ESG Today

JULY 27, 2023

The launch of the new funds follows several years of significant growth in the sustainable bond market, as companies and governments have turned to sustainable bonds to help finance their climate, environmental and social commitments and initiatives.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

A clear sustainability business case should also be well articulated and understood by the board, management team, and employees as well as external audiences such as investors and customers. executives say their organization is increasingly focused on social sustainability. For example, the research cites, Verizon, a U.S.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2024

Many African nations have developed strategic road maps for growing and supporting domestic businesses, and implemented policy reforms to encourage foreign investment. In Rwanda, for example, the government and SWF Agaciro Development Fund (ADF) are supporting several innovation hubs.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Green Equity Designations 1 Nasdaq launched Green Equity Designations on the Nordic markets in 2021 in response to increased demand for sustainable investments and extensive growth in Nasdaq Sustainable Bond Markets. The platform also provides issuer-level information on UN Sustainable Development Goals allocation.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Investors limited by lack of data and tools to incorporate social factors into sustainable finance strategies due to an “overwhelming focus” on environmental issues. 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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Chris Hall

MARCH 9, 2023

Strategy looks to invest in issuers “actively” shifting towards renewables, environmentally sustainable practices. According to JPM AM, a broader range of stakeholders are now taking steps to address social as well as environmental challenges, which has helped drive the rise in interest in sustainable fixed income strategies.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Copenhagen-based Kristensen will account for regional variations in effort to deepen direct institutional relationships with sustainability-focused manager. His predecessor, Viktoria von Kunow, will now focus on developing relationships with Impax clients in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Impax manages assets worth £36.9

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 31, 2022

Sustainable investment experts predicted an even greater emphasis by investors on public policy, at a recent roundtable held by S&P Global Sustainable1 and ESG Investor. First, our roundtable participants surveyed the existing regulatory landscape for sustainable investing. Positive trajectory.

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Chris Hall

MAY 6, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including CDP, Loomis Sayles, UKSIF, Built by Nature, Arcadian AM, London Pensions Fund Authority and PLSA. Prior to joining, Stevenson was Head of Business Development at Neuron Advisers, a boutique quantitative alternative investment firm.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The final draft of the Platform for Sustainable Finance’s ( PSF ) social taxonomy proposal has been adjusted to integrate more fully with existing European sustainable finance legislation to minimise regulatory burdens. The Commission will now conduct a review of the social taxonomy in due course.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Bloomberg, Normative, Sugi, ISS ESG, FE fundinfo and MSCI. . Normative , a Swedish carbon accounting engine, and the Exponential Roadmap Initiative are developing a new emissions scoring framework.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Separate from the US$100 billion per annum in climate finance pledged by rich countries, the Loss and Damage Fund was the surprise hit of COP27 , agreed with the aim of compensating the developing countries most at risk from the physical impacts of climate change already ‘locked in’. Let’s hope it’s not just more hot air.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Today, concepts such as ‘just transition’ have moved into the spotlight as SRI has given way to ESG – and investors have developed higher expectations of investee firms’ decarbonisation strategies. Passive funds, she said, account for roughly 40% of all US sustainable investment assets under management.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is consulting on proposals to clamp down on so-called greenwashing by, in effect, giving protected status to key terms connected with ESG-led investing. “It It is the same product protection, in a way, as that enjoyed by champagne.”. “My They are looking at it very much from a consumer perspective.”.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 27, 2023

Jennifer Wu, Global Head of Sustainable Investing at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, offers five reasons why sustainable investing will matter even more in 2023. 2022 saw sustainable investing go through extensive scrutiny. And the debate on what ESG is/isn’t is expected to continue this year.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 20, 2022

The Commission has finally given us clarity on the general orientation of the RTSs,” says Victor van Hoorn , Executive Director of the European Sustainable Investment Forum (Eurosif). . This can include deployment of on-site renewable energy, building renovation, and the development of energy efficiency equipment.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Fiduciary duty is driving the growth of sustainable investing in the US. In early November, with both COP27 and the US midterm elections looming, a group of sustainable investment experts joined ESG Investor in New York to consider the evolving US regulatory landscape for sustainable investing.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2024

Standardising climate One solution to the contested nature of sustainability has been to develop global frameworks and commonly-accepted standards. We need to revolutionise the mechanics of measurement to realise the transformational potential of sustainable finance. The great convergence has been promised.

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Chris Hall

JULY 13, 2022

“We need to gather as much information as we can on gender, ethnicity and broader diversity characteristics, in conjunction with developing a process where we can take action on this information to drive improvement,” Honor Fell, Sustainable Investment Officer of the Cambridge University Endowment Fund, tells ESG Investor. .

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including HSBC AM, Invesco, BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Janus Henderson and Mirova. .

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Robeco, Morgan Stanley IM, GMPF, Impax AM, Orchard Street IM and Nuveen. . The strategies look to deliver competitive investment results and sustainable impact across listed global equities and green bonds respectively.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Invesco, Edentree, AXA IM, HSBC AM, Octopus, Brown Advisory, NEC, Tabula and Global Palladium Fund. Invesco has rebadged its Invesco UK Companies fund as the Invesco Sustainable UK Companies fund.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In recent years, social sustainability has gained increasing attention from businesses, consumers, regulators, and civil society. Social sustainability means putting people first and implementing business practices that contribute to the human dimensions of sustainable development.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The geo-political risks associated with last year’s war in Ukraine plus the current war in the Middle East has pushed the social element of ESG investing to the fore, while the impact of sanctions-screening has raised scrutiny on the social elements such as human rights and community needs still further.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 29, 2025

Kenneth Lamont, Senior Researcher at data and analytics firm Morningstar, acknowledges EUGBS is another milestone on the road towards the formalisation of sustainable investing in Europe. Its prescriptive nature and rigidity, could inadvertently create friction, thus stifling the development of the sustainable debt market.

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