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MARCH 29, 2022

DESCRIPTION: LONDON, March 30, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Impact Cubed, a leading provider of ESG data and sustainable investment solutions, has launched new tools on its automated platform so investors can see into fund holdings, measure impact, and report to regulators. The outcome is a seamless approach to customized sustainable investing.

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ESG Today

APRIL 24, 2024

Sacha Sadan, FCA’s Director of Environmental, Social and Governance, said: “Confirming the new anti-greenwashing guidance and our proposals to extend the Sustainability Disclosure Requirements and investment labels regime are important milestones that maintain the UK’s place at the forefront of sustainable investment.

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Chris Hall

JULY 3, 2024

Fidelity International has made revisions to its sustainable investing framework to adjust to a changing ESG regulatory landscape, aiming to provide investors with greater transparency on its funds. Last year, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority added a ‘ Sustainability Mixed Goals ’ label to its Investment Labels regime.

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ESG Today

JUNE 5, 2023

Key sources of greenwashing risk identified by the regulators included claims about sustainability impact and company engagement made by asset managers, litigation risk related to misleading ESG claims made by banks, and misleading product claims by pension and insurance providers.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

FCA-hosted TechSprint aims to harness technology innovation to outpace adverse impacts of greenwashing in financial services. At yesterday’s culmination of the Global Financial Innovation Network’s (GFIN) first Greenwashing TechSprint , awards were presented based on different criteria.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Vanguard developed and promoted the Fund in response to market demand for investment funds having those characteristics. “By The suit by ASIC forms part of a series of greenwashing-focused actions by the regulator, including cases against Marsh McLennan company Mercer Superannuation and superannuation fund Active Super.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

According to the organizations, the new resource follows significant growth in recent years in investor interest in ESG issues, driving a proliferation of investment products and practices, but also leading to new terminology that can be unclear or inconsistent.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2024

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. China falls behind Greenwashing has emerged as a major problem in developed countries over the last decade with the rise of ESG-labelled funds.

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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. . Greenwashing kind of falls into that same skepticism.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 15, 2023

The European supervisory authorities (ESAs) and EU national competent authorities (NCAs) will need to build out their in-house resources and skill sets to effectively identify and handle instances of greenwashing by financial institutions, but greater guidance is recommended by observers rather than new waves of regulation.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 30, 2024

The global investment community is walking a “tightrope” between greenwashing and green blushing as it strives to stay abreast of regulatory developments that continuously ramp up accountability on sustainable investing, industry sources have sad. That pace of change is here to stay.”

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Chris Hall

MAY 19, 2023

The report said greenwashing as a key concern for asset owners, with asset managers “overstating or providing unclear messaging” on their level of commitment to sustainability. Ongoing ESG product development Cerulli observed that asset managers are continuing to develop products, sales, and marketing of ESG products.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) have issued a Call for Evidence to stakeholders on greenwashing. . The ESAs have also asked for any available data to help them gain a more concrete sense of the scale of greenwashing and areas of particularly high risk. .

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Chris Hall

JUNE 7, 2022

Asset managers should expect and prepare to be challenged on the sustainability credentials of their ESG-labelled funds as financial markets watchdogs clamp down on greenwashing, according to regulatory experts. . The SEC has also recently fined BNY Mellon Investment Adviser US$1.5

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3BL Media

AUGUST 14, 2024

It includes financial operators and other organizations interested in the environmental and social impact of investments. The Forum’s mission is to promote the knowledge and practice of sustainable investing, with the goal of spreading the inclusion of environmental, social and governance ( ESG ) criteria in financial products and processes.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

boards lose focus on ESG, say it’s not the same as sustainability; Microsoft to restart Three-Mile Island nuclear plant to decarbonize data centers; IFRS launches guide for voluntary application of ISSB sustainability reporting standards; Brookfield raises $2.4 This week in ESG news: U.S. Billion Air France-KLM Signs Deal for 1.9

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

million pounds of plastic from flights; KKR, ECP to invest $50 billion in datacenter capacity and power generation; law firms ramp up ESG training for lawyers; capital raises for sustainable heating, industrial decarbonization, energy sector emissions solutions, and more.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Research by the European regulator shows that ESG-related named fund s attract more inflows , raising concerns about potential greenwashing. Mazzacurati noted that the introduction of SFDR did lead to more extensive disclosure in investment fund documentation concerning ESG characteristics or sustainable investment objectives.

