ESG Today

JANUARY 27, 2025

The FCAs SDR requirements were introduced by the regulator to help investors assess the sustainability attributes of investment products, and to avoid greenwashing risk, to portfolio managers.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The report also found that greenwashing had overtaken performance concerns as the pre-eminent barrier to responsible investing. Regulators’ focus on greenwashing has also contributed to heightened transparency, as investors seek to back up their sustainability claims.”

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Chris Hall

JUNE 15, 2023

The European supervisory authorities (ESAs) and EU national competent authorities (NCAs) will need to build out their in-house resources and skill sets to effectively identify and handle instances of greenwashing by financial institutions, but greater guidance is recommended by observers rather than new waves of regulation.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The voluntary market for carbon credits has been haunted by low quality projects and greenwashing. Prices for the credits, which enable companies to. The post Carbon markets fall short as a climate solution, but go far in financing sustainable development appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The new rules form part of the FCA’s Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR), introduced by the regulator in November 2023 , aimed at helping investors assess the sustainability attributes of investment products, and to avoid greenwashing risk, to portfolio managers.

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ESG Today

JULY 31, 2022

Singapore Unveils Disclosure Rules for ESG Funds to Reduce Greenwashing Risk. Guest Post: Combatting Greenwashing. Accenture Invests in ESG Measurement Platform PulsESG. Allfunds Acquires ESG Investment Services and Analytics Provider Mainstreet Partners. ESG Reporting & Disclosure. ESG Services and Tools.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

According to the organizations, the new resource follows significant growth in recent years in investor interest in ESG issues, driving a proliferation of investment products and practices, but also leading to new terminology that can be unclear or inconsistent.

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Stanford Social Innovation

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Martin & Brandon Leppke The next step in impact investing is the Delaware statutory public benefit limited partnership, which provides clarity of definition, assuages fears of greenwashing, and harmonizes manager incentives with public good. By Frank J.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In 2023, regulatory scrutiny into funds’ aims, names and stated impact will intensify in order to direct capital more effectively toward sustainable 2050 targets and to curb greenwashing and over-promising. This year, we can expect regulations and enforcement to make greenwashing more ‘obvious’ and accordingly harder to get away with.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2022

“The ESG fund boom shows that investors want to see ESG factors taken into account, but it’s tricky to provide evidence a fund does that,” said Arleta Majoch, chief operating officer at Impact Cubed. Linking our factual data to tech-enabled tools is a powerful antidote to ESG ratings confusion and concerns about greenwashing.”

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ESG Today

JULY 1, 2024

Jenn-Hui Tan, Chief Sustainability Officer at Fidelity International said: “We have long been committed to sustainable investing and have continued to evolve our approach and capabilities in line with client requirements and ESG regulations.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In mid-September, ESG Investor and Artemis Investment Management gathered asset owners and other experts to consider the current and future state of impact investments. Appetite for impact was strong, guided by emerging frameworks, but the forces of inertia were present too, both internal and external. Setting objectives.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 29, 2023

A ton of climate tech companies are working on solutions that leverage AI,” says Ariel Sharir, an impact investing analyst at The Atmospheric Fund. “It Ariel Sharir, impact investing analyst, The Atmospheric Fund In architecture, some firms are incorporating analytics and AI into their computer-aided design platforms.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 5, 2024

The survey, released Monday by Morgan Stanley’s Institute for Sustainable Investing, was conducted in October … Continue reading Sustainable investments are still rising, so are greenwashing concerns: Morgan Stanley

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Sir Ronald Cohen, veteran venture capitalist and impact investing guru, explains why he believes we’re on the verge of an impact revolution. Last month, the IFVI issued its draft methodology for impact accounting, building on the work of Harvard Business School’s Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative , which Cohen also chaired.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 26, 2023

25 – Are carbon markets a key pillar of climate finance, or an empty exercise in double-counting and greenwashing? The post Voluntary carbon markets face a reckoning over credit quality and environmental impact appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Jan. After soaring.

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James Militzer

MAY 19, 2022

For example, fossil fuel companies have engaged in ever more blatant greenwashing , touting clean energy in their annual reports and strategies but showing little progress in changing their actual business practices. Missing information also contributes to this gap.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2022

Assets in European impact funds increased by 50% in 2021 compared to 2020, as demand for the classification increases in the wake of greenwashing claims against funds elsewhere in the sustainable investment universe. of total European funds’ net assets currently follow an impact investing approach.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 1, 2022

The UK impact investment market reached an estimated £58 billion in 2020 according to research published last month, which while representing a significant increase in total market share still amounts to less than 1% of the available assets under management. A survey conducted by the Impact Investing Institute reveals growing interest.

