Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Between July 1, 2016, and January 15, 2024, Clean200 companies generated a total return of 103.5%. In 2016, we created the Clean200 in response to investors saying, ‘If we divest fossil fuels, there is nothing to invest in.’” through those years. through those years. dollars.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Since our first report was launched in the summer of 2016, a great deal has changed in the world. On this score, as of January 31, 2022, the Clean200 has outperformed its MSCI ACWI peers by 3.94% since the Clean200 was launched in July of 2016. Cement carbon laggards Companies in the cement industry that were divested by NBIM.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 27, 2024

Reflecting on these findings, it’s perhaps understandable that some investors have become frustrated by the sector’s lack of progress. Last year, the Church of England Pensions Board and Church Commissioners divested from all oil and gas firms that failed to align with climate goals – including Shell.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 23, 2022

Recently, large-scale solar generation has begun rapid expansion, growing from negligible levels before 2016 to 3% of all Australian electricity generation in 2020, representing a four-year growth rate of 1,268%. The fund has allocated A$1 billion in renewable and low-carbon technologies in its infrastructure and private equity portfolio.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

As more and more institutions and people are divesting from fossil fuels globally, climate responsible finance is booming. From a mere three billion USD in 2012 it has grown to $81 billion in 2016 and could reach $150 billion this year. If growth was slow from the first green bond issuance to 2012, things have accelerated since.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

For 2016-2020, the ratio improved to was 0.7:1 Rooke says these are “encouraging signs” and asserts that GFANZ’s focus is on engaging with carbon-intensive firms rather than divestment. “We According to a recent BloombergNEF analysis , the 2011-2015 low-carbon to fossil energy supply investment ratio was US$0.5

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Stanford Social Innovation

MARCH 3, 2022

trillion in 2016, accounting for one-third of total global assets under management. ESHG-minded Investors can leverage their financial power by divesting from companies that aren’t doing healthy business. trillion by the beginning of 2020, an increase of 42 percent. trillion in 2018 and $22.8

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Born in Seoul before immigrating to the United States at age 2, Morgan Collins followed his father into a career in finance, working with hedge funds and private equity firms including BlackRock, making the leap to the Starbucks treasury department in 2016. One of the things I’ve learned is the government moves pretty slowly," she says.

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Stanford Social Innovation

AUGUST 25, 2022

For sustainable tech to be possible, funders, including investors, philanthropists, and foundations, must develop a two-pronged approach of intentional investments in those leading justice-centered approaches to technological and economic transitions and informed divestments from extractive and fossil-fuel-dependent systems and enterprises.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Last February, four student activists at Manhattan’s New York University got the meeting they’d been waiting for: a chance to tell the school’s board of trustees why the university should divest the fossil fuel stocks in its US$5-billion endowment. It was a big win. and Canada in September.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In 2016, the head of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Canada’s biggest pension fund, warned it should operate “at an arm’s length” from the government after it called on the fund to invest in Canadian infrastructure. California’s proposed divestment laws addresses the systemic risk of climate change, he says.

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

The fossil fuels divestment movement continues to grow and as indicated in a recent report by DivestInvest, 1,500 investment institutions, responsible for $39.2 trillion in assets, have committed to divest. Student divestment movements have succeeded in removing fossil fuels from a number of universities in 2021.

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