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EU ‘green’ label for gas and nuclear sparks sustainable investing crisis

Corporate Knights

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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Bloomberg Launches Customizable and Transparent Sustainable Investment Screening Tool

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Available on the Bloomberg Terminal, the solution facilitates a transparent screening process and can be used both for making investment decisions and to help clients with regulatory compliance. It can be difficult to fully understand whether a portfolio, fund or index meets your own definition of a sustainable investment.

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The rental market has a carbon problem - here's how to solve it

Corporate Knights

But what makes this development – which includes 12 deeply affordable apartments to be operated by a local non-profit – unusual is that it is hooked into a geo-exchange system. When the planets align, the sustainability investments yield meaningful emission reductions and a payoff for the owner.

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How to Guide a Conversation Around Sustainable Investing

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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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Report: Meet the top 200 companies investing in a clean energy future

Corporate Knights

All commercial investment products derived from The Clean200 require a licence. for more information. Larry Fink, the CEO of the largest investment firm in the world, wrote in his 2022 letter to CEOs: “It’s been two years since I wrote that climate risk is investment risk. Information Technology 48. Industrials 57.

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ESG investments: Exponential potential or surfing one wave?

GreenBiz

ESG investments: Exponential potential or surfing one wave? Amidst four concurrent crises — health, economic, race relations and climate — one stand-out 2020 development has been the rebound of major stock markets and, particularly, the growing performance and prominence of environment, social and governance (ESG) traded funds.

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Franklin Templeton Issues Corporate Social Responsibility Report and Broadens Goals for 2022

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We will be focused not only on our corporate sustainability efforts, which include reducing the organization’s greenhouse gas emissions and enhancing our reporting infrastructure, but also expanding our stewardship and sustainable investing practices across our global investment portfolios.” . Major 2021 CSR Achievements.