Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

Achieved through marginal changes in portfolio allocations and the opportunistic divestment of just a few stocks, such reductions can be used to present an unjustifiably favourable image of the environmental credentials of a portfolio. The post Divested Interests? C ambition. appeared first on ESG Investor.

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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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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

To make things easier, Corporate Knights and As You Sow are proud to present the latest edition of the Clean200. Cement carbon laggards Companies in the cement industry that were divested by NBIM. Prisons Company is recommended for divestment by the Investigate project of the American Friends Service Committee. Source: CK) 1.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The proposal follows decisions by the pension funds to divest from fossil fuel reserve owners in their public equities portfolio in 2018, and to exclude upstream fossil fuel investments, including exploration and extraction, in their private markets investments in 2023.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In 2016, we created the Clean200 in response to investors saying, If we divest fossil fuels, there is nothing to invest in, says Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow and co-author of the Carbon Clean 200 report that accompanies the ranking.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 20, 2024

US companies are the majority, occupying 91 positions, while Canada has 9 companies present. Oil and gas companies were not considered, in an effort in line with the recent COP29 of the United Nations Climate Secretariat (UNFCCC) to encourage fast divestment from fossil fuels and resource-heavy industries.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 21, 2025

The EC presented its Readiness 2030 white paper, outlining its strategic priorities for rebuilding Europes defence capabilities, and provided more detail on its 800 billion (US$867 billion) ReArm Europe plan. As highlighted at last years Stewardship Summit , investors tread a fine line when engaging with carbon-intensive holdings.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

While investors appear to continue to focus on sustainability issues in their decision-making, the survey indicated increasing concerns about greenwashing risk, with 94% reporting that they believe corporate reporting on sustainability performance contains unsupported claims, up from 87% in the prior survey, and including 79% who said the unsupported (..)

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3BL Media

MAY 24, 2024

They are present. Teaching JA personally has been a refresher on various aspects of good financial choices and the importance of planning, budgeting, saving, and divesting. It’s been 15 years. My favorite part is seeing the curiosity in a young student. They ask questions for understanding. I never know what questions will be asked.

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3BL Media

APRIL 19, 2022

TCFD focuses on four types of climate risks that are either physical or transition risks: Chronic Physical Risks: Long-term risks that present daily disruptions, such as sea-level rise. This step will help you identify the riskiest physical locations and products to divest from and access public incentives. Want to begin ESG reporting?

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The divested business is set to operate as an independent company called Envu. Its products and services are designed to help people and planet thrive by supporting efforts to master the major challenges presented by a growing and aging global population.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This lawsuit is baseless and we look forward to presenting the facts through the legal process.” The announcement marks the latest in a series of moves in an ongoing anti-ESG movement by Republican politicians in the U.S. As long-term capital providers, we have a mutual interest in the long-term success of our portfolio companies.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Our Access to Energy business and education program helps millions of people obtain better living standards and work opportunities, and we also have local ESG commitments in the more than 100 markets we’re present in. Being an impact company CSSO: It’s not simply about the job title. There’s so much we can do.

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Chris Hall

MAY 3, 2024

For this reason, to meet their responsibilities under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), companies must ‘know and show’ where human rights risks may be present at every link in their global supply chains. Admittedly, the Chinese case presents a unique dilemma for companies that is not easily surmounted.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

Rapid transition risk, which could arise when investors shift portfolio allocations or divest from certain assets, thereby causing volatility spikes and possible clearing member defaults, which would affect the CCP. a specific commodity or type of energy contract) and the volumes of transactions (and hence earnings) decline over time.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 12, 2024

“We want them to continue to ensure immediate and effective remediation of spills, [and] we want them to exit the Niger Delta in a responsible and orderly fashion.” This includes engaging with the local communities to address past and present oil spills before exiting the region.

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3BL Media

MAY 17, 2022

“Based on detailed assessments and modelling,” offers Fleetwood Grobler, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sasol, “our 2030 target can be delivered without divestments and offsets, but through the direct decarbonisation of our existing assets.”. Swire Properties Industry: Real Estate Headquarters: Hong Kong.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

To take one example, New Jersey’s policy requires that fund managers undertake “an ESG analysis to identify and consider ESG factors that present material business risks or opportunities,” while “giving weight to such factors as is appropriate to the relative level of risk and return involved compared to other relevant economic factors”.

