ESG Today

AUGUST 2, 2023

The company said that it has also become the first steel company globally to be certified to issue Climate Bonds, which demonstrate compliance with the international Paris Agreement’s GHG emissions targets. The mill technology is being supplied by metal industry plant construction and mechanical engineering company SMS Group.

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3BL Media

MARCH 30, 2022

166 companies on the initiative’s focus list were measured on their progress against the initiative’s three engagement goals and a set of key indicators related to business alignment with the goals of the Paris Agreement. C climate goal agreed in Paris and reaffirmed in Glasgow last year. C goal of the Paris Agreement.”.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Written by Acre's Ian Povey-Hall for Investment Week , published on 07.12.22, original source: Could the reallocation of human capital be a key solution to today's climate crisis? C in place”, taking action to operationalise the Paris Agreement has never been more urgent. About Acre.

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3BL Media

MARCH 1, 2022

The investment firm has spent more than two decades helping companies adopt climate-friendly business models which will continue this year with a focus on the phase-out of unabated coal generation by 2030 for developed markets and 2050 for developing markets, in order to achieve the goals, set out in the Paris Agreement.

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3BL Media

MAY 23, 2022

KEYWORDS: regenerative food systems, impact investment, Global Alliance for the Future of Food. Sustainable Development Goals.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

They will work to deliver on their Paris Agreement. This week, 196 countries are gathering in Glasgow for the long-awaited COP26 climate summit. The post International cooperation and open data are key to a just transition away from fossil fuels appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 30, 2022

Releasing its second round of Net Zero Company Benchmark assessments, which measures the progress of 166 carbon-intensive companies in aligning with the Paris Agreement, Climate Action 100+ said the vast majority of companies had not set Paris-aligned medium-term emissions reduction targets.

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Sustainability Update

JUNE 28, 2022

S&P Global has issued a report that says only 12 percent of so-called “green” or “environmental” investment funds are on track to meet the global climate goals agreed to at the Paris Agreement / COP 21 meetings in 2015. Only about 12% were on track to meet Paris goals.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2022

UK pension schemes will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Paris Agreement from October, but will also be given greater flexibility to make climate-positive investments as well as new stewardship guidance, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey confirmed today. Paris alignment. degrees Celsius.

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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

APRIL 19, 2023

Today, a massive climate and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) financing gap still persists — and even after the SDGs and Paris Agreement laid out a critical role for the private sector in 2016, the subsequent years have brought only modest increases in private investment mobilization. They failed. trillion — up from $2.5

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Looking for leaders – Next month, at COP27, we will hear a lot about the progress of countries in reducing carbon emissions as part of their nationally determined contributions to the Paris Agreement. How quickly and how high would that rise if impact was firmly put on the same footing in fiduciary duty as risk and return?

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Chris Hall

JUNE 15, 2022

The challenge of SDG-related measurement and reporting is rising due to the increasing number of asset owners looking to drive real-world impact through their investments. .

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3BL Media

APRIL 22, 2022

Bloomberg launched the Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Global Clean Energy Index, designed to help investors allocate capital to align with their long-term climate goals, and the Bloomberg Government Climate Risk Scores to measure the progress that countries and regions are making in meeting the global Paris Agreement goals. Social Impact.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Feeding into that debate is Amal-Lee Amin, Head of Climate Change at British International investment (BII), a UK government-owned institution which provides development finance an impact investment in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. Increasing concern.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 6, 2023

As we approach the final seven years to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and grapple with our commitments under the Paris Agreement, it is becom ing increasingly evident that the clock is ticking. It is a testament to the fact that the global impact ecosystem is growing stronger by the day.

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James Militzer

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

GOGLA applauds the Paris Agreement target of mobilising $100 billion per year for climate action in developing countries , and we strongly encourage governments and development banks to earmark a portion of this to energy access.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Yet the goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement is to limit long-term temperature increases to well below 2 degrees—preferably 1.5 The Impact Investing Institute’s new Just Transition Finance Challenge , whose founding participants are development and mainstream asset owners and managers representing a total of $4.4

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B the Change

JULY 7, 2022

To achieve the SDGs, we need trillions of dollars to finance different projects; where those projects have a financial return on investment, that money could come from sustainable finance. Intentionality means that investors intend to make a positive environmental or social impact through their investments.

