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Impact Investing Passes $1 Trillion for First Time: Report

ESG Today

Founded in 2009, the GIIN is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing, with a network of more than 20,000 investors and leaders. The report highlights some of the key drivers of the impact investing market’s momentum, including the rapid growth of the green bond market.

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CDL’s integrated sustainability report 2022 zeroes in on bolder decarbonisation targets 

Corporate Knights

CDL’s sustainability reports have been externally assured since 2009, and the scope of assurance was expanded to cover SASB and CDSB in ISR 2021. Leveraging Green Finance to Accelerate Low-Carbon Solutions. In April 2021, its South Beach Consortium joint venture (JV) secured a five-year green loan totalling S$1.22

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CDL's Integrated Sustainability Report 2022 Zeroes in on Bolder Decarbonisation Targets

3BL Media

CDL’s sustainability reports have been externally assured since 2009, and the scope of assurance was expanded to cover SASB and CDSB in ISR 2021. Leveraging Green Finance to Accelerate Low-Carbon Solutions. In April 2021, its South Beach Consortium joint venture (JV) secured a five-year green loan totalling S$1.22

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Strengthening the ‘Environment’ Component of ESG: How Financial Institutions Can Bring Green Financing into the Mainstream in India

James Militzer

Green Financial Instruments: Contrasting India to the Global Market. In the global market there are dedicated ESG funds and green instruments (ranging from green bonds to green insurance ) to facilitate projects – not only in the domain of climate finance, but also focused on the environmental objectives necessary to support sustainability.

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From Human to Planet: Why Innovation Is Key to a Sustainable Future

3BL Media

Lenovo has been measuring its emissions since forming its first emissions reduction goals in 2009/10, which it met and exceeded in 2020. Lenovo is paving the way for future environmental improvements with a $625 million green bond offering to help fund sustainable building initiatives. Raising standards.

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Bond Investors Can Help Hold Companies Accountable Post COP26

3BL Media

Notably, this goal has never been met since initially agreed to in 2009 at COP15. With companies facing mounting pressure to invest in green capex, we expect the market for green bonds and bonds linked to key performance indicators (KPIs) to continue to surge in size and importance. But labels aren’t enough.

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This Week’s People Moves: Simpson Swaps CalPERS for Franklin Templeton

Chris Hall

Dufour joined Natixis affiliate Ostrum Asset Management in 2009 and participated in the creation of Mirova, which came to fruition in 2012. She has been involved in the creation of the Mirova Global Green Bond and Women Leaders strategies and plays a key role in the firm’s engagement and voting policy.

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