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Chris Hall

JULY 14, 2023

Nevertheless, MSCI will be present at the event as the world takes stock of climate action progress and assesses the policy solutions and broader innovations for addressing climate-related issues. “While most people recognise COP as a policy summit, it is crucial to understand that it has evolved into a business summit since COP21,” says Vanston.

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Just Capital

APRIL 7, 2022

“I don’t think divestment is a good idea,” he said. “It’s about taking leadership now and presenting guidelines that might help investors and others in the community understand what you’re doing,” she said. . And he sees long-term investor engagement with these companies as key to this success.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 7, 2022

Pressure to divest is commonly applied by ESG-conscious investors who no longer want to be associated with these companies or fund them. However, in practice, divestment is not the best strategy to enact change or to have a meaningful impact.

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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. In addition, non-GAAP Operating Earnings as presented in this release may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies. per share).

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Sustainability Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Work needs to be done to limit this risk and benefit from the advantages presented as companies take steps to decarbonise assets and businesses. Meanwhile, Rio Tinto has divested from coal operations and is actively investing in renewable energy projects. This July was recorded to be the hottest in 120,000 years in Australia.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 6, 2022

For ESG-aware investors, this paucity of solid information leads to questions over whether they should they wait for information flows to improve, pinning hope on further action from regulators or legislators, or divest their holdings to avoid uncertainty over the climate risks in their portfolios. They have to make that decision themselves.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

Alongside the progress of a bill in California calling for fossil fuel divestment by public-sector pensions, and the SEC’s plans for climate-risk disclosures , this new assault on greenwashing moves US policy closer to its European counterparts, where fund disclosure rules are already reshaping the market.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The results affect divestments in our portfolio.” The two metrics are rooted in the concept of ‘carbon budgets’ – which designates the cumulative amount of greenhouse gas emissions permissible to limit global temperature rise to a specific level – but differ in how they present the information.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

An onlooker to the panel, focused on stewardship, said the pension funds’ presentations, which had a focus on oil and gas majors retreating on climate pledges this year, demonstrated that companies were not listening to shareholders or avoiding the conversation until a shareholder vote was lodged on an issue. .

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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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Chris Hall

JULY 21, 2023

Even if some market players are hesitant now, Article 9 funds present a great market opportunity to align positive impact with returns expectations. Within this context, investments in the agriculture sector present a natural path to achieving sustainability goals.

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Stanford Social Innovation

JULY 31, 2023

That campaign, involving a coalition of youth organizing groups and other advocates, led the Los Angeles United School District board to divest $25 million from its $77 million LASPD budget and invest nearly $100 million into the Black Student Achievement Plan, which aims to keep Black and Brown students from entering the school-to-prison pipeline.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2023

Students are also starting to pressure their universities to divest from border and surveillance companies. Countries are already dealing with massive movement of peoples due to war and conflict, and now increasingly climate disasters from outside their borders, and within.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 4, 2024

This presents a compelling addressable market, argued Matt Christ, Portfolio Manager in Fixed Income at Ninety One. Ninety One has been among the first joiners of the World Benchmarking Alliance’s call on asset managers to review their approach to sustainable investing to ensure it does not unintentionally lead to divestment from EMs.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

With insurance companies already withdrawing or outpricing coverage in huge areas of the globe this will result in the damages models being recalculated and the folly of using discount rates to calculate those damages will be clear – the discounting to present value of damages is less relevant when they are occurring…. errr …in the present.

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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.” . In the present situation, such due diligence could have minimised their exposure to human rights risks and the costs of business disruption,” she said. .

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 12, 2022

At present, almost half of charities see it as important to focus on energy security rather than prioritising net zero, Mercer said, and those investing in energy along sustainable lines reported being more willing to take a hit to their returns. Engagement to the fore.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

According to its analysis, private equity firms have snapped up oil, gas and coal assets worth US$60 billion over the past two years, many divested by listed firms in response to the environmental concerns of institutional investors.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

This may present a problem when these companies will look to refinance – particularly through riskier tranches of debt. Some of those long-dated notes that were issued a long time ago are very valuable to pension funds and insurers to match their liabilities, so I would be surprised if divestment begins creeping in for those.”

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