UK investors pull out of ESG funds
Financial Times: Moral Money
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
Record outflow of £544mn from responsible investment funds in September
Financial Times: Moral Money
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
Record outflow of £544mn from responsible investment funds in September
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Close to $22 billion in U.S. offshore wind projects have been delayed or canceled, but the Virginia utility is moving forward with the largest facility in U.S. waters.
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Renew Economy
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Dozens of ‘small modular reactor’ designs are being promoted, but precious few will reach construction stage and likelihood of SMRs being built in large numbers is negligible. The post Small modular nuclear reactors: a history of failure appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
By standing before the Calgary Chamber of Commerce and pledging our national pension fund’s continued support for the Alberta oil and gas industry, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) CEO John Graham predictably told Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and her Big Oil allies exactly what they wanted to hear. But the financing needs and expansion plans of oil and gas companies are incompatible with CPPIB’s mandate to ensure Canadians’ retirement security by investing “with a view to achieving
Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions
In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
M·A·C Cosmetics was proud to partner with The Burghàlie Academy of Visual Arts for a series of events this fall, most recently supporting the Atlanta Art Awards Fashion Gala. Burghàlie Academy is a nonprofit organization that advocates for under-resourced youth by providing access to education, youth development opportunities, and other means that serve as healthy alternatives to behavioral challenges.
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
New research paints an uncharacteristically upbeat picture for the planet. This is because more realistic ecological modelling suggests the world's plants may be able to take up more atmospheric CO2 from human activities than previously predicted.
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GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
With geopolitical tensions high and the stakes for the global environment rising, the countries reached the starting point for a path forward on mitigating the climate crisis.
Renew Economy
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Tesla reveals details of its plan to take on traditional utility incumbents in Australia by focusing on household and business packages that combine rooftop PV, electric cars and battery storage. The post Tesla reveals plan to be Australian energy retailer and “disrupt traditional incumbents” appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Jamaica was on hurricane watch in the days leading up to the UN COP28 climate summit. An unusual tropical storm swinging in from the west was heading for the Caribbean, a region often in the eye of the changing climate, with intensifying storms, record flooding, devastating drought and crumbling coastlines. In the face of such turmoil, the Caribbean has home-grown solutions that are building resilience and lowering emissions as it girds for fiercer storms: coral reef baskets to protect coastline
Richard Matthews
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
The fossil fuel industry has a long history of malfeasance but their misapplication of carbon capture may be their most audacious disinformation ploy to date. As explained in an Energy Transitions Commission report, carbon technology is being ‘co-opted’ by fossil-fuel companies so they can keep extracting oil and gas. While carbon capture is a critical […] The post Unmasking Big Oil’s Audacious Carbon Capture Deception appeared first on Change Oracle.
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Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
The intensity and frequency of extreme rainfall increases exponentially with global warming, a new study finds. The analysis shows that state-of-the-art climate models significantly underestimate how much extreme rainfall increases under global warming -- meaning that extreme rainfall could increase quicker than climate models suggest.
ESG Today
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Lawmakers in the European Parliament voted 462-134 for a resolution outlining its delegation’s position at the upcoming UN COP28 Climate Conference, which includes a call for the end of fossil fuel subsidies globally by 2025. COP28 is set to take place in Dubai from November 30 to December 12. In addition to calling all for an end to all direct and indirect fossil fuel subsidies, at national, EU and global levels, “as soon as possible and by 2025 the latest,” the resolution also supports a tangi
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Environmental and social commitments are aligning more closely with tangible financial goals, a sign of sustainability’s maturity in business.
Renew Economy
NOVEMBER 18, 2023
Rooftop and utility scale solar set new records in Australia's main grid, as coal output from the country's biggest coal state also sent to a new low. The post Solar smashes more records, as coal power sent to another new low appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Speaker: Hortense Grouvel
In this new webinar, you will learn firsthand how to set up a sustainable supply chain program that will help meet increasing ESG requirements stemming from regulators, customers, consumers, and investors alike. Hortense Grouvel, ESG expert at IntegrityNext, and Sean Whelan, Global Senior Manager at Halliburton, will look at how ensuring compliance will also help you increase sustainability performance, resilience, and innovation, allowing you to unlock the full potential of your supply chain op
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Are Canada’s financial institutions and large private companies aligned with climate action? Canadians want them to be. In fact, the majority of Canadians want strong policies from the government to ensure that financial institutions invest more sustainably. The government has started to take action, but more is needed. Last week, in the fall economic statement, the federal government promised action on sustainable finance.
Energy Central
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
IAEA Working Groups on AI IAEA Report on AI and Nuclear Energy US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Strategic Plan and Workshops on AI OECD/Nuclear Energy Agency – Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Scientific Computing in Nuclear Engineering The often quoted mantra of silicon valley’s entrepreneurs is “move fast and break things.
