Chris Hall

JANUARY 10, 2025

The sustainability shake out is good news In the last decade, many companies and financial institutions have piled into the sustainability space with big and loud ambitions from net zero to living wage throughout the supply chain, although these ambitions have not always been underpinned by detailed plans that would make those ambitions a reality.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 9, 2023

India’s entry into the green bond market follows the government’s introduction in recent years of a series of climate-related goals, including a pledge made at the 2021 COP26 climate conference to reach net zero by 2070. The Excluded Project category also includes nuclear power generation and hydropower plants larger than 25 MW.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As more issuers aim to finance their net-zero ambitions and transform their business strategies to adapt to rising policy and market risks, labeled sustainable bond issuance from companies in sectors highly exposed to carbon transition is likely to rise this year.”

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Mastercard Business travel is continuing to rebound faster than predicted — and with net zero deadlines looming, it’s even more important to reduce travel’s carbon footprint. When did you start to see environmental and social sustainability become more of a priority for corporations in the context of business travel?

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

As part of our continued commitment to the future and in line with our strategic ambition to lead the sustainability transformation, we have taken a holistic approach across five interconnected areas where we can contribute the most: food systems, circularity, climate, nature, and social sustainability.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 16, 2022

We are immensely proud to be acknowledged for our global efforts to drive environmental and social sustainability through our business operations, product innovation, and community engagement initiatives,” said Marc Bitzer, Chairman and CEO of Whirlpool Corporation. plant operations.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 3, 2023

In short, more sustainable snacking is an immense and important task – one we are embracing holistically and wholeheartedly, to drive ever-greater long-term positive impact for people and the planet. Indeed, our ingredient sourcing programs are where most of the work of our carbon emissions reductions and social sustainability efforts live.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA) , designed to accelerate investment in the clean energy transition, included proven renewable technologies like wind and solar, but also other innovations that have yet to deliver at scale, such as carbon capture and storage (CC S).

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

On the sustainability side, Nobuyasu KITAMURA, Japan Sustainability Local Group Steering Committee Co-chair and Senior General Manager, Corporate Sustainability Department, Sustainability Management Division at Suntory highlighted progress made by local groups in areas such as circular economy, palm oil, plastics, and human rights.

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ESG Today

APRIL 27, 2023

Issuance volumes of green, social, sustainability and sustainability-linked (GSSS) bonds rebounded strongly in Q1 2023, resuming double-digit growth trends after falling 18% in 2022, according to a new report from Moody’s Investors Service. trillion in 2021.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Jeffrey LU, CEO of Mengniu Group, said that carbon neutrality is a great challenge to China’s dairy industry and requires the full collaboration of the whole industry chain to create a “net-zero carbon era”. Only by respecting nature and pursuing a harmonious co-existence with nature can we achieve sustainable prosperity.”

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B the Change

APRIL 16, 2023

With new pressure to act on climate change, NBS members want to know how to get to net zero throughout operations. Get Started: How to Be a Net Zero Company offers guidance (with a video). Social sustainability requires considering their needs. Sustainable Finance 10. And they seek inspiration.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2024

Taking into account both national and regional targets, the digital twin provided evidence-based projections of future energy demands and emissions, informing the critical pathway to reach a net zero energy system across the region. Our road map to achieving these ambitions is the Regional Energy Masterplan.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 24, 2022

And given Moderna’s pledge to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2030, the company will also likely design the facility in an environmentally sustainable way. To bring more precision to social sustainability goals, Bayer audits its sustainability work with the same rigor as its financial work.

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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. . The methodology is based on four core principles: net zero focus, completeness, reliability, and transparency.

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Chris Hall

MAY 31, 2024

The number of exchanges offering green bonds has increased from eight in 2016 to 34 in 2023, with a number listing a range of labelled bonds including social, sustainability-linked , green sukuk and gender-linked bonds. In that respect, the picture is still somewhat mixed.

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CIM

JUNE 17, 2022

The “Sustainability Project of the Year” award celebrates an initiative that has, at its heart, the goal of expanding the sustainability and efficiency of the data and analytics industry. The award highlights the contribution to sustainability achieved through the partnership between CIM and Analog Devices.

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Andreas Rache

JUNE 26, 2022

When we talk about ESG, one could argue that there is a strong bias focused on climate investing, reaching net zero targets as well as good corporate governance and diversity themes. By Alina Hofer, Lea Katharina Kasper & Dr. Kristjan Jespersen. ? 5 min read ?. But there is much more to ESG.

