Corporate Knights
JANUARY 24, 2023
The document called for more study of global warming, “as a result of which glaciers and the polar caps recede, surfaces of lakes are reduced and ocean temperatures rise.” Divest now for tomorrow For insurance companies that are big institutional investors, that has also meant divesting their holdings in oil, gas and coal projects.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 13, 2020
The mere existence of these documents, and the campaigns behind some of them, represent another broadening of the conversation, a clarion call for nontraditional business players to lead, or at least not hinder, efforts to address the climate crisis.
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Chris Hall
JUNE 7, 2023
Timing and influencing the market are vital considerations for asset owners when divesting ESG assets. Since the success of the South African apartheid divestment campaign in the 1980s, investors must contend with similar pressure on other ESG issues, such as the growth of campaigns encouraging them to exit fossil fuels or tobacco.
Corporate Knights
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
RELATED: How student campaigners finally convinced NYU to divest from fossil fuels How Big Oil's spin doctors are influencing influencers Are green conservatives the key to solving the climate crisis? The researchers also surfaced confidential documents that prove that businesses work deliberately to alter academic outcomes.
3BL Media
JULY 12, 2024
On data quality, we see a great opportunity for sellers and sell-side advisors to drive value from divestments by commissioning higher-quality ESG vendor documentation. On scoping, it is becoming increasingly clear which topics should indeed be part of an ESG due diligence workstream, with the focus moving from values to value.
3BL Media
JULY 7, 2024
Data quality can also improve as sellers and sell-side advisors drive value from divestments with higher quality ESG vendor documentation. Investors continue to struggle with selecting a meaningful, yet actionable scope, to conduct ESG due diligence with receiving quality data from target companies and quantifying potential findings.
GreenBiz
JULY 22, 2020
From companies looking to select cleaner manufacturing suppliers, to investors seeking to divest from polluting industries, to consumers making choices about which businesses to patronize, one thing is clear: a reliable way to measure where emissions are coming from is necessary," they wrote.
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