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Policy Gaps Curbing Private Climate Finance Flows

Chris Hall

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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Take Five: Onwards and Upwards

Chris Hall

In both the public and private sectors, this week saw incremental progress in support of sustainable investment objectives, rather than transformative changes. This should be a big step forward to giving investors the standardised and comparable information they need to judge the sustainability performance of investee companies.

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This Week’s Fund News: Federated Hermes Partners with UK Museum on Biodiversity

Chris Hall

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Federated Hermes, SLM Partners, DIF, PGGM, MEAG and Future Planet Capital. . Each theme also considers multiple sub-themes aligned with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Least Paris-aligned Firms are Most Engaged on US Climate Policy

Chris Hall

Kendra Haven, InfluenceMap’s US Program Manager, said the intensive engagement of US utilities and energy firms illustrated a “trend that we see globally”, with the “most negatively-engaging corporate actors tend to be the most active, leaving a deficit in active, positive advocacy on climate policy by huge portions of the corporate sector”. .

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Unfinished Business

Chris Hall

“It’s good to see support for TNFD but I expect a lot of challenges to rise to the surface when we get down to implementation,” said Kit Fong Law, Principal Manager for Strategic Planning, Group Sustainability at CLP Holdings. But you’re never going to get perfect information, so you need to be able to model.

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Delays Stoke Doubt Over UK Green Finance Policies

Chris Hall

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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All Systems go for Net Zero

Chris Hall

Paul Lee, Head of Stewardship and Sustainable Investment Strategy at investment consultancy Redington, says concerns that fiduciary duty may constrain investor action on climate change or indeed ESG risks more broadly are overstated. C has not lessened; if anything, it has increased,” he says.