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Morgan Stanley will measure CO2 impact of loans and investments

GreenBiz

bank to commit to measuring and disclosing the climate impact of its loans and investments, announcing last week that it has joined a multi-trillion dollar group of global financial institutions developing a standardized method for carbon accounting. Morgan Stanley has become the first major U.S. trillion in assets.

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Going green: The future of hydrogen energy

Renewable Energy World

This year’s COP26 summit is widely viewed as one of the last chances to fulfil the 2015 Paris climate agreement and ensure meaningful progress is made towards tackling our net zero targets and the climate emergency. By Bill Ireland, Logan Energy.

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Sustainability disclosures: Why we need a global reporting standard in 2022

We Mean Business Coalition

As responsible investors search for the most sustainable companies to back, the outcomes of these debates could not be more important for global efforts to rapidly cut emissions. Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, thousands of companies have voluntarily set ambitious, science-based emissions reduction targets.

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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: FTSE Russell Presents Net Zero Index Series in Japan

Chris Hall

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including FTSE Russell, BondLink, Moody’s, Intercontinental Exchange and more. .

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This Week’s People Moves: Stiell is New UNFCCC Executive Secretary

Chris Hall

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including UNFCCC, WTW, Calvert, Actis and Insight Investment. . She also oversaw a period in which the UNFCCC had to navigate the Covid-19 pandemic and Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.

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4 Sustainable Business Trends to watch in 2021

Carlos Sanchez

On top of that, the low price of oil and uncertainty about the future reduced the attractiveness for investing in energy efficiency or renewable energy or the demand for electric vehicles. Besides, the pandemic has postponed the momentum towards COP26 or climate change movements like Greta Thunberg’s Friday’s for future.

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More Relief than Regret as Montreal Fails to Make it Mandatory

Chris Hall

The GBF’s Goal D, on implementation, contained an unambiguous commitment to aligning public and private financial flows to its overall objectives, with supporting language in the enabling targets, analogous to the Paris Agreement clauses that put climate change on the global agenda in 2015. “We Beyond climate.