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Can AI terminate climate change.or is it an even greater threat?

Corporate Knights

A ton of climate tech companies are working on solutions that leverage AI,” says Ariel Sharir, an impact investing analyst at The Atmospheric Fund. “It Many have little to do with the natural language processing and “generative” AI that can mimic Shakespeare, concoct digital art or “write” music.

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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: Impact Cubed Tools Target Greenwashing

Chris Hall

“The ESG fund boom shows that investors want to see ESG factors taken into account, but it’s tricky to provide evidence a fund does that,” said Arleta Majoch, chief operating officer at Impact Cubed. Linking our factual data to tech-enabled tools is a powerful antidote to ESG ratings confusion and concerns about greenwashing.”

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ICYMI, the Path to Net Zero is Getting Steeper

Chris Hall

Sceptics remain unconvinced , their reservations over financial institutions’ commitments reinforced by news of further regulatory crackdowns on greenwashing, this time at Goldman Sachs , accused of overstating the credentials of its green funds.

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The fight for a better tomorrow: Canada's top 30 under 30 sustainability leaders of 2022

Corporate Knights

designs user-friendly, open-source digital tools, including a phone app called Lukim Gather, that allow communities to monitor and report social or environmental issues (such as deforestation or pollution) to policy-makers. His work has catalyzed more than $500 million in impact investing, primarily targeted toward climate change.

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A Realist’s Guide to Investing for Good

Stanford Social Innovation

But if you are not willing to concede any returns from your “impactinvestments, your options are limited. We interviewed more than two dozen professionals with expertise in asset management, impact investment, asset allocation, and measurement. As a bonus, you may be able to see the results for yourself.

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New Climate Rules and Guidance for UK Pensions

Chris Hall

“We are giving schemes greater flexibility to invest in productive finance – in real assets like infrastructure and innovative businesses of tomorrow,” Coffey told the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association’s?(PLSA) PLSA) digital ESG Conference 2022.

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Sustainable investments had secretly great year

Corporate Knights

We used to be concerned about greenwashing, but now it seems that many companies are deliberately staying quiet in what some are calling greenhushing – the practice of downplaying or keeping quiet about their sustainability initiatives. Divestment is different from ESG, which is different from impact investing. 2023-06-30 U.S.