Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2024

Chinese asset managers are improving ESG awareness, but weak regulation means green claims often don’t match reality, says Greenpeace. Greenwashing is a growing risk in the Chinese fund management sector, as marketing of ESG products runs ahead of standards and regulatory oversight, a new report by Greenpeace has found.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The newly launched international initiative Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures is developing a risk management and disclosure framework for organizations to report and act on evolving nature-related financial risks. We need to encourage more targeted investments in nature-positive solutions that reverse biodiversity loss.

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DECEMBER 16, 2024

Investors have been in limbo for six months about the future of the regulation, which provides guidelines on the disclosures required of green investment vehicles. Therefore, replacing this current framework with actual categories with clear criteria is a possibility.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Asset managers decide to re-label existing funds as green investment vehicles for two reasons, according to Paul Lacroix, Head of Structuring at Smart Beta specialist investment firm Ossiam, an affiliate of Natixis. The first is client demand for investment solutions that are ESG-based,” he tells ESG Investor.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 9, 2024

EU markets regulator the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) released its finalized guidelines on ESG Funds’ Names earlier this year, aimed at protecting investors from greenwashing risk, and detailing minimum standards and thresholds for funds using ESG and sustainability-related terms in their names.

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Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2024

European regulators have ratcheted up efforts to eliminate greenwashing from the investment sector. End of an era I – The fight against greenwashing inched ahead with the release of final guidelines for naming ESG- or sustainability-related funds by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA).

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Negligible impact on SDGs – The need to close a massive financing gap to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is well established. Regulators are already pushing back against the risk of greenwashing with a range of fund disclosure , naming and labelling rules. billion) green investment pledge.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 6, 2023

It was supported by an informal technical expert group, and a founding partner group consisting of Global Canopy, UNDP, UNEP FI, and WWF, to develop recommendations for more effective nature-related disclosures in order to promote more informed investment decision-making.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Talks, then action – With just 15% of the Sustainable Development Goals on track, this week’s UN SDG Summit saw governments rally behind a political declaration that emphasised the need to close a yawning finance gap. Anti-greenwashing action returned on both sides of the Atlantic this week. What’s in a name?

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Inclusion of coal in green taxonomy would border on state-sanctioned greenwashing, says Christina Ng, Research & Stakeholder Engagement Leader, Debt Markets, and Putra Adhiguana, Energy Technologies Research Lead, Asia, at IEEFA. A huge controversy erupted last year when the EU labeled gas power plants as sustainable.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 9, 2022

A key amendment requires 100% of the proceeds to fund green projects, instead of 50-70% previously. This is a big step for foreign investors who are eager to invest in China’s domestic green bond market but have concerns about greenwashing—inadvertently buying ‘green’ bonds that, in fact, support non-green projects.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In fact, 41 out of the 47 taxonomies currently under development have either stated outright or implied that they aim for their respective taxonomies to be used to guide policymakers and authorities, or they are in the early stages of development and have yet to make such an intention clear.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

“Most banks’ fossil fuel policies focus on a small portion of their financing – the direct financing of new oil and gas assets – and fail to capture the vast streams of capital going to companies developing these assets.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 18, 2024

However, green bond issuances are often associated with investment-grade issuers of relatively low credit risk: developed countries, development banks, large financial institutions and corporates (they are often more likely to have the resources to develop a green bond framework and execute a portfolio of green assets).

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It also identified two possible strategies for transitioning to a more precise product categorisation system.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JULY 3, 2024

There have been bad faith actors from the corporate world, greenwashing their activities, depleting the world’s resources, damaging the environment and wasting the planet’s and the climate movement’s time and energies. Many people are cautious about the intentions of companies that have committed to decarbonization and with some reason.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2023

ING Asset Management’s new SDG Impact Strategy will provide clients with exposure to companies that contribute specifically to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), responding to strong demand for ‘dark green’ investments. ING’s smallest investment strategy has €1 billion in AuM, while its largest manages €8 billion.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will closely monitor funds’ use of incoming green investment labels, potentially stopping asset managers from using them in the event of misuse. . Regulator’s ESG head underlines need for market confidence, highlights importance of investor engagement. .

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Levick also gave oral evidence, noting her additional role as Co-Head of the UK’s Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) Secretariat, a group launched by HM Treasury to develop a framework for companies to disclose their climate transition plans, which is expected to eventually be made mandatory by the UK government.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 21, 2023

The question is how stringent Indonesia should set the transition criteria, taking into account a pressing need to not only avoid charges of greenwashing or ‘transition washing’, but also build confidence in the country’s decarbonisation pathway.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The intention is that this should help both the firms’ institutional clients (such as pension scheme trustees) and ‘end-user’ consumers (such as scheme members or retail investors) to more easily identify so-called green investments and direct their funds accordingly.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 3, 2022

While this may be true for traditional long-only markets (not withstanding that different time periods may lead to wildly different results), the question becomes a lot more complex when investing to manage environmental, social or governance (ESG) risks or to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Creating confusion.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Not least plans for a ‘loss and damage’ fund, which aims to help the most climate-vulnerable emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) cover the costs of climate change’s physical impacts. The launch of the FCLP is the most important development in relation to sustainable use of nature.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2023

For insurance companies it means they need to consider ESG and green finance issues when selling their insurance products and consider it in their asset management arm as well.” ChinaSIF estimates that the size of China’s ESG market in 2022 was RMB 24.6 trillion (US$3.57 trillion) growing from RMB 18.4 trillion in 2021.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 21, 2023

Meeting in Sapporo, Japan, Group of Seven climate ministers on Sunday committed to updating their National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans to meet the objectives of the Global Biodiversity Framework and supporting the development of national biodiversity finance plans for all signatories.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 3, 2023

trillion, prompting industry insiders to express doubt about how such a huge run-up could happen without greenwashing. This was triggered in part by stiff anti-greenwashing proposals from the U.S. European asset managers struck US$140 billion from ‘dark green’ investment category. green investment.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 18, 2023

The government of the small west African nation switched existing debt for a US$500 million ‘ blue bond ’ with a lower rate and a longer maturity, with the intention of generating US$163 million for marine conservation; the US Development Finance Corporation provided the risk insurance that secured its Aa2 credit rating.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 29, 2025

While the intention of the EUGBS is to improve standards and reduce the risk of greenwashing is admirable, the reality is its limited scope, he adds. Its prescriptive nature and rigidity, could inadvertently create friction, thus stifling the development of the sustainable debt market.

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