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Jon Hale

DECEMBER 22, 2021

End of Week Notes And 4 ways that it’s having a positive impact on the world Sustainable investing had another successful year of growth, performance, and influence in 2021. Global sustainable funds attracted record inflows in just the first three quarters of the year, while their overall assets under management approached $4 trillion.

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Chris Hall

JULY 12, 2024

The UK’s Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) package may have been designed with retail investors in mind, but it also has implications for the institutional market to consider. From the day the anti-greenwashing guidance rule came into effect, firms have had to comply – but what about before that?

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Impact Cubed, NatureAlpha, Sylvera, Carbon Trust, Themis, Manifest Climate and AirCarbon Exchange. Linking our factual data to tech-enabled tools is a powerful antidote to ESG ratings confusion and concerns about greenwashing.”

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The FCA’s SDR requirements were introduced by the regulator in November 2023 , aimed at helping investors assess the sustainability attributes of investment products, and to avoid greenwashing risk, to portfolio managers. The firm added that it is reviewing opportunities for further SDR label adoption in its fund range.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Investors’ growing appetite for sustainable investments now places funds marketed as ESG at more than $2.7trn in AUM. Regulators have stepped in to root out greenwashing with enforcement actions and policy-making to clarify what is a sustainable investment based on factual data and more precise fund names.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Anti-greenwashing rules and guidance may become “diamond standard”. Anti-greenwashing guidance proposed by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), as well as the promise of extending the finalised Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDRs) to pension products, has been welcomed by the investment industry.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 18, 2024

Originally published on bloomberg.com Green finance regulatory developments The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) galvanized the energy around the global green finance agenda, setting the stage for a busy 2024 of green-related rulemaking and policy guidance for the financial services sector. degree celsius (1.5°C)

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In November 2021, the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) said there is need for the global investment industry to “develop common sustainable finance-related terms and definitions” to ensure consistency.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Regulation is helping asset owners achieve their sustainable investment goals by driving corporate disclosures and honing ESG data quality, according to research from global index provider FTSE Russell.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Guest Post: Rethinking Corporate Sustainability in a World Running Out of Time. UK Regulator Targets Greenwashing with New Sustainable Investment Labels and Disclosure Rules. CDPQ Announces $474 Million Investment in Japan Renewables Developer Shizen Energy. Government & Regulators. Energy Transition.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Investment in adaptation offers significant opportunities that are yet to be comprehensively tapped,” said Rena Pulido, Head of Sustainable Investment Australia at IFM Investors, a A$221.7 It will be important for taxonomies to include adaptation to further mobilise much needed investment in adaptation,” she told ESG Investor.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

When I led Canada’s Social Investment Organization (SIO) in the early 2000s, one of our most important debates concerned the question of whether the organization should develop an industry-wide label for socially responsible investment, as sustainable investing was called back then.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

These new rules, intended to counteract greenwashing, spell out the criteria for a green investment and require market participants to disclose how they are aligned with them. The outcome is a seamless approach to customized sustainable investing. Media Contact: Arleta Majoch, COO Impact Cubed Arleta@impact-cubed.com.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The answer depends on the fund, the region, the sector, and the company. In a market that expanded before firm regulatory guardrails were put in place, there is very valid concern that some transition-labelled funds may be perpetuating greenwashing by investing in companies misaligned with credible decarbonisation pathways.

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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

APRIL 25, 2023

The EC’s responses were to questions raised by the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) on SFDR in September last year, which asked for clarification the definition of “sustainable investments” and what it means to “consider” PAIs.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Sustainable investing assets in the United States have plunged by more than half to US$8.4 trillion at the end of 2019, according to a new report from the US Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment (US SIF). Sustainable investing assets skyrocket post 2014. trillion at the end of 2021 from US$17.1

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The FCA review comes ahead of the regulator’s release of its final rules and guidance on Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and investment labels regime. The FCA is also working to implement an investment labelling system with information on the sustainability characteristics of investment products.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 14, 2022

We had developed a strong methodology of research and engagement with companies, regulators and governments for work on a range of issues. For example, we developed a significant investor presence on issues of forest land management. Do you feel corporate greenwashing has increased or decreased from the 1970s and ’80s?

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