3BL Media

AUGUST 28, 2024

To be effective stewards of our clients’ assets, we strive to invest responsibly—assessing, engaging on and integrating material issues, including environmental, social and governance (ESG), and climate change considerations in most of our actively managed strategies (approximately 70% of AB’s total assets under management as of March 31, 2024).

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3BL Media

APRIL 29, 2024

To be effective stewards of our clients’ assets, we strive to invest responsibly—assessing, engaging on and integrating material issues, including environmental, social and governance (ESG), and climate change considerations in most of our actively managed strategies. We are unconflicted and fully accountable.

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ESG Today

MARCH 2, 2023

Pure play sustainability advisory firm ERM announced today the acquisition of Latin America-focused sustainable finance and ESG advisory firm NINT.

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3BL Media

JUNE 11, 2024

To be effective stewards of our clients’ assets, we strive to invest responsibly—assessing, engaging on and integrating material issues, including environmental, social and governance (ESG), and climate change considerations in most of our actively managed strategies (approximately 70% of AB’s total assets under management as of March 31, 2024).

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Banking Climate Change 147

3BL Media

MAY 14, 2024

To be effective stewards of our clients’ assets, we strive to invest responsibly—assessing, engaging on and integrating material issues, including environmental, social and governance (ESG), and climate change considerations in most of our actively managed strategies. We are unconflicted and fully accountable.

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Banking Climate Change Development 147

3BL Media

MAY 7, 2024

To be effective stewards of our clients’ assets, we strive to invest responsibly—assessing, engaging on and integrating material issues, including environmental, social and governance (ESG), and climate change considerations in most of our actively managed strategies. We are unconflicted and fully accountable.

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Banking Climate Change 147

3BL Media

MAY 1, 2024

To be effective stewards of our clients’ assets, we strive to invest responsibly—assessing, engaging on and integrating material issues, including environmental, social and governance (ESG), and climate change considerations in most of our actively managed strategies. We are unconflicted and fully accountable.

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Banking Climate Change 147

3BL Media

MARCH 14, 2024

To be effective stewards of our clients’ assets, we strive to invest responsibly—assessing, engaging on and integrating material issues, including environmental, social and governance (ESG), and climate change considerations in most of our actively managed strategies. We are unconflicted and fully accountable.

Banking 147

Banking Climate Change 147

3BL Media

JANUARY 31, 2024

To be effective stewards of our clients’ assets, we strive to invest responsibly—assessing, engaging on and integrating material issues, including environmental, social and governance (ESG), and climate change considerations in most of our actively managed strategies. We are unconflicted and fully accountable.

Banking 147

Banking Climate Change 147

3BL Media

JUNE 26, 2024

To be effective stewards of our clients’ assets, we strive to invest responsibly—assessing, engaging on and integrating material issues, including environmental, social and governance (ESG), and climate change considerations in most of our actively managed strategies (approximately 70% of AB’s total assets under management as of March 31, 2024).

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Kent Hargis: One strategy is more of a core-focused approach, being more diversified across sectors, across countries, identifying high-quality companies that are at reasonable prices that are having a positive effect on climate change. David Wheeler: A solutions approach is thinking about the challenges of climate out there.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 21, 2023

AGMs to be held by Citi, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America on 25 April, and by Goldman Sachs on 26 April, are seen as key indicators of investment sentiment.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

Flooding in Perth, Scotland in 2015, when the River Tay burst its banks. Ian Paton, Head of Oxford PBC and Ed Yeates, Project Engineer at Property Consultants Cluttons , discuss how climate change is increasing the risk of flooding to UK property owners and why implementing flood risk management measure is crucial to protecting assets.

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Sustainable Round Table

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a landmark piece of legislation passed on August 16, 2022, includes a number of provisions intended to mitigate climate change. This fund may pose a strategic opportunity for corporate executives, as the funding is allocated towards establishing a national green bank. What is a Green Bank?

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 4, 2023

A step change is needed in the scalability, replicability and measurability of impact to move beyond today’s incremental progress, according to Dr. Henning Stein. The new President of the World Bank, Ajay Banga, recently spoke about investment’s role in delivering positive change. Someone has to put down a marker.

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3BL Media

JUNE 19, 2022

Simmons underscored the importance of these developments, pointing to the 2022 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “To At the end of 2021, Stripe had deployed $15 million in carbon removal purchases into 14 different companies, and was the first customer for 11 of them. CEF Chair P.J.

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Gail Tverberg

JULY 5, 2022

World energy consumption by fuel based on Vaclav Smil’s estimates from Energy Transitions: History, Requirements and Prospects (Appendix) together with data from BP’s 2011 Statistical Review of World Energy for 1965 and subsequent. World coal supply has been lagging population growth since at least 2011.

