ESG Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

UK ad regulator the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled Thursday that ads by HSBC highlighting the bank’s climate-focused actions were misleading, as they omitted information about HSBC’s continued financing activities for emissions-intensive industries and businesses.

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3BL Media

JUNE 19, 2024

However, the opportunities for improvement and innovation in this area are substantial and can lead to enhanced relationships with stakeholders, improved regulatory compliance, and increased attractiveness to investors looking for sustainable investment opportunities.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

The UK Government should also adopt a Sustainable Investment Taxonomy or Sustainable Investment Hierarchy approach to inform and guide all public sector investment and procurement decisions. To achieve that goal, three quarters of our electricity will need to be sourced from clean energy.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

—such as California’s corporate climate disclosure laws and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which is already delivering hundreds of thousands of new jobs and sustainable investments across the country—there is much more that needs to be done to limit global temperature rise and achieve a net zero emissions economy by 2050.

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Sustainability Update

JUNE 28, 2022

by Hank Boerner – Chair & Chief Strategist – G&A Institute What is it about an investable product – a mutual fund, an exchange traded fund (ETF) – that would qualify it as an “ESG” or “sustainable investment” offering to the retail or institutional investor? Only about 12% were on track to meet Paris goals.

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Chris Hall

JULY 8, 2022

Supporting resilience and just transition are as important as climate mitigation, says Lihuan Zhou, Associate at the World Resources Institute’s Sustainable Finance Center. Sustainable investing is a key part of curbing climate change, and the sector is showing some signs of progress. Still, no fund can ignore climate impacts.

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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). Analysing US$16.4 trillion of the assessed asset managers’ equity fund portfolios, the report found that managers hold 2.8 Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ’s portfolio was the most misaligned globally.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2024

CalSTRS Sustainable Investment Director Kirsty Jenkinson talks about taking a hard line on companies failing to disclose emissions properly and treating proxy voting as seriously as portfolio investments. We’ll continue to do that this year, because we feel directors are our representatives on the board.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 14, 2024

The new platform seeks to provide inputs to investors that can support their engagements with high-emitting companies, as well informing capital allocation. “If The initiative also noted the majority of these companies were not moving sufficiently fast to align with the goals of the Paris Agreement and reduce risks to investors.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 9, 2023

InfluenceMap’s data also shows that companies with worse grades and greatest misalignment with the objectives of the Paris Agreement have higher levels of engagement intensity. Both of these companies have a C+ performance band scores, which indicates mixed alignment with the Paris Agreement. .

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 6, 2022

SUMMARY: Aligned With the Paris Agreement and Approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), JetBlue Commits to Reduce Jet Fuel Emissions 50% Per Revenue Tonne Kilometer by 2035 From 2019 Levels. For more information and the best fares, visit jetblue.com. SOURCE: JetBlue Airways. Media Contact. corpcomm@jetblue.com. [1]

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

SFDR Level 1 requires asset management companies to provide information about their investments’ ESG risks and also their impact on society and the environment. It lays down sustainability disclosure obligations for manufacturers of financial products and financial advisers toward end-investors.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

Now they must wait to see how signatories to the Paris Agreement act on the commitments outlined in the official response to the Global Stocktake, as well as multiple other pledges announced across the two weeks before that final text was signed, sealed and gavelled. C has not lessened; if anything, it has increased,” he says.

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Chris Hall

MAY 22, 2024

It is a tool for evaluating risk in the portfolio and help us make informed decisions.” It’s also a sellable GHG product for oil and gas firms. The post Options Still Open for Fossil Fuel Engagement appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 29, 2022

Institutional investors are increasingly attracted to climate-focused passive investment vehicles as a systematic and cost-effective way of transitioning their portfolios to net zero. . Recently, passive products that are ‘Paris-aligned’ – meaning they are decarbonising in line with a 1.5-2°C Window shopping .