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Researchers aiming to combat rising global temperatures have developed a new 'cooling glass' that can turn down the heat indoors without electricity by drawing on the cold depths of space. The new technology, a microporous glass coating, can lower the temperature of the material beneath it by 3.5 degrees Celsius at noon, and has the potential to reduce a mid-rise apartment building's yearly carbon emissions by 10 percent.
Impact Alpha
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
There is an urgent race to curb rising temperatures and prevent the worst effects of climate change. This is reflected in a growing. The post How much science is there behind the Science Based Targets Initiative? appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
The world is off track to tackle plastic pollution. Here's what business must do now, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
Renew Economy
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
Renewable energy hit a record high of 72.9 per cent of total generation on Sunday, as a wave of wind and solar across the grid sent coal output and operational demand to new lows. The post Renewables hit record high in Australia, as green energy transition rolls on appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
From my 100-foot fire tower in northwestern Alberta, I gaze down at several people toiling away in a nearby cut block, their bodies bent forward, bags of seedlings tied to their waists, spades in hand, digging, slipping in a young tree and firming up the soil with a boot. They work quietly, steadfast under a hot sun. They’re among the handful of people that I’ll come to meet over a summer of watching for smoke in the boreal forest: tree planters, responsible for regenerating forests – a vital ca
We Mean Business Coalition
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Organizations working with business, financial institutions and employer organizations on just transition share expectations for the new UNFCCC work programme on just transition pathways. Download the joint statement (pdf) To Parties attending UNFCCC COP28, We welcome the establishment at COP27 of a new UNFCCC work programme on just transition for discussion of pathways to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, as well as the decision to convene annual high-level ministerial roundtable
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Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
Researchers have investigated how changes in urban land and population will affect future populations' exposures to weather extremes under climate conditions at the end of the 21st century. They used a data-driven model to predict how urban areas across the country will grow by 2100, and found that how a city is laid out or organized spatially has the potential to reduce population exposures to future weather extremes.
ESG Today
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Investment giant BlackRock announced today that it has raised nearly $1 billion in client commitments at the initial close of its energy transition and energy security-focused Evergreen Infrastructure fund, Launched in June 2022, fund is a core, open-ended infrastructure equity fund that focuses on investing in infrastructure businesses in Europe and North America aligned with the themes of energy transition and energy security, in addition to a focus on thematic sectors including transportation
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Key takeaways from Patagonia's first 50 years in operation, including insights from Vincent Stanley, director of Patagonia philosophy.
Renew Economy
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Giant battery in Melbourne partly funded by SEC is looking at adding 12-hour storage using flow battery technologies for its next stage. The post Giant Melbourne battery may triple in size with plans for 12-hour flow battery storage appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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In our latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Scorpio Edition, 3BL embraces the perspective of one of the zodiac's most misunderstood signs: Scorpio. While this sign often has a darker view of the world, they do not shy away from shining a light on controversial topics. This month we take a deep dive into corporate pullback of DEI and how companies can utilize astrological advice to reinvent its social impact communication.
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
When it comes to the ecological harms of industrial farming, pesticides and nitrous-oxide-spewing fertilizer s are often top concerns for environmentalists. But agriculture’s overall use of fossil fuels is also an enormous problem, according to a recent analysis by the Global Alliance for the Future of Food. The report estimates that agriculture’s supply chain is responsible for at least 15% of the world’s fossil fuel use and for driving the equivalent annual carbon emissions of the European
Chris Hall
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
Difficulties in definition continue to thwart efforts to demonstrate the financial benefits of sustainable investments. Sustainable fund flows attracted US$37 billion of net new money in Q4 2022, with global sustainable fund assets reaching a total of US$2.5 trillion by end of the year, according to data and research provider Morningstar. This suggests steady growth in the teeth of last year’s energy price crisis.
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
High-intensity, often catastrophic, wildfires have become increasingly frequent across the Western U.S. Researchers quantified the value of managed low-intensity burning to dramatically reduce the risk of such fires for years at a time.
Impact Alpha
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
The impact-first philosophy that Ceniarth has championed has had its fair share of challenges. But we remain convinced that it is critical to. The post Ten lessons for 10 years: Inconvenient truths from an impact-first investor appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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Throughout Climate Week, a feeling of urgency on tackling the climate crisis was palpable. Yet, questions continue to linger about corporate progress. Are we truly moving the needle or are we stuck in a cycle of empty statements and a flood of reports and guidelines? In the latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Libra Edition , we use Climate Week outcomes to explore how brands can communicate progress credibly.
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