Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Canada is lagging in its efforts to drive private capital into sustainable investments to finance solutions on climate change and other environmental challenges. The post Canada is falling behind in global race to attract sustainable investments: Guilbeault appeared first on Corporate Knights.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

by Jeff Finkelman, Managing Director, Sustainable Investing, Fiduciary Trust International. DESCRIPTION: Climate change represents a growing source of long-term investment risk and opportunity. Inaction will increase the “physical risks” of climate change, such as extreme weather, sea level rise, and wildfires.

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3BL Media

MARCH 4, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Climate change; racial and gender diversity; stakeholder capitalism—several years ago, investment advisors might have been surprised to hear these terms come up in conversations with clients. Though it’s been around for decades, interest in sustainable investing has exploded over the past five years.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

ESG portfolios not only have outperformed traditional financial assets this year, but also a data analysis prepared by Morningstar, a financial advisory research firm, concluded that almost 60 percent of sustainable investments delivered higher returns than comparable funds over the past decade. What was once a trend is now a rout.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 24, 2023

Through this period, the top-quintile companies on sustainable investment posted median annual returns of 14% – vs just 2% a year for the MSCI ACWI. “Most investors used a diversified stock portfolio [such as the ACWI] to shelter their capital and hope for growth,” says Heaps. New incentives such as those contained in the U.S.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Global investment manager IFM Investors announced today the appointment of Maria Nazarova-Doyle as Head of Sustainable Investment. Nazarova-Doyle joins IFM from investment, pension and insurance firm Scottish Widows, where she most recently served as Head of Responsible Investments and Stewardship.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

According to a 2021 survey by Morgan Stanley, 99 percent of millennials surveyed were interested in sustainable investing, an all-time high. Interest in sustainability persisted despite the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change is the key focus.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 16, 2023

For the study, the 2023 CxO Sustainability Report: Accelerating the Green Transition, Deloitte and market research firm KS&R surveyed more than 2,000 C-level executives in 24 countries, across a broad range of industries and enterprise sizes, ranging from $500 million in revenues to over $10 billion.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

BlackRock Global Head of Sustainable Investing Paul Bodnar announced that he will be departing the firm, to join the Bezos Earth Fund. BlackRock has changed the way the financial sector thinks about sustainability. The fund has provided over 100 grants to date, allocating more than $1.6

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3BL Media

MARCH 5, 2024

The survey was conducted by Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and the Institute for Sustainable Investing. The majority of participants expressed the desire to have their investments help to advance positive environmental and social impact. 84% of individual investors “are keen on sustainable investing."

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The program targets having 30% of its budget financed through green bonds, and requires at least 37% of spending in Member States’ Recovery and Resilience Plans (RRPs) must be used for sustainable investments and reforms in areas addressing climate change, such as green infrastructure and renewable energy.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Some previously untargeted companies, brands, institutional investors and geographies will be thrust into the limelight as central problems in the battle against climate change. As a result, we can expect to see personal, political and business incentives tilt in favor of more action to combat climate change.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

For the study, Deloitte’s 2024 CxO Sustainability Report, Deloitte and market research firm KS&R surveyed more than 2,100 C-level executives in 27 countries, across a broad range of industries and enterprise sizes, ranging from $500 million in revenues to over $10 billion.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Yet many Canadian banks, pension funds, insurers and large companies still underinvest in clean energy and disproportionately invest in oil, gas and coal. Earlier this year, Canada was recognized as a “low-regulation jurisdiction” on sustainable finance by a UN sustainable investment group.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 15, 2024

Investment management firm Fidelity International announced today a new focused sustainable investment approach, targeting four systemic themes, including nature loss, climate change, strong and effective governance, and social disparities, which will drive the firm’s engagement approach towards influencing positive change.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The EU Taxonomy is part of the EU Action Plan on Sustainable Finance, establishing a classification system enabling the categorization of economic activities that play key roles in contributing to at least one of six defined environmental objectives, and that Do No Significant Harm (DNSH) to the other objectives.in

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ESG Today

JANUARY 7, 2025

According to Robeco, the firm chooses engagement themes each year through consultations with clients, its investment teams, and other external stakeholders. Ghislaine Nadaud, Senior Sustainability Investing Specialist at Robeco said: In our engagement with transition sectors, we will be not only focusing on downstream or upstream activities.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 24, 2023