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Chris Hall

APRIL 11, 2022

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

APRIL 19, 2024

“To deliver their own plans effectively, companies need clear and coherent policy settings, as well as understanding the direction of the economy and how that flows from international agreements – most notably the Paris Agreement,” he explained. Some companies may also need to tap into some form of government support.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Last weekend (9-10 December) saw a host of events dedicated to nature, land use, oceans and food systems, including a high-level plenary discussion on “the importance of action on nature in delivering the goals of the Paris Agreement”. Finding investible projects can be a challenge.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including AustralianSuper, Morningstar, Tikehau Capital, Oak Hill Advisors and Guinness Global Investors. . 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

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.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Its communication on a ‘ competition policy fit for new challenges ’ promised “guidance and legal certainty to enable cooperation” in pursuit of sustainability, within updates to its horizontal block exemption rules. Removing impediments.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

GFANZ guidance expected to expand transition-informed indexes, while EUs Platform on Sustainable Finance deepens scope of transition focus. As such, GFANZ proposed three categories of transition-informed indexes. Transition-engaged indexes would include companies in development, as well as those aligning to net zero.

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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

MARCH 16, 2022

trillion annually, has attracted just US$13 billion in sustainable investment during the past decade. This explainer looks at the calls for a ‘sustainable blue economy’ and the role investors can play. We can learn from the Paris Agreement process and move fast on ocean plastics. What is the scale of the problem?

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Chris Hall

JUNE 24, 2022

Consistent data on sovereign climate risks is crucial, says Victoria Barron, ASCOR Chair and Head of Sustainable Investment, BT Pension Scheme. All countries must have a physical risk report and analysis as part of the Paris Agreement, but they all vary. billion at the end of 2020. Data-gathering challenges.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The primary outcomes of this year’s COP include: 1) the Paris Agreement Work Programme (PAWP); 2) the Talanoa Dialogue; and 3) the Pre-2020 action and ambition. More information can be found here. More information on the event can be found here. SDSN is especially grateful to Enel , for its support of the event.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2022

Management of nature-related risks, impacts and dependencies could soon become central to asset owners’ sustainable investment strategies. From Paris to Kunming. The 2015 Paris Agreement set a single goal, of keeping climate change to 2°C above pre-industrial levels, albeit modified in 2018 to 1.5°C Article 2.1.c

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including FTSE Russell, BondLink, Moody’s, Intercontinental Exchange and more. . Green bond designations represent the majority of ESG municipal issuance, accounting for US$19 billion of par volume or 43.6%

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This work culminated in a new report, “ Decarbonization Pathways for Paraguay’s Energy Sector ,” published in November of 2021 by the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), and co-authored by the Quadracci Sustainable Engineering Lab at Columbia University, and Paraguay-based Centro de Recursos Naturales, Energía y Desarrollo (CRECE).

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Chris Hall

JUNE 21, 2024

Shenzhen, home to six of the asset managers covered in the survey, stood out as a progressive jurisdiction where financial institutions are required to disclose environmental information, Yuan said. Of the 16 asset managers covered in Greenpeace’s survey, all but one are signatories of the UN Principles of Responsible Investment (UN PRI).

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 13, 2023

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including NatureAlpha, Verdantix, Solactive, Minerva Analytics, Euronext, Joulea, and Clarity AI. C goal of the Paris Agreement. index looks to respond to the growing demand for sustainable investment tools.

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Chris Hall

JULY 22, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including OS-Climate, CIPFA, Isio, ICE, Urgentum and Banca March. . The Climate Portfolio Alignment Tool will aid stakeholders in aligning portfolios at individual holdings and loan levels with the Paris Agreement temperature increase.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Those responsible for allocating private sector capital have a “significant role” to play in addressing biodiversity loss, said sustainability focused Impax Asset Management. However, investors seeking to avoid harming nature often lack the information and the tools for effective risk management.

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Chris Hall

JULY 6, 2022

Through SIPs, trustees with 100 or more members are now expected to publicly state their – or their external managers’ – engagement policy and priorities, and explain in detail how they steward their sustainable investments. Trustees can then use this information to prioritise specific companies for engagement. . “We

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Chris Hall

JULY 27, 2022

Combined, these trends promise to form what Goldman Sachs described as a “virtuous cycle” that has developed in Europe, in which increased ESG fund labelling requirements trigger greater inflows, which prompts wider taxonomy adoption, which attracts more investment, and so on. . “A

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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. Beyond disclosure.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 1, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including S&P DJI, Impact Cubed, Apex, Sweep, K2 Integrity, RepRisk, ICE, and Confluence. . Index provider S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) has launched the iBoxx EUR Corporates Net Zero 2050 Paris-Aligned ESG Index.

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