Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 9, 2020

Defining Metrics: Ensuring Impact for Sustainable Development Perrine Toledano, Head of Extractive Industries at the Columbia University Center on Sustainable Investment moderated this session, emphasizing the lack of standardized sustainability metrics and the extent to which this delays progress on the SDGs.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 30, 2024

“This report highlights improving climate-related actions and disclosures taken by many of the largest North American investors,” said Travis Antoniono, Investment Director in CalPERS’ sustainable investments team. “[We

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2024

Greenwashing is a growing risk in the Chinese fund management sector, as marketing of ESG products runs ahead of standards and regulatory oversight, a new report by Greenpeace has found. China falls behind Greenwashing has emerged as a major problem in developed countries over the last decade with the rise of ESG-labelled funds.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 7, 2022

Asset managers should expect and prepare to be challenged on the sustainability credentials of their ESG-labelled funds as financial markets watchdogs clamp down on greenwashing, according to regulatory experts. . The SEC has also recently fined BNY Mellon Investment Adviser US$1.5

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 1, 2024

Inconsistency and Greenwashing Across the sector, the report cites inconsistent asset disclosure, lack of transparency around fossil fuel investments, and what it calls the “obfuscation” of terms like “green assets” and “transition assets” as factors that make it “nearly impossible” to assess pension funds’ performance.

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Chris Hall

JULY 1, 2022

UNEP FI is responsible for formulating the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and convenes the Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance (NZAOA), the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) and the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA). Fancy writes: “To fix our system and curb a growing [greenwashing] disaster, we need government to fix the rules.”.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Taken together across our fastest-growing innovation sectors, this support alone will attract an estimated £2 billion of additional investment every year over the next decade.” Alongside the new investments, Energy Security Secretary Claire Coutinho unveiled a series of power network reforms to help accelerate electrification.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Industry experts have stressed the need for simplicity and clarity around Europe’s ESG fund labelling, as the European Commission’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) consultation deadline looms. The SDRs were due to be introduced on 30 June, but following various delays are now expected in H2 2024.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

European efforts to bring transparency to ESG funds haven’t addressed fears of greenwashing. Almost a year since the European Commission introduced the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), the European investment community remains divided over how to classify the ESG risks and impacts of their investments.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 31, 2022

Sustainable investment experts predicted an even greater emphasis by investors on public policy, at a recent roundtable held by S&P Global Sustainable1 and ESG Investor. First, our roundtable participants surveyed the existing regulatory landscape for sustainable investing. Positive trajectory.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 2, 2022

As responsible investors search for the most sustainable companies to back, the outcomes of these debates could not be more important for global efforts to rapidly cut emissions. Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, thousands of companies have voluntarily set ambitious, science-based emissions reduction targets.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2023

And while there are instructive parallels with the catalytic impact of the Paris Agreement on identifying and mitigating climate risks by the private sector, there are also important differences. Critically, assessing nature risks is undoubtedly a more multi-faceted process than counting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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Chris Hall

MAY 4, 2022

The taskforce will also consider guidance on avoiding greenwashing strategies, and the simplification of assessing, comparing and interpreting transition plans. . C of global warming promised by signatories of the Paris Agreement. . The UK isn’t the only part of the world considering mandatory transition plans. .

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ESG Today

MARCH 5, 2025

International investment manager M&G Investments announced that it will adopt the new Sustainability Improvers label introduced by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)s Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR)for its Sustain Paris Aligned range of climate mitigation-focused investment funds.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This March, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a sustainable business forum in Vancouver “things have changed” since the country signed up to the Paris Agreement on climate change. C, clarifying fiduciary duty, and strengthening advertising rules to deter greenwashing.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2023

The World Bank estimates that a carbon price of $50 to $100 per ton of CO2 is required by 2030 to meet the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement. Sustainable Investing – Greater Scrutiny. The increased scrutiny over greenwashing is necessary, and will provoke the market to favor substance over style.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 29, 2025

Kenneth Lamont, Senior Researcher at data and analytics firm Morningstar, acknowledges EUGBS is another milestone on the road towards the formalisation of sustainable investing in Europe. While the intention of the EUGBS is to improve standards and reduce the risk of greenwashing is admirable, the reality is its limited scope, he adds.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The distinction between active and passive investment strategies needs to be redefined when it comes to sustainable investments, argues Henrik Wold Nilsen, a Senior Portfolio Manager at Storebrand. Storebrand makes the distinction between Paris-alignment reporting and financial alignment. trillion total.

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