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EU ‘green’ label for gas and nuclear sparks sustainable investing crisis

Corporate Knights

When I led Canada’s Social Investment Organization (SIO) in the early 2000s, one of our most important debates concerned the question of whether the organization should develop an industry-wide label for socially responsible investment, as sustainable investing was called back then.

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Colorado pension fund loses US$2.7 billion by not divesting from fossil fuels

Corporate Knights

Some of Canada’s largest pension funds, such as the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board , continue to finance oil and gas expansion. And in 2018, Ireland became the first country to divest its national investment fund completely from fossil fuel companies.

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Responsible-investing trailblazer awarded Order of Canada

Corporate Knights

The churches, through TCCR, enabled sustained attention to what companies were doing – seeking meetings with management, asking questions at company annual meetings, or even worse, from their point of view, filing formal shareholder proposals for inclusion in the proxy mailing to all shareholders. It must be addressed by changing the economy.

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How Finance can help stop climate change: Green bonds

Edouard Stenger

Part of this revolution is the meteoritic growth of green bonds, which were started in 2007 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank. If growth was slow from the first green bond issuance to 2012, things have accelerated since. Of course, not all green bonds are necessarily green, or sustainable.

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

Chris Hall

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including Franklin Templeton, Ninety One, Robeco, Mirova, Adam Street Partners, ThomasLloyd and NGFS. We are confident that Anne’s expertise will take our efforts on sustainable investing to the next level.”

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AllianceBernstein: Nurturing Nature - Why Investors Should Care About Biodiversity

3BL Media

Prior to joining the firm in 2018, Rosner performed research for the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, where she worked on projects related to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and renewable energy alternatives in the extractive industry.

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All Things Considered: A Framework for Assessing ESG-Labeled Bonds

3BL Media

1 Fatica, Serena and Panzica, Roberto, Sustainable Investing in Times of Crisis: Evidence from Bond Holdings and the COVID-19 Pandemic (December 21, 2021). The views expressed herein do not constitute research, investment advice or trade recommendations and do not necessarily represent the views of all AB portfolio-management teams.