3BL Media

MAY 26, 2022

The team set aggressive, science-informed environmental targets in 2017 and is ahead of achieving a reduction in carbon emissions and energy use by 75% and water use by 50% by 2035. Since 2000, PNC has prioritized the environmental performance of its buildings. Calculating Financed Emissions.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Founded in 2017, the Transition Pathway Initiative is a global initiative led by asset owners and supported by asset managers that assesses companies’ preparedness for the transition to a low-carbon economy and supports efforts to address climate change.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The taskforce’s recommendations were published in June 2017, and have become the industry standard for climate-related disclosure, heavily informing the requirements of a series of emerging sustainability reporting systems by regulators across the world.

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3BL Media

MAY 27, 2022

These targets build upon the Bank’s initial five goals set in 2017, which established the foundation for Fifth Third to reduce the environmental impact in its own operations. The 2017 goals were to purchase 100% renewable power and to reduce its energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, water use and waste sent to landfills by 2022.

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3BL Media

MAY 9, 2022

These targets build upon the Bank’s initial five goals set in 2017, which established the foundation for Fifth Third to reduce the environmental impact in its own operations. The 2017 goals were to purchase 100% renewable power and to reduce its energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, water use and waste sent to landfills by 2022.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2024

Agathe Foussard, Fixed Income Portfolio Manager, Mirova, considers recent trends in sustainable bond investments. Launched in 2008, the sustainable bond market, particularly Green Bonds, grew continuously… until 2022, when the most dramatic interest rate increases in 40 years brought this expansion to a halt.

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Chris Hall

JULY 28, 2023

Lack of green bond issuance Also, speaking on the webinar Olumide Lala, Co-Founder of consultancy Climate Transition, said it was “worrisome” that despite all the opportunities, Africa wasn’t raising sufficient funds for climate finance.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In 2017 Lenovo pioneered a Low Temperature Solder process which reduces energy consumption and has saved an estimated 10,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide since it was invented. Lenovo is paving the way for future environmental improvements with a $625 million green bond offering to help fund sustainable building initiatives.

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3BL Media

JULY 13, 2022

In 2021, PNC purchased approximately 150 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power, which is enough green power to meet 46% of the company’s purchased electricity use. PNC has reduced carbon emissions by 66%, energy consumption by 50% and water consumption by 55%, in progress toward its targets.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Fixed Income “Green” and Sustainability Linked Bonds (SLB) : Bonds dedicated to financing renewable energy, corporate investments in “brown to green” transformation and sustainability initiatives have proven popular and sound like a possible avenue to invest for impact.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Sovereigns have been relatively late entrants to sustainable bond markets following corporates and supra-national entities (such as the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), which issued the first green debt securities in the mid-2000s.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The number of sustainable debt instruments listed on Nasdaq grew by 11% during 2022 and the volume of listed bonds grew by 27%. the inaugural Danish sovereign green bond listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen), as well as a wider adoption of sustainability-linked bonds in the Nordic region.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

“The issuer base is likely to expand through multilateral support and as investor appetite for sustainable bonds catches up with vanilla bonds,” Moody’s added. Global sustainable bond issuance surged in 2021, with data providers estimating total volumes just above or below US$1 trillion; green bonds accounted for roughly half.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 11, 2021

As part of its commitment to the 2030 Agenda, Uruguay has already submitted four voluntary national reviews to the UN High Level Political Forum: in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021. Uruguay has already started to move in this direction, initiating the country’s first private issuance of green bonds to finance sustainable investment portfolios.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In his former role at the World Bank, his responsibilities included driving sustainable finance capacity building programmes, green bond initiatives and also previously working as Administrator of the World Bank Group Pension Fund. He joins from Altis Investment Management, where he held the position of CIO since 2017. .

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2022

He joins the firm from the UK government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, where as Head of Financing Green he led work on the UK’s inaugural sovereign green bonds, green gilts and on the UK Infrastructure Bank.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

billion in commitments across five blended finance vehicles since 2017.

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We Mean Business Coalition

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

All regulations, whether based on the ISSB standards or the EU or China’s own standards, have the Taskforce of Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) principles inbuilt. This means companies MUST consider the financial risks of climate change on the company’s financial situation – short, medium and long term.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 9, 2023

billion in commitments across five blended finance vehicles since 2017. “Systemic response” Reorientating the whole financial system to prioritise raising capital to contribute to long-term sustainable solutions is pivotal, experts agreed.

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Chris Hall

MAY 25, 2022

Over the last five years, sustainable bond funds have a higher Sharpe ratio (0.47) than traditional funds (0.38), the study showed. The average cost of sustainable bond funds has “consistently declined” since 2017, EFAMA found, reaching 0.59% in 2021, lower than the average 0.76% costs for traditional bond funds.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 14, 2020

CDL has adopted global frameworks such as GRI Standards since 2008, IIRC's Integrated Reporting Framework since 2015, SDG Reporting since 2016, Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) since 2017, and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) in 2019.

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James Militzer

MAY 3, 2022

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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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Rahman graduated from Newfoundland’s Memorial University as a licensed engineer in 2017; by 2021, he was one of three Canadians appointed to the World Energy Council’s Future Energy Leaders program. But McEwen is quick to stress that collaboration is essential: “No one tackles sustainability alone, and it requires all disciplines.”

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3BL Media

JULY 28, 2022

Since 2017, more than 4,500 suppliers have engaged in Project Gigaton. Walmart raised $2 billion through its first green bond issuance to finance and advance its sustainability goals including renewable energy, zero waste, circular economy and sustainable transportation projects.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

She is at the center of the NGO’s working relationship with Walmart , among other retailers and consumer brands, helping it launch in 2017 an expansive strategy to reduce its chemical footprint for consumables by 10 percent by 2022. . She was executive producer of the 2017 documentary "Without a Net: The Digital Divide in America." .

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