Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Particularly timely is the release of its new ‘too-little-too-late’ scenario, which illustrates the adverse consequences of delayed and divergent climate policy ambitions globally, in which countries with net zero targets achieve them only partially (80%), while other countries follow current policies. C goalposts ).

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Finally, it incorporates quantitative metrics to ensure that producers move rapidly toward full climate neutrality and net zero impacts in other measures of environmental performance. In addition, it provides the highest level of diamond origin traceability assurance.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In both the public and private sectors, this week saw incremental progress in support of sustainable investment objectives, rather than transformative changes. First, the UN-convened Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance told us of a steepening uphill struggle, but an effective one driven by target-setting across activities and sectors.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

Alongside the TSP, the alliance has published a background document which further elaborates on its approach to, and perspective of, investment portfolio decarbonisation in the next five years. Latest iteration of the alliance’s target-setting protocol expands coverage to private markets, providing more detail on sovereign debt.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 3, 2024

Asset owners committed to net zero have outlined heightened expectations around asset manager assistance on climate-related voting and engagement. Other speakers suggested asset owners are already increasing their level of scrutiny over how managers are embedding climate considerations into their stewardship activities.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Anti-greenwashing guidance proposed by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), as well as the promise of extending the finalised Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDRs) to pension products, has been welcomed by the investment industry.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Bloomberg, Normative, Sugi, ISS ESG, FE fundinfo and MSCI. . The methodology is based on four core principles: net zero focus, completeness, reliability, and transparency.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Net zero investors do not start with a blank piece of paper. So, while it’s important to identify companies with inherently sustainable operations, products and technologies – such as renewable energy – asset owners also recognise the importance of funding the transition efforts of hard-to-abate industries. . “A

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

The UK’s Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) hit a significant milestone last week with the release of its final set of transition plan resources to help businesses mobilise finance for the net zero transition. At the end of its formal mandate, the taskforce plans to publish a document setting out a forward pathway.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Among investors, sustainable investing is evolving from negative screening toward engaging with companies. Impact investing is getting traction and, in 2022, reached 1.2 trillion in AUM, according to a report by the Global Investing Network. Sustainability trends 2023: Net-Zero roadmaps.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The document sought feedback on the introduction of mandatory asset allocation, suggesting schemes could be compelled to increase their UK investments. These partnership funds could help advance the net zero transition, boost regional economic growth, and support new technology and innovation.

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3BL Media

MAY 4, 2022

Most obviously, they can make a meaningful difference to something investors believe in, like addressing social inequities in their communities or supporting the transition to net zero. As bond shortcomings are more openly documented, issuers will have to raise their game to encourage greater participation.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is consulting on proposals to clamp down on so-called greenwashing by, in effect, giving protected status to key terms connected with ESG-led investing. “It But at least with the new regime it will no longer be possible to bury caveats at the back of fund documents,” he said. Simplified regime.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 24, 2022

“The current lack of [standardisation] poses a significant cost to asset owners and limits their ability to incorporate these issues into investment decision-making,” says the UN-convened Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA), a group of 74 institutional investors with US$10.6 trillion in assets. .

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) new bumper discussion paper on sustainable finance places a spotlight on systemic risks, which include climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, inequality and anti-microbial resistance (AMR). It notes that investors can’t diversify away from them, so they have an important impact on returns.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Arguments throughout the two weeks of COP15, largely over financing, were largely allayed at the end, but the GBF too often lacked numerical targets and time-bound commitments for a document aimed at reversing decades of over-exploitation by the end of the decade. These are signals about what needs to happen on the ground. Finance showed up”.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Grantmakers can now use the Genome Project framework to organize their grants against priority outcomes (of the 132 outcomes documented) and analyze the impact of their work on a particular issue. Fixing the S in ESG: How to move from net zero to net impact , Stanford Social Innovation Review, Jason Saul, February 2022.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 13, 2024

While most of the funds’ documentation analysed explicitly cite exclusions relating to fossil fuels and controversial weapons, none outright exclude companies linked to deforestation in their screening process.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 3, 2023

The year started optimistically, fresh off the bold and ambitious agreement in November 2021 that established the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ). Here are five trends that helped to shape this astonishing shift, as well as a look to the next 12 months as sustainable finance reimagines its future. In the U.S.,

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Politicians opposed to the incorporation of ESG risks into investment decisions have been opposing asset managers both individually and collectively, causing at least one – passive investing giant Vanguard – to quit the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative (NZAM), which has nearly 300 members globally, rather than face more pressure. .

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Chris Hall

MARCH 14, 2025

One of the first senior central bankers to flag the financial risks of climate change , he played a leading role in both the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures and the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero. But names and labels can matter, especially when applied to investment products. Whats in a name?

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

In reality, the rule is catching up to where the marketplace has been for years,” said Lisa Woll, CEO of the US Sustainable Investment Forum (US SIF). . The vast majority of the rest of the world continues to understand the fundamentals of responsible investment; they continue to not only incorporate them, but to accelerate them.

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