3BL Media

OCTOBER 26, 2022

“Your fiduciary responsibility as an investor needs to account for nature, otherwise you’re not recognizing the underlying value and you’re not understanding the material financial risks associated with your investment decisions,” he says.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2024

As a result, the NGO warned greenwashing – whereby funds make sustainability claims that are not backed up by the performance or impact of their investments – was a rising concern in the world’s second-largest economy. The guidelines define the concept of green investment, and set out basic objectives, principles, and methods of supervision.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 4, 2024

With China nearing peak emissions, dominating solar power installation and accelerating EV and wind turbine production, a faltering in its green investment revolution would have far-reaching consequences. As author David Wallace-Wells recently noted , “the energy transition is, at present, to a large degree, a Chinese project”.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Many firms could become reliant on TNFD-aligned products derived from investors who are not taking liability, from companies which are missing vital datasets or from firms who cannot present the data in a useable format. Dr Anthony Kirby is writing in a personal capacity and his views on this subject do not reflect those of EY.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Introduced on March 2021, SFDR outlines disclosure requirements for asset managers and other financial service providers regarding the sustainability profiles of financial products, and has been widely used as a classification system for ‘green’ investment products. In September, the Commission published a long-anticipated consultation , seeking (..)

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We Mean Business Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

Reconciliation: Ensuring the alignment of reporting with consolidated financial reporting is crucial for accurate and useful data presentation. While the road to full implementation may have its bumps, the positive engagement of companies and the early success of Taxonomy-labelled bonds demonstrate a growing appetite for green investments.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Tim Day, Investment Fund Manager at Trina Solar, explains the importance of Europe’s sustainable investment community in the growth of solar power. It’s no secret that the renewable energies industry is crucial to meeting the needs of society without harming the planet for present and future generations.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Asset managers decide to re-label existing funds as green investment vehicles for two reasons, according to Paul Lacroix, Head of Structuring at Smart Beta specialist investment firm Ossiam, an affiliate of Natixis. The first is client demand for investment solutions that are ESG-based,” he tells ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The working group noted that there was an opportunity for growth in Islamic green investment due to the rising demand for ESG investments from institutional investors as they progressively integrate ESG criteria in their investment mandates.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

There remains, however, much uncertainty about the new administration’s plans to bolster green investment flows and support the development of low-carbon power sources and energy efficiency initiatives. COP27 deadline.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

With insurance companies already withdrawing or outpricing coverage in huge areas of the globe this will result in the damages models being recalculated and the folly of using discount rates to calculate those damages will be clear – the discounting to present value of damages is less relevant when they are occurring…. errr …in the present.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 30, 2022

The environmental taxonomy must implement minimum safeguards to ensure the EU isn’t “closing its eyes to the social impacts of greening its economies”, according to Signe Andreasen Lysgaard, Strategic Advisor on Business and Human Rights at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. .

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Chris Hall

MARCH 3, 2023

According to a recent Global Sustainable Fund Flows report , passive strategies represent almost a quarter of ESG fund assets globally, but they also account for most of the most popular ‘green’ investment vehicles.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 3, 2022

The same issue is present with exchange-traded funds. 1] Green Investing – risk of a new mis-selling scandal by Laurence Fletcher and Joshua Oliver, Financial Times 20.02.2022. While many investors like the ease of use and low cost of these products, simply having an ESG label doesn’t guarantee that all is as it seems.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Green hydrogen infrastructure needs to be developed ‘hand in hand’ with renewable energy capacity, according to experts. Much of the heavy lifting of the energy transition will be done through the roll-out of renewable energy – the development of green hydrogen depends on it,” says Hervey-Bathurst. Circular argument.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Nazmeera Moola, Chief Sustainability Officer at South African asset manager Ninety One, highlighted the progress toward the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), which should be presented at COP28, but acknowledged that extended timelines provided limited immediate scope to channel private capital into adaptation projects in EMDEs. .

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Chris Hall

APRIL 20, 2022

At present, CCS removes around 40 megatons of CO2 (MtCO2) from the atmosphere, annually but by 2030 under a net zero scenario, this must rise to 1,700. The definition of a sustainable investment in the EU taxonomy, adds Hieminga, will help CCS development, as gas has been labelled as a green investment.

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Richard Matthews

MARCH 21, 2022

The list of leading impact investment focused PE firms is presented according to the SDG goals they are associated with, however, all of these firms have a set of interests that extend beyond the category of their primary concern. .

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

More positively, she said there was “an absolute wall of money that wants to be deployed” in green investments, visible with developments such as the UK pension funds’ embrace of ESG integration and decarbonisation, and this is being driven by beneficiaries who recognise the risk presented by climate change, and have a long-term orientation.

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Greek Tourism Minister Harry Theocharis presented a new strategic plan for sustainable tourism which is meant to be developed directly and in consultation with the tourism industry. He also highlighted the importance of green investments, which are at the baseline of green economic growth.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 18, 2023

Aimed at creating greater clarity and consistency on green investments, the taxonomy proposes two categories: “green” for those with the least environmental impact and “transitional” for those that will aid in the shift away from fossil fuels.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 18, 2022

At present, a fund’s name – for example, Japanese large-cap stocks – must be supported by having at least 80% of its portfolio in such assets. The US SIF, the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment, was more critical. Consistent and comparable disclosures. Areas of misalignment.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 22, 2024

That’s according to Jennifer Boscardin-Ching, a Client Portfolio Manager with Pictet Asset Management, who has seen AI become the most transformative trend in clean energy investing. So that presents interesting investment opportunities,” she said. But Boscardin-Ching said green investment and AI were closely connected.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 2, 2025

Aconsequence of this pushback came on New Years Eve, when global financial behemoths Bank of America and Citigroup left the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, one of the investment industry climate coalitions championed by the United Nations. What does this mean for the year ahead? Shareholder rights.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 24, 2023

A green wave The IRA has set a number of new green investment opportunities into motion, with around US$28 billion in new manufacturing investments already announced by October 2022. One of the “biggest areas of opportunity” lies in solar energy, according to Lazard AM’s Singhal.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Moreover, 60% of projects and 68% of the jobs are in Republican-controlled areas , making it politically difficult to dismantle these policies entirely. On a per-company basis, the average totals US$3.1

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