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James Militzer

MAY 28, 2024

Impact investing and impact measurement are booming. Despite recent challenges, impact investors manage more than $1.1 Meanwhile, the impact measurement and management of ESG, sustainability and impact investing is growing rapidly, projected to expand from a $7.6 billion industry in 2020 to $31.2

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Chris Hall

JUNE 17, 2022

Sceptics remain unconvinced , their reservations over financial institutions’ commitments reinforced by news of further regulatory crackdowns on greenwashing, this time at Goldman Sachs , accused of overstating the credentials of its green funds.

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Chris Hall

MAY 9, 2023

CEO Sam Duncan said new tech capabilities, such as artificial intelligence (AI), are needed to address the proliferation of sustainability data which is creating confusion for users of ESG ratings giving rise to accusations of greenwashing.

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B the Change

JULY 7, 2022

Indeed, one of the greatest challenges in sustainable finance is how to be sure whether an operation or investment is actually sustainable or simply greenwashing. Intentionality means that investors intend to make a positive environmental or social impact through their investments.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 11, 2023

The rules were issued for consultation in January 2022, with the aim to enhance the transparency of disclosures on sustainability-related products, improve product comparability, and guard against greenwashing. . It must also appropriately reflect this focus in its investment objectives or strategy in its registration statement. .

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In a new anti-greenwashing policy, Canadian mutual funds will no longer be able to claim the vague and oft-criticized strategy of “ESG integration” if they want to be included in the country’s official list of responsible investment funds. In a case that received a lot of attention, DWS agreed to pay $25 million to the U.S.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 4, 2023

Despite the commendable and continued efforts of the Impact Taskforce, the Global Impact Investing Network, the Impact Management Project and other trailblazers, impact investing desperately needs an indisputable reference point – a model, an exemplar, an incontrovertible template for success.

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Steven Mintz

MARCH 8, 2022

In addition to divesting from unethical stocks, you can make investments in companies that make a positive change in a practice called  impact investing. Environment, Additionally, impact investing generally gives lower returns than the rest of the stock market.  Barriers to Ethical Consumerism.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Fiduciary duty Today, pension funds are focused on how they can fulfil their responsibility of delivering attractive returns and capital preservation for their constituents, while also achieving impact. It’s about greening their portfolio, but doing it in the real world and in a way that mitigates the risk of greenwashing,” said Christ.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2023

But if you are not willing to concede any returns from your “impact” investments, your options are limited. We interviewed more than two dozen professionals with expertise in asset management, impact investment, asset allocation, and measurement. As a bonus, you may be able to see the results for yourself.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The FCA finalised the four new labels – focus, improvers, impact and mixed goals – for UK sustainability-focused funds last year as part of its work to limit greenwashing. Fund managers will be able to use them from 31 July, with disclosures required 12 months later.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The European Markets and Securities Authority (ESMA) released an analysis that noted the “absence of harmonised and standardised reporting requirements” for private sector actors against SDG targets, and concluded that most funds claiming to contribute to SDGs neither explained clearly how they aligned, nor invested any differently to non-SDG funds.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2022

These new requirements are part of a bigger push right across the economy for new standards on environmental reporting to weed out greenwashing and support our transition to a net zero financial system – for example, through our new Sustainability Disclosure Requirements ,” she said.

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Chris Hall

MAY 23, 2023

In the months leading up to Level 2, some asset managers opted to downgrade various funds to Article 8 to avoid accusations of greenwashing.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Nascent movement   Speaking at the biodiversity summit, Leo Niesel, Senior Investment Research Specialist at Mercer, affirmed that the UK’s biodiversity credit scheme would come into force next week.  There’s so much debate about it, but I think there’s a high-quality carbon credit space,” he responded.

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James Militzer

MAY 31, 2024

However, despite this positive shift in consumer investment choices, a considerable portion of these ETFs are blatant greenwashing and lack meaningful environmental impact. Green capital must be transparent: Every dollar invested should equal a quantifiable reduction in carbon emissions.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Pacifists may choose not to invest in companies that manufacture weapons. Environmentalists may choose to invest in companies that produce durable products from natural materials. Terms like sustainable investing, impact investing, and ethical investing were used to describe this activity.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 3, 2021

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