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Report: Meet the top 200 companies investing in a clean energy future

Corporate Knights

for more information. Information Technology 48. The Clean200 uses negative screens. The full list of exclusionary screens is provided below. Clean 200 Negative Screens Criteria # Excluded. Cement carbon laggards Companies in the cement industry that were divested by NBIM. Industrials 57.

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Responsible-investing trailblazer awarded Order of Canada

Corporate Knights

Over time, TCCR and other NGOs pressed for maximizing the access of shareholders and other stakeholders to information, shifting the emphasis from corporate responsibility to social accountability. The role of investors in improving access to verifiable information is also critical. Both divestment and shareholder action have a role.

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Clean 200 list shows sustainable companies on path to dominate global economy

Corporate Knights

The industrial sector accounts for 52 companies on the list , followed by information technology (32), and consumer discretionary and materials (29 each). . $10,000 invested in the Clean200 on July 1, 2016, would have grown to $29,090 by January 29, 2025 , versus $17,670 for the MSCI ACWI/Energy benchmark for fossil fuel.

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List of Clean 200 companies captures the green transition in full flight

Corporate Knights

In 2016, we created the Clean200 in response to investors saying, ‘If we divest fossil fuels, there is nothing to invest in.’” Although they underperformed the MSCI ACWI broad market index, which grew 114.4%, the Clean200 trounced the key index of global fossil fuel companies (the MSCI ACWI/Energy Index), which gained only 64.5%

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Climate tops ESG Priorities for US Institutional Investors

Chris Hall

Managers also reported applying fossil fuel divestment screens across US$1.2 Under US SIF Foundation’s definition, ESG incorporation encompasses a range of strategies including ESG integration, positive screening, negative screening, impact investing and sustainability-themed investing.

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ESG Narratives Needed as well as Numbers

Chris Hall

First was the ‘cry for help’, described as “the desire for basic information and support because they know they do not understand ESG”. The next, called ‘scene setting’, involved “numbers-orientated fact-gathering: often closed questions that force a yes / no answer, or require a number, or a label”.