Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Engagement and divestment both have a role to play The engagement versus divestment debate has been ongoing in the investor community. Studies have shown that divesting really works, both to cause the stock prices of climate-damaging stocks to fall and to create additional financial value.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

At the start of 2021, leading investors openly recognize that climate change presents a massive systemic risk and a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity. With increasing public, government and shareholder attention on climate, here are three ways sustainable finance leaders will emerge in 2021. Align proxy voting with climate goals.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The influence of sustainability-minded investors can be seen in divestment strategies of both state- and privately-owned debt issuers. Divestment is typically a last resort. . Many high-emitting miners and oil and gas companies are pushing their fossil fuel assets to private markets,” says Spavieri. .

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Chris Hall

MARCH 21, 2025

Sustainable investment opportunities and risks are slowly beginning to emerge as Europe outlines its plans to rearm. 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.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Republican denunciations of sustainable investing are an absurd caricature of the industry, but they have helped to expose the confusion and lack of standardization in ESG assessments, making the industry and the money managers that rely on them vulnerable to attacks from both climate-concerned investors and business-as-usual conservatives. .

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Larry Fink, the CEO of the largest investment firm in the world, wrote in his 2022 letter to CEOs: “It’s been two years since I wrote that climate risk is investment risk. Sustainable investments have now reached $4 trillion. Dispel the myth that clean investing is about sacrificing returns. Source: CK) 1.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

We pursue a strategy of engagement rather than divestment. This introduction was hailed as a significant positive development by practitioners at the time, as it addressed the gaps and issues present in the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation framework. How does that align with your climate policy? A – Stewardship.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 30, 2022

Martin Buttle, Head of Good Work at NGO ShareAction says, given the estimates, “there is a very real chance that victims are present in the global supply chains” of investee companies. Divestment was the least selected due diligence action by both business and general respondents.

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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. Removing impediments.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 25, 2022

British businesses with over 500 employees and £500 million in turnover join pension funds with £5 billion or more in assets – and asset managers and insurers with a premium listing – in producing an annual report that explains how they are managing the risks and opportunities presented by climate change.

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