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Tetra Pak Sustainability Report FY22: Social Sustainability

3BL Media

The climate crisis, and the necessary transition to a net-zero economy, exacerbate the risks to people across the value chain, whether in the form of lost livelihoods from extreme weather events and rising temperatures, or loss of employment from a rapid shift away from carbon-intensive practices.

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Integration of Social Issues Critical to Confront Climate Change

Chris Hall

Experts have backed United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) call to recognise the interconnectedness of environmental and social-related issues in tackling climate change. trillion between 27 March and 28 April this year, with these owners citing data challenges as the biggest barrier to sustainable investment adoption.

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The Global 100 list: How the world’s most sustainable corporations are driving the green transition

Corporate Knights

In the 2024 Global 100 ranking, the top-ranked firms allocated 55% of their investments to sustainable projects, up from 47% the year prior. That compares with sustainable investments at a paltry 17% among the broader universe of publicly traded companies with more than US$1 billion in annual revenue.

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Guest Post: Six Steps Leaders Can Take to Accelerate Their Sustainability Transformation Efforts

ESG Today

A clear sustainability business case should also be well articulated and understood by the board, management team, and employees as well as external audiences such as investors and customers. executives say their organization is increasingly focused on social sustainability. For example, the research cites, Verizon, a U.S.

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Climate tops ESG Priorities for US Institutional Investors

Chris Hall

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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This Week’s People Moves: Simpson Steps Down as CDP CEO

Chris Hall

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including CDP, Loomis Sayles, UKSIF, Built by Nature, Arcadian AM, London Pensions Fund Authority and PLSA. Prior to joining, Stevenson was Head of Business Development at Neuron Advisers, a boutique quantitative alternative investment firm.

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UK Green Labels to Raise Fund Standards

Chris Hall

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is consulting on proposals to clamp down on so-called greenwashing by, in effect, giving protected status to key terms connected with ESG-led investing. “It It is the same product protection, in a way, as that enjoyed by champagne.”. “My They are looking at it very much from a consumer perspective.”.