Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The evidence indicates that the oil lobbyists fund research, sit on governing boards (especially at the University of Alberta), host recruitment events and seek opportunities to influence academic curricula. The researchers also surfaced confidential documents that prove that businesses work deliberately to alter academic outcomes.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Both were speaking at a panel session on putting net zero commitments into practice on the second day of the event, hosted by the UN-convened Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) this week in Toronto, Canada. The post Investors Told to Embed Sustainability at PRI Event appeared first on ESG Investor. billion) in AUM.

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3BL Media

MARCH 10, 2022

This divestment represents a very attractive purchase price and allows us to focus on our core agricultural business and the successful implementation of our Crop Science Division growth strategy,” said Rodrigo Santos, Member of the Board of Management of Bayer AG and President of the Crop Science Division. billion U.S. dollars (2.4

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

When a responsible investor sells – or divests – from companies that are low-performing on ESG metrics, this provides an opportunity for an indiscriminate investor to buy the security in their place. His predictions are not intended to be relied upon as a forecast of actual future events or performance or investment advice.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

This overtook the Marinara dam disaster as Brazil’s most catastrophic environmental event, which killed 19 people and destroyed the village of Bento Rodrigues in 2015. The authorities and companies involved must step up as soon as possible and prevent these wholly unacceptable events.”. Disputing divestment.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The transaction includes the divestment of Bayer’s West Sacramento Biologics Research & Development site, and its internal discovery and lead optimization platform. The company assumes no liability whatsoever to update these forward-looking statements or to conform them to future events or developments. View original content here.

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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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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Pension fund makes case for divestment, against backdrop of increasingly positive climate policy across major markets. In response, PME has divested from fossil fuel investments and redirected the funds towards the energy transition by focusing on solar and wind projects.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The divested business is set to operate as an independent company called Envu. “At the same time, we can concentrate on our core agricultural business and the successful implementation of our growth strategy in the Crop Science Division.” Bayer will use the net proceeds from the transaction to reduce its net financial debt.

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Good.is: Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Harvard finally announcing their divestment from fossil fuels (after years of pressure from outside groups) earlier this year. The events we've included in this interactive history stand out as significant moments in this global movement. But this is nowhere near a comprehensive collection.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 1, 2022

Forward-looking statements reflect the company’s current expectations and projections about future events at the time, and thus involve uncertainty and risk.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 10, 2023

Additionally, businesses across all sectors can be in a state of disruption at any time due to operational changes in process or technology, corporate changes from mergers or divestments and global changes from politicians and trade wars. For these reasons and more, mainstreaming conservation into corporate operations can be challenging.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will closely monitor funds’ use of incoming green investment labels, potentially stopping asset managers from using them in the event of misuse. . Sadan also advised that in order to affect change on firms’ ESG practices, investors need to engage over the long term rather than divest investment.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 26, 2022

Aviva Investors expressly referred to divestment as a potential strategy to achieve these goals. But he said Blackrock would not pursue a divestment policy from fossil fuels, although the firm would allow clients to do so.

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Chris Hall

MAY 24, 2024

Public and private sector coordination provides the theme – and events of Nairobi, London and Rio de Janeiro the backdrop – for this week’s digest. A selection of the major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces.

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Chris Hall

JULY 14, 2023

The 2015 Paris Agreement (COP21) also played a key role in highlighting the significance of climate issues, he says; it was evident that many private players, including corporates and investors were striving to enhance their climate commitments leading up to the event. The Church Commissioners, which manages the CoE’s £10.3 billion (US$13.2

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Just Capital

APRIL 7, 2022

Listings and Revenue Karen Snow, on Monday at Nasdaq Market Site for our event, “The Strategic Imperative of the ‘S’ of ESG.” “I don’t think divestment is a good idea,” he said. To unpack them, we brought together Engine No. And he sees long-term investor engagement with these companies as key to this success.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Speaking at the event, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell noted the risks of desertification across the continent, which is claiming 4.4 Those undecided between maintaining dialogue and divesting – on financial or ethical grounds – might benefit from reading a new analysis commissioned by UK asset owner Border to Coast.

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Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It’s an annual event for the energy and sustainability crowds, the latest World Energy Outlook by the reputed International Energy Agency is out. For years, this publication was lowballing renewable energy sources. And all along independant organizations were lamenting the fact.

