Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In October, the annual PRI in Person conference kicked off in Toronto with opening remarks from Luke Gould, the CEO of Mackenzie Investments, a Canadian leader in responsible investing and the lead sponsor of the event. Sustainability is more than a buzz word. We buy and sell companies all the time for a variety of reasons, quite frankly.”

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Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2023

Oil and gas major Shell is under increasing pressure ahead of its annual general meeting (AGM) on 23 May, with asset owners like PGGM and the Church of England Pensions Board announcing their support for a shareholder proposal calling for the company to align its Scope 3 emissions target with the Paris Agreement. Car manufacturer Toyota is facing (..)

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2022

An investor’s decision to divest “doesn’t mean an end to all ESG-focused engagement with that company”, according to Eric Nietsch, Head of Sustainable Investing for Asia at Manulife Investment Management. . There’s ultimately a place for both engagement and divestment,” said Nietsch. “If Multi-year effort .

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Chris Hall

MARCH 17, 2023

The last act of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Cycle, which started in 2015, the summary will outline our progress, or otherwise, in fulfilling the obligations of the Paris Agreement. 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 23, 2022

Many of the communities dealing with this recent flooding have already had to deal with a range of cascading climate events in recent years. These investors know their members are experiencing extreme weather events themselves and want their money to be invested in line with the best climate science and a 1.5C

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

As with virtually all gatherings of the climate community during the COVID age, this year’s Climate Week was convened as an online event — one hosted from more than 20 countries across myriad time zones rather than its usual host city of New York. . The intention is to align its portfolio with the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Climate risk and resilience are largely modeled by insurance companies, looking at how a company’s assets may be affected by rising sea levels, extreme heat, increasing natural disasters and other future climate events as climate change worsens. They need to showcase they are having a positive impact on the climate as well,” said Free.

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Richard Matthews

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

University activists are increasingly citing the oil and gas industry’s targeting of kids in the classroom as another reason to divest from fossil fuels. The divestment solution. Divestment is an increasingly popular approach to combating the fossil fuel industry’s influence. The case for divestment is persuasive.

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

The final agreement requests parties to come to COP27 next year in Egypt with updated plans on how to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Under the Paris Agreement, countries were only obliged to update their goals by 2025. trillion in assets, have committed to divest. In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit in the U.S.,

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