainability Update

JUNE 28, 2022

by Hank Boerner – Chair & Chief Strategist – G&A Institute What is it about an investable product – a mutual fund, an exchange traded fund (ETF) – that would qualify it as an “ESG” or “sustainable investment” offering to the retail or institutional investor? That’s a question getting more attention recently.

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Chris Hall

JULY 3, 2024

Last year, it also collaborated with the CFA Institute and Global Sustainable Investment Alliance (GSIA) to provide a new resource aimed at aligning terminology used in responsible investment – such as ESG integration, stewardship, and impact investing.

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James Militzer

APRIL 19, 2023

A deeper collaboration is needed — one that recognizes the limits of public investment and the increasing appetite among private investors to engage in fast-growing EMDEs, especially in impact investing , ESG and other purpose-driven investing sectors.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 4, 2024

Latin America’s next phase of impact investing must embrace the region’s specific challenges and opportunities, says Ahmad El Jurdi, Principal at Lightrock. In recent years, Latin America has been at the core of a paradox within the global investment landscape.

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