GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Building on previous commitments that increase green investments or restrict financing to certain high-emitting activities, recent pledges add to growing evidence that banks are taking a more holistic approach to the climate emergency. What we have given the market is an ambition that our total financing by 2050 will be net zero.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 3, 2023

To achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 , the Government of Canada has invested billions of dollars in practical efforts to lessen the effects of climate change and encourage clean economic growth. Together, a combined green and transition taxonomy can support a holistic approach to achieve a low-carbon transition.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2025

With sustainable investment, its the same story, Heaps says. That green investment is key to a more sustainable future, telling us where companies are going as opposed to where they currently derive their revenues. Sustainable capital expenditure is growing twice as fast as all other capex. CLIMATE COMMITMENTS 1.5C

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 2, 2023

While most have set net-zero targets, nearly all of the equity fund portfolios that were assessed – some 95% – are “misaligned” with the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050 that much of the world is chasing, as a tipping point in climate appears ever nearer. FinanceMap’s 2023 report analyzed $16.5 s Federated Hermes.

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3BL Media

JUNE 23, 2022

In the report, MetLife also provides information on its commitment to achieve net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the company’s global operations and general account investment portfolio by 2050 or sooner.[1] The net zero commitment applies to GHG emissions from MetLife, Inc.’s In 2022, MetLife, Inc.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

See below for the highlights of the past week, and get all your ESG news at ESG Today: Sustainability Goals, Initiatives and Achievements IKEA Invests $1.6

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ESG Today

JULY 20, 2022

Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG) announced today a series of new appointments to its regional leadership team, including William Demas as Head of Americas, in New York, Edward Northam as Head of APAC, and Chris Archer and Sam Newman as co-Heads of GIG in EMEA.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Despite progress on scaling up low carbon energy production and industrial technologies, significant barriers remain in the way of the global ambition to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 and to limit temperature rise 1.5°C,

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 3, 2025

EU climate taxonomy simplified The new rules also reduce the reporting burden under the EU taxonomy, the classification system that determines whether companies are making capital investments in line with a net-zero future. Companies are required to report under a list of hundreds of data points, which vary by company.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 22, 2023

Our new report, produced in collaboration with the Ottawa-based Smart Prosperity Institute and funded by the Trottier Family Foundation, finds that pension managers’ support for the green transition is growing but still nowhere near the pace required to meet global net-zero-carbon targets. 79000 0.14

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The plan focuses on key areas including creating a simpler regulatory framework to facilitate net zero industries, upskilling the European workforce for the green transition, accelerating access to investment and financing, and enhancing global trade cooperation for cleantech and raw materials.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2020

New research published by UK100, a group of mayors and local government leaders in late September appears to show that a “retrofit army” of nearly half a million builders, electricians and plumbers will be needed to meet the Government’s objective of becoming Net Zero by 2050. 100 billion green investment.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 12, 2023

While 2023 was not a banner year for green energy stocks, which became overvalued (see Sustainable Funds guide p. xx), preliminary data show it was another big year for investing in clean energy overall. The IEA projected that investors would smash previous green investment records, piling US$1.7

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Survey finds “disappointing progress” in new net zero commitments, but notes progress on policies by asset owners and fund managers. New Zealand and ESG investing ought to be a match made in heaven. Not proactively setting mandates ”. million people. But the report found the financial sector lagging.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Portfolio-wide commitments to net zero emissions have surged among Asian investors, according to a new study from The Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC). A total of 40% of survey respondents had committed to net zero emissions, compared with none the previous year.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2024

This turnabout has been most pronounced in the green bond market, where power utilities have, controversially, been adding nuclear energy as an option for green bonds. With this in mind, nuclear green bonds promise to help fund decades of net-zero energy for the public and years of clean financial returns for investors.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Cryptocurrencies have been condemned over their environmental record at a time when traditional investments have been rapidly moving towards greener environmental, social and governance (ESG) values. So how long will it be until crypto earns its green credentials?

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The UK’s net zero economy grew 9% in 2023 according to a new report commissioned by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), with analysis provided by CBI Economics and The Data City. 1 The total gross value added (GVA) by businesses involved in the net zero economy now stands at £74 billion.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

At a forum on sustainable finance in Ottawa this week, a parade of speakers, including Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, warned that Canada is falling behind global competitors in the race to attract the investment needed to fuel the transition to a net-zero economy. Canada is playing catch-up,” he acknowledged. “We

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Founded in 2010, Amsterdam-based SkyNRG aims to build up SAF to enable the aviation sector to meet its 2050 net zero commitment. Philippe Lacamp, CEO of SkyNRG, said: “It is critical that SAF production capacity is developed now to enable the aviation industry to meet its net-zero goals.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Total put an impressive 34% of its total investment capital into sustainable projects – up from 26% in 2021. BP, in second place, directed 26% of its investments to green activities in 2022, up from 19%. Shell took third place, with 19%, but quintupled its green investments (in wind, solar, hydrogen and EV charging) over 2021.

