Events, Paris Agreement and Sustainable Investment

COP29: A Milestone in Climate Negotiations and a Glimpse Into the Future

3BL Media

JANUARY 15, 2025

With representatives from various sectorsgovernments, private companies, NGOs, and academiathe event served as a platform to align diverse interests and find actionable solutions for a sustainable future. They worked in collaboration with AzerSun Holding as an official sponsor of COP29, consulting on sustainability topics and events.

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Four key lessons from the world’s top responsible investors

Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In October, the annual PRI in Person conference kicked off in Toronto with opening remarks from Luke Gould, the CEO of Mackenzie Investments, a Canadian leader in responsible investing and the lead sponsor of the event. Sustainability is more than a buzz word.

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Is Your Esg Mutual Fund or ETF Really “Green” – More Disclosure May Be Coming

3BL Media

JUNE 30, 2022

DESCRIPTION: What is it about an investable product – a mutual fund, an exchange traded fund (ETF) –that would qualify it as an “ESG,” “green” or “sustainable” investment offering to retail or institutional investors? That’s a question getting much more attention recently.

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Understanding the Crucial Role of Climate Scenario Analysis in Business Strategy

3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

As the frequency and severity of extreme weather events rise, regulatory bodies and investors are placing greater emphasis on climate-related disclosures, making it essential for companies to integrate climate considerations into their strategic planning. C by the end of the century, aligning with the aspirational goal of the Paris Agreement.

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At COP28, Influential Investors, Companies, and Policymakers To Call for Greater Global Ambition and Accelerated Action To Limit Temperature Rise and Achieve a Net Zero Economy

3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

—such as California’s corporate climate disclosure laws and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which is already delivering hundreds of thousands of new jobs and sustainable investments across the country—there is much more that needs to be done to limit global temperature rise and achieve a net zero emissions economy by 2050.

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The Future of Climate Investing

3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Climate risk and resilience are largely modeled by insurance companies, looking at how a company’s assets may be affected by rising sea levels, extreme heat, increasing natural disasters and other future climate events as climate change worsens. Clients need to vote with their money.

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Investment Firm Ramps up Clients' Sustainability Efforts

3BL Media

MARCH 1, 2022

The investment firm has spent more than two decades helping companies adopt climate-friendly business models which will continue this year with a focus on the phase-out of unabated coal generation by 2030 for developed markets and 2050 for developing markets, in order to achieve the goals, set out in the Paris Agreement.

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Biodiversity Credits Not the “Next Generation” of VCM

Chris Hall

DECEMBER 11, 2024

While the nascent biodiversity credit market has learned lessons from overstated offset claims, experts at ESG Investor s Nature Data for Institutional Investors event insisted it also represents a very different proposition – with potential to support the nature-positive journeys of corporates and governments.

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Take Five: Ready to Engage

Chris Hall

JULY 26, 2024

Europe’s new code – As Ursula von der Leyen mulled over the composition of her top team for the next five years , the European Commission’s incoming finance chief was already getting advice on the future of sustainable investment. Three agencies are organising a series of six events – dubbed the NDCs 3.0

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Where are we in the fight against climate change? An update from COP23

Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The primary outcomes of this year’s COP include: 1) the Paris Agreement Work Programme (PAWP); 2) the Talanoa Dialogue; and 3) the Pre-2020 action and ambition. SDSN served as a key contributor to the many discussions within and alongside official COP events. SDSN is especially grateful to Enel , for its support of the event.

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All Systems go for Net Zero

Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

Now they must wait to see how signatories to the Paris Agreement act on the commitments outlined in the official response to the Global Stocktake, as well as multiple other pledges announced across the two weeks before that final text was signed, sealed and gavelled. C are a degree of magnitude greater than at 1.5°C.

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Synergies and Trade-offs at the Climate-nature Nexus

Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Last weekend (9-10 December) saw a host of events dedicated to nature, land use, oceans and food systems, including a high-level plenary discussion on “the importance of action on nature in delivering the goals of the Paris Agreement”. Finding investible projects can be a challenge.

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Net Zero Progress by Firms and Governments “Still Too Slow”

Chris Hall

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Climate policy response by governments and investment in clean technologies must be accelerated to keep temperature rise near 1.5°C, C, according to industry experts speaking at Morningstar’s ‘ Sustainable Investing Summit 2023 ’. C in the Paris Agreement; with only 3% of global policies currently moving towards the 1.5°C

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Engagement Alone Unable to Resolve Energy Impasse – PME

Chris Hall

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Eight years since the Paris Agreement was adopted, the energy transition remains “stuck”, according to Spaargaren.

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An Integrated Transition

Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

“To deliver their own plans effectively, companies need clear and coherent policy settings, as well as understanding the direction of the economy and how that flows from international agreements – most notably the Paris Agreement,” he explained. Some companies may also need to tap into some form of government support.

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Policy Paramount in Driving DACCS Development

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Policy and policymakers will need to play an essential role in ensuring direct air carbon capture and storage (DACCS) is affordable and available at scale in the likely event of a 1.5°C A trio of IPR reports highlight the importance of direct air carbon capture and storage in addressing 1.5°C

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What Is Sustainable Finance?

B the Change

JULY 7, 2022

Most asset managers, especially institutional investors such as mutual and pension funds, claim to integrate ESG into their investment strategy. The numbers speak for themselves: According to the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance, over $35.5 trillion was managed for sustainable and responsible investing globally in 2020.