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Private equity investments often demand long holding periods to allow for a turnaround of a distressed company or a liquidity event such as an IPO or sale to a public. Eleven Resources for Responsible Investing Including Divestment from Fossil Fuels. Sustainable and Responsible Impact Investing in the US.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 12, 2022

De-risking in response to global events is narrowing allocations, however, with a decrease in investment to alternative markets despite there being growing interest in areas such as green energy infrastructure. Risk appetite fall. Engagement to the fore.

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Eco-Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Financial institutions need to work with emitters instead of jettisoning them to green their portfolios, said panelists at the Unlocking Capital for Sustainability event organised by Eco-Business.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 6, 2022

Meanwhile in the asset management sector, Legal & General Investment Management said it would divest from Russian sovereign debt and the manager has reduced total exposure to 0.1% of AUM or £1.3 billion. .

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3BL Media

AUGUST 3, 2022

This compares to a second quarter 2021 Net Loss of $486 million and non-GAAP Operating Earnings of $47 million, which included results of the divested fossil and solar assets. This event can be accessed by visiting [link] to register. Carbon-Free, Infrastructure & Other (CFIO) reported a Net Loss of $174 million ($0.35 per share).

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Sustainability Update

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Vogue Business reports that Ebay is also promoting secondhand fashion by holding two “Endless Runway” streaming events in New York and London, in partnership with the Council of Fashion Designers of America and the British Fashion Council.

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Chris Hall

MAY 13, 2022

Events this week underlined calls for acceleration by GFANZ Co-chair Carney. Overall, fossil fuel firms’ strategies are still too reliant on asset divestment and unproven technologies, according to a new Carbon Tracker report. Does this mean polluters’ net zero plans are now on the right track?

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Sustainability Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2023

As extreme weather events grow in both frequency and magnitude under the changing climate, decarbonisation plans need to be adapted to build resilience to these more potent extremes. Companies should evaluate the system design components which are concurrently vulnerable to extreme heat events.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 17, 2023

Fiscal non-event – Although the Inflation Reduction Act is now finding its echo in Europe, Britons are still waiting to find out what a green budget looks like. More policy action is promised, later this month, in an event dubbed ‘ Green Day ’. In Canada and Europe, the emphasis is on transition.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2023

With the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warning this week of the growing risk of significant near-term climate change impacts unless rapid changes are made, global displacement from extreme weather events looks set to grow.

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Stanford Social Innovation

JULY 31, 2023

As a sophomore, Kahlila collapsed from dehydration at a school event. For example, in 2020, the student-led group Students Deserve (a TCE grantee) supported Kahlila and other teens in advocating that the Board of the Los Angeles Unified School District shift priorities away from policing and toward investments in Black student success.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

The post IGCC Devises Climate Resilience Strategy appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

For example, an asset manager may have a limited carbon footprint and can appear to be on track to net zero by divesting its high-carbon assets, however such action is effectively passing the problem onto someone else. It is also engaging with various policy bodies, such as the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action and GFANZ.

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Chris Hall

MAY 5, 2023

Despite many pension funds declaring their frustration at laggardly transition planning in the sector, as engagement yields limited results, divestment still seems to be the hardest word. Of pensions and profits – Oil and gas profits were also in the news with higher-than-expected profits announced by BP and Shell among others.

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Chris Hall

JULY 15, 2022

TIUK said impact investors too often neglect to follow up on pre-investment due diligence, responding only after further events arise to cause concern.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Diversification or divestment are not realistic options. At last week’s PRI in Person event in Tokyo, many firms highlighted how they had already used TNFD’s LEAP approach to identify their most material risks, dependencies and impacts, with some also reporting these in annual sustainability reports alongside climate risks.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2022

Our approach is about better information and empowerment, not about divestment or directly penalising today’s high carbon emitters. The whole trustee board must be involved with climate-related decisions,” said Brendan Walshe, a member of the TPR’s investment consulting team, also speaking at the PLSA event.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 9, 2022

Any decision made to disengage or divest must be done in a responsible fashion, including scrutinising for any unintended human rights consequences.” . said Matthews, also speaking at the PLSA event. . But, long-term, this is ultimately going to speed up the transition,”?said

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