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Advocates urge regulation of banks’ climate commitments to avoid greenwashing

Corporate Knights

The day-long session focused on aligning financial policy with Canada ’ s climate goals, including federal commitments under the Paris Agreement to reduce GHG emissions by up to 45% below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. .

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AB: ESG in Action - The Human Touch in Interpreting Climate Scenario Analysis

3BL Media

The evolving climate drives physical risks—damaged or stranded assets and business-interruption costs from severe weather events. Despite doubling its power generation, the company has committed to reducing greenhouse gas by 40% from 2005 levels by 2025. Case Study: Physical Risks Could Change Dining Habits.

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Breaking Down Responsible Investment

Sense and Sustainability

To reflect these three pillars, responsible investment is now more commonly known as ESG Investment , an idea and term which originated from a 2005 ‘Who Cares Wins’ conference and report. Risk is a central element in the decision to factor ESG principles into investing, as it can reduce future losses related to stranded assets.

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JUST Capital’s New Head of Investor Strategies Says It’s ‘Increasingly Irresponsible’ to Ignore ESG

Just Capital

In 2005, seven years before we launched the Human Capital Management Coalition, we were already at 80%. It’s like, “OK, companies, are you going to have stranded assets in the future? In 1975, intangibles accounted for less than 20% of the total market capitalization of the S&P 500.

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ESG Explainer: Line of Duty

Chris Hall

In 2005, a group of investment managers organised under the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) commissioned law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to publish a report , ‘A Legal Framework for the Integration of ESG Issues into Institutional Investment’. How does fiduciary duty relate to sustainable investment?

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Mitigating social impact in a low-carbon Singapore

Eco-Business

The country has committed to unconditionally reducing GHG emissions intensity by 36 percent from 2005 levels, and to peak its carbon emissions by 2030. Climate change considerations are also fast becoming a cornerstone in Singapore's national development.