Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

With the looming Paris Agreement goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 43% by 2030, nations are adopting different approaches to stimulating their green economy and encouraging sustainable investment. The UK, meanwhile, is trailing behind in terms of green investment.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The agreement marks a continued collaboration between HSBC and IFC, following the previous joint launch of the HSBC Real Economy Green Investment Opportunity GEM Bond Fund (REGIO), which reached investor commitments of nearly $540 million at final close in 2022.

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OCTOBER 26, 2023

The depth of her technical expertise and wealth of experience progressing sustainable investing makes her ideal to drive our sustainability strategy forward.” Ryan said: “Our industry has an immense role to play in improving sustainable outcomes achieved and financing the transition to net zero.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

UK ministers enthuse about the post-Brexit potential to unleash a new wave of green investment, but not everybody is convinced. But Salkeld at ShareAction called for a much more active approach from the authorities to encourage this newly-released money into sustainable investments. “We

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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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ESG Today

AUGUST 17, 2023

Before joining KKR, Lagarrigue was a founding partner in growth equity firm General Atlantic’s decarbonization-focused fund, BeyondNetZero , and Arora served as head of Macquarie’s Green Investment Group for Asia-Pacific.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Ulrika Leverenz, Head of Green Investment at H&M Group, said: “H&M Group has been engaged in climate mitigation for years and we continuously push ourselves to demonstrate climate leadership within our industry. We see that our industry is committed to tackle its negative climate impact.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The announcement marks a win for the UK’s Sunak government, which has set goals to establish itself as a hub for sustainable investment, but has come under fire for not sufficiently responding to the clean energy and industry packages launched by other major economies the U.S.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

In its semi-annual Trends, Risks and Vulnerabilities (TRV) report, ESMA notes the need for “significant public and private sector financing” to achieve the EU Green Deal objectives and support the green transformation of the economy. leading to increasing caution towards ESG investing and shareholder engagement.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

When I led Canada’s Social Investment Organization (SIO) in the early 2000s, one of our most important debates concerned the question of whether the organization should develop an industry-wide label for socially responsible investment, as sustainable investing was called back then.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Sustainalytics’ EU Taxonomy Solution provides granular data covering all six objectives and revenue, capex, and opex KPIs, to enable investors to streamline regulatory reporting and enhance portfolio monitoring and develop green investment products investment analysis.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Article 8 funds promote “environmental and/or social characteristics”, while Article 9 refers to products that have a sustainable investment objective; all holdings within a fund must be sustainable investments that meet the standard of “do no significant harm”.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 11, 2022

New report provides guidance to asset owners on closing net zero investment gap. . Asset owners should track their contributions to climate change mitigation by calculating the green investment ratio of portfolios and assets, according to a recent report by the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). .

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Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2024

It had previously been possible to launch an EU environmental opportunities fund, claiming Article 8 classification under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) , while allocating as little as 10% of assets to demonstrably green investments.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The European Commissions DG FISMA has emphasised the merits of replacing the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulations (SFDR) existing Article 8 and Article 9 labels with formal categories based on clearer criteria. InfluenceMap also reported that Article 8 funds had cumulatively invested 43.8

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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. EU regulation goes hand in hand with a decade-long trend of increased focus on green investment in the EU.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Sustainable investing assets in the United States have plunged by more than half to US$8.4 trillion at the end of 2019, according to a new report from the US Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment (US SIF). Sustainable investing assets skyrocket post 2014. trillion at the end of 2021 from US$17.1

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2023

ING Asset Management’s new SDG Impact Strategy will provide clients with exposure to companies that contribute specifically to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), responding to strong demand for ‘dark green’ investments. The funds downgraded in Q4 2022 were worth a combined €171.1

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

billion) green investment pledge. But Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves did earn applause from the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association when she recognised “the potential for private capital to finance a significant portion of the UK’s transition to net zero”.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2024

In 2018, the Asset Management Association of China, a self-regulatory body set up by the sector, released Green Investment Guidelines for trial implementation. The guidelines define the concept of green investment, and set out basic objectives, principles, and methods of supervision.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 19, 2021

Southeast Asia is establishing a green finance rulebook to bring greater accountability to sustainable investments. Balancing the needs of countries that have different ambitions to cut carbon emissions will be a major test.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 8, 2023

times more equity value in fossil fuel production companies (US$880 billion) than in green investments (US$309 billion). Green investments were calculated according to the criteria of the EU taxonomy. trillion of the assessed asset managers’ equity fund portfolios, the report found that managers hold 2.8

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The rise of taxonomies of sustainable activities reflects a recognition from policymakers that global financial markets depend on a shared classification system if they are to identify ‘green’ investment opportunities. This dark green superhighway would run across all taxonomies.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

COP27 deadline for Green Finance Strategy likely to be missed, as investors await details on sustainable investment framework. Investors are expecting details this week on the new UK government’s strategy on energy and inflation, but time is running out for updates on key climate and green finance policies ahead of COP27.

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Chris Hall

MAY 31, 2024

That is a much more compelling investment prospect than policy uncertainty and flip-flopping.” Last year, financial institutions collectively managing £1.5 trillion) wrote to Sunak, asking the government to facilitate annual investments of £50-£60 billion to reach net zero by 2050. trillion (US$1.89

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

“To protect the UK’s competitive advantage as the world’s largest net exporter of financial services, purposeful and predictable sustainable finance policy is fundamental, and can help position the country’s financial services as a global leader in green investment,” says Shipra Gupta, Investments Stewardship Lead at Scottish Widows, a signatory of (..)

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Levick added that several national entities, including the UK Infrastructure Bank and the British Business Bank plan to utilise the green taxonomy to guide investment decisions.

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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. . Regulator’s ESG head underlines need for market confidence, highlights importance of investor engagement. . International, not isolated .

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Pension fund makes case for divestment, against backdrop of increasingly positive climate policy across major markets.

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We Mean Business Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

The EU Green Taxonomy is one of the cornerstones of the EU Action Plan on financing sustainable growth and is also the foundation of many other pieces of legislation currently being implemented. Striking the right balance between robustness and simplicity is crucial.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Bloomberg, Normative, Sugi, ISS ESG, FE fundinfo and MSCI. . By giving investors a fuller picture of their impact, we want to help them make genuinely greener choices when they manage their portfolios.” .

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

“Asset managers have always been reviewing and tweaking their funds – that’s nothing new – but as ESG expands across all markets, tweaking is happening with sustainability in mind,” says Hortense Bioy, Global Director of Sustainability Research at research provider Morningstar.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In 2021, China’s Green Bond Endorsed Project Catalogue—its green taxonomy—officially removed ‘clean coal’ and fossil fuel-powered generation, including gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG), from the definition of ‘eligible green project’. The CGT does not have a legal effect and is not formally endorsed by either party.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 26, 2022

As sukuk are linked to assets that may be eligible for green and social projects, they will become vital tools to fund the UN SDGs,” said Shrey Kohli, Director, Head of Debt Capital Markets, London Stock Exchange, and Chair of the HLWG on Green and Sustainability Sukuk. Future growth potential in Gulf.

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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

JULY 7, 2023

The strategy focuses on three areas: ensuring transparency across the economy, supporting the development of market pools, and ensuring the necessary transmission channels to shift and scale up the financing of the transition to net zero.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Pushing for interoperability Although the FCA labels will help to set clear parameters for sustainable funds, the regulator’s proposed labelling scheme “does not define what is or is not a green investment”, Levick said.

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