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Chris Hall

MAY 3, 2024

At the Spring Meetings, the World Bank launched a new lending platform aimed at incentivising middle-income countries (MICs) to use loans to support their net zero transition. This is important because trillions of dollars are needed to make the [net zero] transition happen, and we are nowhere near that. “In

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In recent weeks, Bloomberg has announced the launch of the Bloomberg Global Aggregate Green, Social, Sustainability Bond Indices , while MSCI unveiled a suite of indices under the Climate Action banner. Elsewhere, it added, index providers should supply net-zero aligned benchmarks and asset owners should use them.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The final draft of the Platform for Sustainable Finance’s ( PSF ) social taxonomy proposal has been adjusted to integrate more fully with existing European sustainable finance legislation to minimise regulatory burdens. The Commission will now conduct a review of the social taxonomy in due course.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 17, 2023

Moreover, technology must be anchored in society to be socially sustainable, meaning that the use of resources is well motivated and explained. 6G for sustainability 6G networks should contribute to an overall sustainable development in society by enabling the transformation of other sectors than just ICT.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The announcement last week of a consultation on the sector’s role in Britain’s net zero transition only added to its challenges. At least, the offshore wind industry’s best days can still be said to be in the future – unlike the oil and gas wells with which it shares many a North Sea bed.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Globally, managers with more than US$50 trillion have made net zero commitments via the Net Zero Asset Managers’ initiative. We see climate change as a predominant specific factor.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 31, 2022

Since then, heatwaves across the northern hemisphere, gathering energy and food security crises, and climate policy actions across the globe, notably in the US , have raised new questions about the path to a net zero economy – alongside concerns about the impact of inflation, disruption and transition on existing economic and social inequities.

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Chris Hall

MAY 6, 2022

The LPFA will publish its net zero plan this September, having made a net zero commitment in September 2021. The committee is chaired by Olga Hancock, Senior Engagement Analyst in the Responsible Investment team of the Church Commissioners for England. billion of assets, as of 31 March 2021.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 25, 2022

Achieving net zero by 2050 could require the climate bond universe to reach US$36 trillion by 2025 and over US$60 trillion by 2030, it added. The ESG-labelled bond markets are typically considered to include green, social, sustainability, sustainability-linked and transition bonds.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Much of the required fund-raising will be realised through sustainable bonds, said Moody’s, due to a post-pandemic focus on investment to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and major governments’ pursuit of net zero CO2 emissions targets. Developing economies globally need to invest as much as US$4.5

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 30, 2022

The role of the minimum safeguards in the taxonomy is critical – the EU cannot make its net zero transition on the back of human rights abuses,” Lysgaard, a member of the PSF sub-group that worked on the draft, told ESG Investor. . “We The consultation period for the PSF’s draft was recently extended from 22 August to 6 September. .

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Before the end of the year, it will publish a price for carbon emissions, which Cohen hopes will put an end to one of the many hot and increasingly political debates surrounding the net zero transition. There are lots of prices for the cost of polluting the atmosphere by emitting more CO2.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 5, 2024

In relation to the other two labels, I suggest examples which can usefully be adopted for real estate strategies: Sustainability improvers: invest in assets that have the potential to become more sustainable, determined by their potential to improve environmental and/or social sustainability over time.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As a global snacking leader dedicated to making snacking right, we are determined to lead in helping to drive sector-wide transformation for more sustainable sourcing at scale.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

“The intensity around sustainability is not going away,” said Voûte. The institutional client base wants more reporting, more activity, and more engagement with companies around themes like biodiversity and the net zero transition. That’s where we feel we’ve got an edge.”

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Responsible investment opportunities received a further boost earlier this year with the election of a new government committed to transitioning Australia toward a low-carbon economy in line with an accelerated net zero pathway. which has now been approved by federal parliament.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Further, the shortcomings of Europe’s renewable energy directive will be debated more urgently, as energy security concerns combine with net zero targets. As some noted , legislative momentum on sustainability and climate was already slowing, just 100 days after COP26.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

As well as this, other key future themes the report identified included the development of taxonomies to help issuers identify suitable projects to finance and the evaluation of issuers according to the quality and clarity of their net zero transition strategies. . billion last year, with a YoY growth of 941%. .

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

He added: “Increasing financial flows to the sustainable food transition must be at the top of the COP27 agenda if leaders are to leave Egypt with a viable plan for achieving a net zero world.”. Mulder concluded: “The Good Food Finance Network is beginning to take a systemic approach, looking at problems in a holistic manner.

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