Corporate Knights

JANUARY 10, 2024

Divestment is different from ESG, which is different from impact investing. Negative screening – also known as divestment – is common for “sin sectors” like tobacco, weapons and (increasingly) fossil fuels. It launched in May 2022 but failed to attract investors and closed, or “de-listed,” in June 2023.

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B the Change

APRIL 3, 2023

When environmental regulations, such as the NAAQS, come into effect, investors know it means their companies will take a hit — so, they divest. I found no difference in divestment behaviour between ESG mutual funds and more traditional funds. This sell-off can be big. of their stock in that company. But that wasn’t the case.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

While at Tufts University, from which he received a bachelor’s in international relations and economics, Dowd was involved with the school’s fossil fuels divestment campaign and interned in the Obama White House. Finding herself the only Black person in the student divestment group, everything clicked. "I

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Waste Climate Change Supply Chains Supply Chain 517