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Guest Post: Traceability Data Holds the Key to Decarbonization and Green Investment

ESG Today

It is also a significant carbon emitter, estimated to account for up to 10 percent of all global emissions. Like the overall global economy, fashion is characterized by a vast, interconnected supply chain, with brands at one end and tiers of suppliers at the other.

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2025 Global 100 list: World's most sustainable companies are still betting on a greener world

Corporate Knights

Over the last five years for major global public companies, sustainable revenues are growing twice as fast as other revenues, and they now represent over $5 trillion of annual revenues for the 3,000 biggest companies that we track. With sustainable investment, its the same story, Heaps says. Canadian insurers Sun Life Financial Inc.

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Ukraine is ‘Matrix Moment’ for Climate Change

Chris Hall

The conflict has also had severe implications for the global economy and energy markets. Inflation has soared in many economies. Higher returns tomorrow on green investment projects should reward investors’ patience. In doing so, the financial system should be a means through which to lengthen societal horizons.

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From Rhetoric to Practice

Chris Hall

C target set by the Paris Climate Agreement, and clearly demonstrates that passive investing in the main benchmarks is not aligned with ESG/SDG targets, and hence detrimental to the long-term health of our planet. 1] Green Investing – risk of a new mis-selling scandal by Laurence Fletcher and Joshua Oliver, Financial Times 20.02.2022.

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Trump and the Business of Climate Change

Chris Hall

Moreover, 60% of projects and 68% of the jobs are in Republican-controlled areas , making it politically difficult to dismantle these policies entirely.