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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: FTSE Russell Presents Net Zero Index Series in Japan

Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including FTSE Russell, BondLink, Moody’s, Intercontinental Exchange and more. .

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Divestment Doesn’t Close Door on Engagement

Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Role of active stewardship across environmental and social themes emphasised at ESG Risk & Investment Asia 2022. . An investor’s decision to divest “doesn’t mean an end to all ESG-focused engagement with that company”, according to Eric Nietsch, Head of Sustainable Investing for Asia at Manulife Investment Management. .

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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: OS-Climate Introduced Climate Crisis Tools

Chris Hall

JULY 22, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including OS-Climate, CIPFA, Isio, ICE, Urgentum and Banca March. . The Climate Portfolio Alignment Tool will aid stakeholders in aligning portfolios at individual holdings and loan levels with the Paris Agreement temperature increase.

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Academia, Cities, and the Private Sector Gather to Discuss "Systems Transformations for a 1.5 Degree World" alongside Global Climate Summit COP25

Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 9, 2020

Degree World” was held in partnership with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) , ICLEI , and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). SDSN would like to thank Caren Camiscia, Agustina Calcagno, Caitlin Boucher, and Mario Parra for their roles of rapporteurs during the 1.5 This is a critical year.”

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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: S&P DJI Index Targets Paris Alignment for Bonds

Chris Hall

OCTOBER 1, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including S&P DJI, Impact Cubed, Apex, Sweep, K2 Integrity, RepRisk, ICE, and Confluence. . Index provider S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) has launched the iBoxx EUR Corporates Net Zero 2050 Paris-Aligned ESG Index.

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Bottom-up Engagement Vital for Sustainable Agriculture

Chris Hall

JULY 10, 2023

The ‘Sowing Seeds’ report said that despite being prominently mentioned in the Paris Agreement, the social implications of addressing climate change have rarely been taken into account to date by agricultural policy, business or financial sector responses. Further, NatWest has pledged £1.25

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Private Equity Joins the Race to Net Zero

Chris Hall

JUNE 16, 2023

However, sustainable investment continues to provide great opportunities in these times of hardship, according to Misa Andriamihaja, Private Equity Lead at the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). Put simply, the private equity market is in a challenging environment.

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Net Zero: Let’s Get Back to Basics

Chris Hall

MARCH 24, 2023

After the UN Secretary-General called for developed economies to fast-track net zero commitments by ten years, Therese Niklasson, Global Head of Sustainable Investment at Newton Investment Management emphasises the need for a collective effort.

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The Role of Sustainable Development Solutions Networks (SDSNs) in the protection of the environment

Sustainable Development Network

MAY 25, 2020

SDSN: Goals and Actions Normal 0 21 false false false DE X-NONE X-NONE The SDSN pursues to connect the world’s academic, research and knowledge-generating institutions in order to help them realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement. The offered courses are accessible online and free for all.

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On-shoring Europe’s Taxonomy: Copy or Adapt?

Chris Hall

OCTOBER 19, 2022

For example, the taxonomy is being pressed into the service of fiscal policy, being used to help allocate tax incentives for sustainable investing. Having provided the backdrop to the Paris agreement and been a key player in subsequent efforts to incorporate its objectives into policy, Europe has become used to its leadership position.

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Stewardship Nears Breaking Point

Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2023

The PRI and TAI plan to publish a report ahead of the PRI in Person 2023 event in October, which will further include a proposed calculation methodology to estimate appropriate levels of resources to both direct and market stewardship activities to have a real-world impact.

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COP29: A Milestone in Climate Negotiations and a Glimpse Into the Future

Four key lessons from the world’s top responsible investors

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Is Your Esg Mutual Fund or ETF Really “Green” – More Disclosure May Be Coming

Understanding the Crucial Role of Climate Scenario Analysis in Business Strategy

At COP28, Influential Investors, Companies, and Policymakers To Call for Greater Global Ambition and Accelerated Action To Limit Temperature Rise and Achieve a Net Zero Economy

The Future of Climate Investing

Investment Firm Ramps up Clients' Sustainability Efforts

Biodiversity Credits Not the “Next Generation” of VCM

Take Five: Ready to Engage

Where are we in the fight against climate change? An update from COP23

All Systems go for Net Zero

Synergies and Trade-offs at the Climate-nature Nexus

Net Zero Progress by Firms and Governments “Still Too Slow”

Engagement Alone Unable to Resolve Energy Impasse – PME

An Integrated Transition

Policy Paramount in Driving DACCS Development

What Is Sustainable Finance?

This Week’s Tech and Tools News: FTSE Russell Presents Net Zero Index Series in Japan

Divestment Doesn’t Close Door on Engagement

This Week’s Tech and Tools News: OS-Climate Introduced Climate Crisis Tools

Academia, Cities, and the Private Sector Gather to Discuss "Systems Transformations for a 1.5 Degree World" alongside Global Climate Summit COP25

This Week’s Tech and Tools News: S&P DJI Index Targets Paris Alignment for Bonds

Bottom-up Engagement Vital for Sustainable Agriculture

Private Equity Joins the Race to Net Zero

Net Zero: Let’s Get Back to Basics

The Role of Sustainable Development Solutions Networks (SDSNs) in the protection of the environment

On-shoring Europe’s Taxonomy: Copy or Adapt?

Stewardship Nears Breaking Point

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