ESG Today

JULY 10, 2022

SMEs Lagging on Climate Action Due to Cost, Lack of Information: Report. European Lawmakers Defeat Move to Keep Nuclear and Gas out of Green Investment Taxonomy. K2 Launches ESG Certification for Fund Managers to Tackle Greenwashing Risk. HKEX Forms Council to Launch International Carbon Market. ESG Services and Tools.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Yet the increased level of transparency, disclosure and accountability and third-party assurance to enforce it, while good for investors, creates a range of new challenges for companies reporting ESG information and for the investors tracking them.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 6, 2023

It was supported by an informal technical expert group, and a founding partner group consisting of Global Canopy, UNDP, UNEP FI, and WWF, to develop recommendations for more effective nature-related disclosures in order to promote more informed investment decision-making.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JULY 3, 2024

As the stakes rise and the time left for action narrows, informed decision-making has never been more important. There have been bad faith actors from the corporate world, greenwashing their activities, depleting the world’s resources, damaging the environment and wasting the planet’s and the climate movement’s time and energies.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

It will also intensify its work on the effects of transition funding, green investment needs and transition plans, exploring the case for further changes to its monetary policy instruments and portfolios. These announcements followed the ECB’s third assessment of European banks’ progress on the disclosure of climate and environmental risks.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will closely monitor funds’ use of incoming green investment labels, potentially stopping asset managers from using them in the event of misuse. . Consumers need the right information to make decisions,” said Sadan. Our job is to protect consumers. International, not isolated .

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The shift from internally-defined targets to frameworks is attributed to increasing information flow and knowledge-sharing among investors about best practice and the recent updates to the TCFD’s recommendations. Seventy per cent of Asian investors report against the TCFD recommendations, while the remainder say they are considering it. “We

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Responses to the European Commission’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) consultation largely support improved definitions for green funds but are split on whether to junk existing labels.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

“Our recommendations aim to align these objectives with government policy, tracking progress, consumer protection, national and local actions, private sector engagement, and international efforts,” she said. “By carefully considering these aspects, the UK can harness the power of its taxonomy to drive sustainable and green investments while preventing (..)

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Chris Hall

JUNE 10, 2022

Rampant criticism of green investment will only accelerate its maturity. In the two weeks since our last blog, and the three since the Financial Times’ Katie Martin first tweeted about Stuart Kirk’s fêted and ill-fated climate-risk speech, there’s been an avalanche of comment on the failings and misunderstandings of ESG investing.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Country and region data refers to the head office of the issuers; for further information, please see Environmental Finance Data’s methodology. But the green gilts require an update to their three-year-old framework to improve credibility. This should crucially set a best practice to guide corporate markets.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In-scope firms are already required to publish written policies on their websites about how sustainability risks are being incorporated into their investment decision-making process and advice. However, the risk of accusations of ‘greenwashing’ and the reputational damage that can cause is real, and firms are rightly concerned to avoid this.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2023

Since January 2022, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) has required listed companies and bond issuers that have committed environmental violations to disclose environmental information on a mandatory basis, she tells ESG Investor. trillion (US$3.57 trillion) growing from RMB 18.4 trillion in 2021.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 19, 2022

Investors keen to explore Australia’s renewables potential, including green hydrogen , will be watching closely. But according to at least one informed investor, the Dutch migration to indoor farming offers a sustainable template for others, with its efficient use of water and reduction in harmful chemicals and carbon footprint.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In her confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Albuquerque expressed her position that the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) could more effectively address greenwashing risk with the introduction of a labelling regime that communicated clearly the sustainability attributes of investment products.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 27, 2025

Without a standardised framework, investment teams will struggle to determine what constitutes material ESG factors, how they can be assessed consistently, and how to ensure compliance without over or under-disclosing relevant information. of GDP from April 2027. The very concept of a net zero trajectory is being challenged.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 2, 2025

But these dropped precipitously starting in 2022, when central banks ramped up interest rates, the Ukraine war drove up energy prices, and Europe established more stringent anti-greenwash fund-disclosure rules. By the second quarter of 2024, Morningstar estimates that net inflows had dropped to US$6.3 style attack on ESG.

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