Through this period, the top-quintile companies on sustainable investment posted median annual returns of 14% – vs just 2% a year for the MSCI ACWI. “Most investors used a diversified stock portfolio [such as the ACWI] to shelter their capital and hope for growth,” says Heaps. New incentives such as those contained in the U.S.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This makes their investment horizon extremely long, stretching decades into the future, to ensure they have adequate assets for their payouts and to keep contributions as low as possible for current workers. There were limitations in what the model used could show in terms of physical risks, ” an AIMCo spokesperson says. “We

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

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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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A major report published Monday says Canada lacks adequate rules around investing in an era of climate change. And to avoid any doubt, regulators should declare that climate change is indeed relevant to a pension fund’s long-term financial performance.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

The survey found that sustainability was one of several areas anticipated to see increased investment in 2024, as business leaders feel increasingly confident about future growth, with 56% of respondents reporting optimism about the outlook for their organizations, compared to only 42% in the prior year’s survey.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 1, 2023

At the GLOBExCHANGE conference, Treasury Board President Mona Fortier and Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault announced that companies wanting to supply the federal government on contracts worth more than $25 million will need to comply with new climate change requirements. C scenarios, Routledge said.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The sustainable investment community already is engaged in this effort, channeling dollars to companies with better environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices. One in every three professionally managed dollars in the United States — $17 trillion — is invested with an ESG focus. We agree that this shift is overdue.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Adam Scott is d irector and Patrick DeRochie is s enior m anager for Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health, a charitable initiative that tracks the climate strategies of Canadian pension funds and works to protect pensions and the climate by bringing together beneficiaries and their pension managers to engage on the climate crisis. .

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Reports released on COP29 ’s Finance Day by the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance (GSIA) and Taskforce on Net Zero Policy have highlighted the significant obstacles that continued policy gaps pose for investors and companies. C temperature pathway.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

DESCRIPTION: This article first appeared in Sustainable Investment: [link]. Sustainability disclosure and client demand is fundamentally changing how fund management teams operate. SFDR has had more of an impact than any other regulatory-driven change asset managers have seen in recent years. By Ian Povey-Hall.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

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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Corporate Knights

MARCH 8, 2023

But PE is well placed to lead sustainable investing. The industry is large – so large that society won’t be able to tackle the climate crisis and other major challenges without the active participation of PE firms and their portfolio companies. InBC Investment Corp.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

"We are excited to join PCAF and to support the important work they are leading to build a methodology for global banks' efforts to track and measure climate change risks," said Audrey Choi, Morgan Stanley's chief sustainability officer and CEO of the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 15, 2025

The COP29 conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, brought together leaders, experts, and stakeholders from across the globe to tackle some of the most pressing issues surrounding climate change. It brings together member states, private organizations, and civil society to negotiate and decide on global climate actions. What is COP?

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3BL Media

MAY 4, 2022

The tremendous challenges and opportunities these bring through issues like climate change, diversity, equity and inclusion, drive the strategic priorities for our organization and investment teams going forward,” said Anne Simpson, Global Head of Sustainability for Franklin Templeton. “We Major 2021 CSR Achievements.

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3BL Media

MARCH 25, 2022

DESCRIPTION: ESG in Action As climate change intensifies, so do the physical and transition risks to industries and companies. But how do investors quantify those changes? Historically, they’ve measured a portfolio’s climate impact based on its carbon footprint or weighted average carbon intensity. By Sara Rosner.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 24, 2022

Why Investing in Women is Crucial Right Now by Sallie Krawcheck of Ellevest. Sustainable Investing & Stakeholder Capitalism by Jon Hale, Ph.D Tech Savvy Millennial Investors Positioned to Thrive in the “Roaring 2020s” by David Weinstein of Dana Investment Advisors. Included in the 200th issue are : . of Morningstar.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Climate Week NYC is not one event, but a collision of more than 900 events at multiple venues across the New York metro area. Sustainability leaders in business, governments, civil society and the academic community all gathered to discuss the most pressing issues in the fight against climate change under the theme: “It’s Time!”

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

Ignoring the realities of climate change — and recognizing the disparate impacts that environmental harms have on systemically vulnerable populations — compels me to continue finding collaborative solutions and frameworks that can work for us all, the "tide that lifts all boats.". Global sustainability expert at SDG Advocate.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 19, 2021

At the same time, what is billed as an ESG investment is exaggerated. Two-thirds of what is dubbed sustainable investment comprises negative-screen funds. Excluding tobacco from a fund will not have any impact on climate change. The final third of ESG investment also is wrought with classification challenges.

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