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ESG Today

JULY 19, 2022

Macquarie Asset Management’s Green Investment Group (GIG) announced today an investment in US-based renewable energy development platform Galehead Development, aimed at helping the company advance 6 GW of renewable energy projects and commercialize its geospatial and land analytics platform. for the energy transition.

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ESG Today

MAY 11, 2023

For the report, the latest edition of the MSCI Net-Zero Tracker, MSCI assessed the climate change progress of companies within the MSCI All Country World Investable Market Index (ACWI IMI), and included data from its “Implied Temperature Rise” metric. Click here to access the MSCI report.

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2023

9 Read more about MetLife's Net Zero commitment. 1 Represents responsible investments managed by MIM at estimated fair value as of December 31, 2022. 2 For definitions of responsible investments, impact investments and green investments, please see pages 96 and 97 of the Sustainability Report PDF.

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ESG Today

JUNE 13, 2023

Macquarie Asset Management’s Green Investment Group (GIG) announced a $250 million investment in sustainability-focused specialty finance company Galway Sustainable Capital. ” Galway focuses on modular, distributed, and localized projects with a typical individual investment of up to $50 million.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 7, 2023

The European Union, China, the United Kingdom and about 20 other countries are developing such taxonomies as a way of discouraging greenwashing and channelling investment to the climate transition. The EU’s taxonomy has been particularly controversial because of its inclusion of natural gas and nuclear as “green investments.”

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

TVA aims to achieve net-zero emissions generation by 2050. This solar farm is a historic moment in TVA history," said Doug Perry, Senior Vice President, TVA Commercial Energy Solutions, adding: "It's the first Green Invest project to come online, and it demonstrates the value of TVA's focus on cleaner energy.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In the race to net zero, Victoria Judd, Counsel at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, explains how the US is lapping the UK and EU in stimulating its green economy. The UK, meanwhile, is trailing behind in terms of green investment. A good example of this is sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) investment.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 26, 2023

She has also held senior global research, risk management and product development roles at firms including Amundi, Aviva Investors, Credit Agricole and JP Morgan, and founded ESG investment research and analytics firm Global Green Investments.

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3BL Media

MAY 17, 2022

The financial system is increasingly seen as crucial to averting such a scenario – not only to shift toward green investments, like renewable energy, but also to reallocate capital from fossil fuel-related investments to be consistent with net-zero goals.

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ESG Today

JULY 10, 2022

Pfizer Announces 2040 Net Zero Commitment. SLC Management Commits $139 Billion Portfolio to Net Zero by 2050. European Lawmakers Defeat Move to Keep Nuclear and Gas out of Green Investment Taxonomy. abrdn Launches Sustainable Index Series in MyFolio Investment Product Range. Sustainable Finance.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

Now we can measure this green business exposure for the majority of companies and are able to count annual green investments that run into the trillions, growing six times faster than the economy at large,” Heaps says. “We did the best job possible with limited qualitative corporate disclosure.” “Now CLIMATE COMMITMENTS 1.5˚C

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Tan Su Shan, Group Head of Institutional Banking at DBS, said: “Accelerating net zero for supply chains requires the rapid scaling of low-carbon technologies and new, innovative financing models to drive adoption. The collaborative finance tool is a prime example of how we can create impact for suppliers.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The acquisition follows the recent announcement by Macquarie that the firm’s green infrastructure and energy transition-focused investment platform, Green Investment Group (GIG), will operate as part of Macquarie Asset Management, citing the substantial growth in opportunities and investment appetite in GIG’s areas of focus.

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ESG Today

JUNE 22, 2022

The UK government’s Department for Works and Pensions (DWP) announced today the launch of “Green Nudge”, a new three-week trial aimed at encouraging pension savers to make green investment choices and increase engagement on the sustainability of pension investments.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

VCM has helped fund and facilitate significant green investment initiatives. Carbon credits are a pivotal tool in facilitating transition to net zero. Retail trading apps, such as ORA Carbon, are beginning to change this granting direct access to the market and the ability to buy, hold and sell carbon credits.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2023

A new report from energy consultancy Cornwall Insight has set out a range of regulation and policy changes the government could examine if it wants to avoid a slowdown or stalling of business investment in decarbonisation. Coupled with deterrents for carbon-intensive practices, these could be used as part of a ‘carrot and stick’ approach.

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