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Chris Hall

JULY 15, 2022

This is the excoriating view from the 2° Investing Initiative (2DII), an independent, non-profit think tank working to align financial markets and regulations with the Paris Agreement goals. We’ve talked about mobilising trillions of dollars [for impact investment] for a very long time, but just haven’t done it.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2023

n December 2015, the world took a vital step in tackling climate change by adopting the Paris Agreement. Maier says that the investment community recognises the strengths and imitations of shareholder resolutions and active engagement, with investors aware that without policy change the goals of the Paris Agreement will not be met. “

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Chris Hall

JUNE 17, 2022

The desire for authenticity is at least part of the story behind the growing appeal of impact investing , but credible measurement frameworks remain a major challenge.

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Chris Hall

MAY 6, 2022

“Our Ocean Health ETF portfolio is 100% focused on companies with effective, legitimate green agendas, based on the knowledge and relationships we’ve built in our five years of impact investing,” said Doug Heske, Newday Impact CEO. “We Gresham House aims to support efforts to enhance indigenous vegetation over the long-term. “To

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

He has also previously held roles at the Global Impact Investing Net work and the African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank initiative. The unit aims to support the goals of the Paris Agreement by providing equity capital to companies focused on energy transition.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 26, 2024

In addition, reforestation projects present an incredible opportunity: there are 70 million hectares of degraded land in the country and Brazil has committed to restore 12 million hectares under the Paris Agreement. Not surprisingly, quite a few businesses were created with ambitious goals to tackle such a challenge.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 21, 2023

Specifically, the proposal focuses on the impacts and risks to indigenous peoples and the obligation that companies should consult with indigenous communities when a project might impact their rights and lands, known as free prior informed consent.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The US has re-signed the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and will bring forward new mandatory disclosure rules for public companies in 2022. Investment firms wanting to be leaders in sustainability are already getting ahead of these challenges, rather than waiting for policymakers to deliver.

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Stanford Social Innovation

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Satisfying the four conditions is exceedingly difficult if not impossible, and even if you succeed the impact will be insignificant (and may not be the type of impact you need or expect). Or simply invest in new technologies or programs yourself. Stick with the basics. Revisit ESG and sustainable finance regulations.

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Chris Hall

JULY 10, 2023

Niall Considine, Senior Manager of Asset Manager Standards at ShareAction, told ESG Investor that there were already many widely accepted international conventions on environmental and social issues that can be used to design sustainability thresholds relevant to investment decisions, ranging from temperature goals in the Paris Agreement and the COP15 (..)

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Chris Hall

APRIL 7, 2022

To address these challenges, PRI suggests that institutional investors and multilateral institutions continue to engage with governments and local regulators on developing and implementing sustainable finance policy frameworks that align with the SDGs and the Paris Agreement. .

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Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2022

More than half of UK pension funds representing £150 billion already hold some kind of impact investment and are targeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals relating to climate action, according to a survey by Pensions for Purpose and Big Society Capital. .

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 20, 2023

Staying on track In December, ABP announced its plan to reduce its CO2 footprint across its entire global investment portfolio by 50% in 2030 compared to 2019 and set aside €30 billion (US$32.5

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Chris Hall

JUNE 16, 2023

Analysis by non-profit Net Zero Tracker showed that only 32 of the 100 largest private firms have set net zero targets, compared to 69 of the biggest publicly traded companies – highlighting that the role that investor engagement can play in aligning private markets to the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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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. But she continues: “All investments are impact investments.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 17, 2022

AXA IM Alts’ investment aims to support the continued development of GreenStruxure’s renewable energy microgrids, which provide affordable, decarbonised energy, bill optimisation and sustainability credits.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Research by S&P found that of 12,000 funds researched, representing US$20 trillion assets under management (AUM), only 11% were aligned with the Paris Agreement to keep temperatures below 2C increase. Of the 51 climate-focused funds, representing US$30 billion AUM, only 10% were Paris aligned.

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Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2022

The EU Taxonomy Regulation, for example, provides a “practical tool to bridge the gap between international sustainability goals, like the Paris Agreement, and investment practice”, says PRI. Pirovska says the EU is leading in policy reform, while other markets are “catching up”.

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