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James Militzer

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Over 740 million women remain unbanked , and there are 72 countries where women are prohibited from opening bank accounts or obtaining credit. With over 80% of Kiva loans going to female borrowers, our model drives impactful, long-standing change for women, proven by our data and research findings. Since the launch of Kiva U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 29, 2021

By Sarah Casey, Portfolio Director, Climate Council. Since 2011, annual global energy transition investment (renewable energy, CCS, electrified transport, hydrogen, electrified heat, energy storage) has almost doubled, from $290b to $501b. What is the potential of green bonds to address this imbalance?

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James Militzer

JUNE 22, 2023

The World Bank says improving the performance of agricultural value chains in emerging countries like Cambodia will be crucial to ending poverty and hunger, boosting shared prosperity, and stewarding the world’s natural resources. She also started growing leafy greens, eggplants, cucumbers and chili peppers.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The world is grappling with dramatic shifts in climate change, environmental, social, and geopolitical events. Prior to that, she was the XBRL Project Manager at the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) for two years from 2010-2011. By: Christine Tan, PhD, Co-founder and Chief Research Officer of idaciti.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

More than nine out of ten (92%) focus companies have some level of executive oversight of material climate-related issues, and 75% of companies have committed to net zero by 2050. We’ve made a lot of progress in terms of changing conversations with companies; talking about net zero is normalised.”

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Gail Tverberg

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

For example, World Bank Commodities Price Data shows that prices were high in January 2022 for many materials, including fossil fuels, fertilizers, aluminum, copper, iron ore, nickel, tin and zinc. Figure 10 shows that world coal production has been essentially flat since 2011.

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Gail Tverberg

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A person wonders: What is the point of governments and their central banks pushing the world economy down, now in 2022, when the world economy is already barely able to maintain international supply lines and provide enough diesel for all of the world’s trucks and agricultural equipment? If countries with the weaker economies (i.

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Chris Hall

JULY 19, 2022

We only need to look at the events of Chernobyl in 1986 and Fukushima in 2011 to understand why there is concern. . This is more than double the 10 GW the UK’s Climate Change Committee outlined in its central net zero scenario. . But does that mean investors should avoid nuclear energy entirely? .

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) has said it draws upon the guidelines for its responsible investment policy and its expectations of companies. They are voluntary but widely considered a global standard for responsible business conduct and human rights.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

CDP reached out to over 8,850 companies with biodiversity questions as part of its 2022 climate change questionnaire, with 87% (7,700) of the companies responding, indicating their willingness to disclose on biodiversity-related matters to the platform.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

A former central banker with over 30 years’ experience in financial services, Lindeijer served as Dutch pension provider PGGM’s CIO between 2011-2020 and was responsible for €250 billion in pension funds under management. The post This Week’s People Moves: Ex-PGGM CIO Takes AustralianSuper Role appeared first on ESG Investor.

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B the Change

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

With a 25-plus-year commitment to its partners at every link in the supply chain, Equator Coffees gained B Corp Certification in 2011. The string used in each bag is made from ocean-bound plastics ethically recovered by Plastic Bank, an organization helping to improve the lives of those who help collect it.

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Gail Tverberg

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Trade as a percentage of world GDP, based on data of the World Bank. World coal production has been close to flat since 2011. It has been barely increasing since 2011. At the same time, new versions of dissipative structures can be expected to form, some of which may be better adapted to changing conditions.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 20, 2023

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicates that even if the world rapidly decarbonises, greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere and current emissions trends will make some significant climate impacts unavoidable through 2040. Since 2000 , over four billion lives have been impacted and US$2.9

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Chris Hall

APRIL 4, 2024

Productivity: only 74% of the Latin American population (over 15 years old) has access to bank accounts, versus 97% in OECD countries. Climate: 60% of Latin American cities experienced heatwaves between 2011-2020, with 28% considered extreme events. In addition, GDP per worker is ~three times lower versus OECD countries.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Financial inclusion is rising rapidly from 2011 to 2017. The percentage of rural women with a bank account has increased from 12 – 35 %. We must prepare for climate change. Education is rising in the last fifteen years – from 4% to 12 % of young Africans are attending university.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 31, 2022

Through his academic and professional work, Lokman has focused on the places where land and water meet, and how these zones have emerged as a critical front line in the fight against climate change. The flood is showing that climate change doesn’t know boundaries.”. The average claim now runs to $43,000.

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James Militzer

MAY 3, 2022

ESG’s momentum is due to accelerating climate change, deteriorating natural resources, decreasing labor rights, increasing corruption and other negative externalities that unsustainable and unethical business practices have caused. The chart below illustrates these findings: Source: Fair Finance India.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 5, 2015

Adding to this challenge, most Caribbean nations spend as much of their national budgets on damage repair and adaptation to climate change risks as on imported fossil fuels. [2] Access to energy needs to be considered as an integral part of a climate resilient strategy." [7] Work on the project began in 2004.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Now, installing new wind turbines or solar farms is cheaper than keeping coal fired plants, as per the investment bank Lazard. Fortunately, coal production and consumption have already been in steep decline in both the US and the EU as alternatives have become cheaper in the past ten years. This basically kills the business case for coal.

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