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Responsible-investing trailblazer awarded Order of Canada

Corporate Knights

EE: The debate about divestment versus engagement in fossil fuels is probably more heated now than ever. MH: Choosing among responsible investment tools – positive and negative screening, divestment and engagement – is complicated. Both divestment and shareholder action have a role. What are your thoughts on that?

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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

The common use of ‘materiality’ and ‘scenario analysis’ reported by managers suggests these are already prevalent topics, while scarce mentions of ‘divestment effectiveness assessment’ or ‘enlightened active ownership’ “is consistent with the view that, in general, they are future behaviours,” the report said.

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Intent on Impact

Chris Hall

Asset owners are increasingly aware that decarbonsing their portfolios through divestment does not necessarily reduce CO2 emissions in the real world, meaning that many are open to extending or escalating engagement even when progress is frustratingly slow. Impact through stewardship.

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Take Five: Immediately and Gradually

Chris Hall

Divestment from Russian investments was a complex affair and an incomplete one. Unfinished business – Europe announced its eighth round of sanctions against Russia, following similar actions by the US, UK, Canada and Australia in the wake of the annexation of four Ukrainian territories.

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

Corporate Knights

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. Source: CK) 1. Source: CK) 1. Source: CK, AYS) 10. Source: CK, AYS) 11.

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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.’” The Clean200 uses negative screens. through those years. And that’s the big deal, says As You Sow CEO Andrew Behar, who co-authored the 2024 study. “In