Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This principle led the scheme to exit all holdings in upstream oil and gas majors by September last year, on the basis that such firms “ simply refuse ” to alter their course in a manner consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 31, 2022

COP15 will see the finalisation of the Global Biodiversity Framework – dubbed the Paris Agreement for plants – which will commit signatories to align financial flows with its objectives to protect and conserve nature.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The pact – which was adopted by the 193 members at its UN General Assembly – has the core objective to “turbocharge” actions and investments supporting the SDGs and the Paris Agreement on climate change, which have seen “halting progress and missed milestones”.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 25, 2022

The ESG-labelled bond markets are typically considered to include green, social, sustainability, sustainability-linked and transition bonds. The number of sustainability bond issues doubled versus 2020. Inconsistent information.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Yet, there is growing evidence that funds labeled as ‘sustainable’ do not always deliver what they promise. 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.

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Chris Hall

MAY 31, 2024

But measures to support the goals of the Paris Agreement must now sit alongside those needed to realise the objectives of the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). In anticipation of the NCQG, the OECD released an analysis recommending use of public sector interventions to directly or indirectly finance climate action.

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ESG Today

MARCH 5, 2025

The FCA rules introduce four labels intended to help consumers to differentiate between the sustainability objectives and investment approaches of investment products, including Sustainability Improvers, investing in assets that have the potential to improve environmental and/or social sustainability over time.

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Cortés-Puch referred to the Six Transformations approach proposed by SDSN, an integrated and holistic framework for action that reduces complexity, yet encompasses the 17 SDGs, their 169 targets and the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 29, 2025

The latter, which just marked its tenth anniversary, is a set of voluntary frameworks that seek to promote the role of global debt capital markets in financing progress towards environmental and social sustainability.

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