Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Investment in adaptation offers significant opportunities that are yet to be comprehensively tapped,” said Rena Pulido, Head of Sustainable Investment Australia at IFM Investors, a A$221.7 It will be important for taxonomies to include adaptation to further mobilise much needed investment in adaptation,” she told ESG Investor.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The government has failed to act on a key recommendation in the Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance’s 2019 report to work “deeply hand-in-hand” with Canada’s largest companies on decarbonization plans for their sectors, Chisholm said. “We’re not winning this game, and we need to be a lot more aggressive.”

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APRIL 1, 2025

The success of this engagement led Rathbones to launch Votes Against Slavery (VAS) in 2019. Corporate league table Rathbones is also on the steering committee of CCLA Investment Managements Find it, Fix it and Prevent it (FFP) initiative, which was established in 2019 to increase transparency around companies modern slavery risks.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

ASIFMA is a trade association that supports the development of capital markets throughout APAC. Kwan joined the association in 2019 to help asset managers in the region deal with the increasing amount of sustainability-related requirements they are facing from regulators. But Kwan remains optimistic.

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3BL Media

JULY 8, 2025

In my past decade as CEO, I’ve encouraged and supported this work at Principal and am proud of our accomplishments—including establishing our Sustainability Task Force, developing a strategy, and issuing our first public commitments. Added more sustainable investment options to meet increasing client demand.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 7, 2025

could see more green investors look towards China, says Cary Krosinsky, President of the Sustainable Finance Institute. A few years ago, the Sustainable Finance Institute (SFI), developed a new ESG+ index for the China Securities Index Company ESG with Chinese characteristics, as Cary Krosinsky, the SFIs Co-Founder and President, calls it.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Sustainable investing assets in the United States have plunged by more than half to US$8.4 trillion at the end of 2019, according to a new report from the US Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment (US SIF). trillion in total assets in 2019. trillion in total assets in 2019. trillion in 2014.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 10, 2024

Despite appearances, sustainable investments have quietly had a great year. Given the poor performance of green energy stocks and the chorus of opposition against anything viewed as “woke,” it’s easy to get lost in the narrative that the shine has worn off sustainable investing. But that’s not what I’m seeing.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

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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Corporate Knights

MARCH 24, 2023

Between January 1, 2019, and March 22, 2023, the value of the top quintile of the SEI grew 146%, compared to 47% for the MSCI ACWI. Now is the time to identify and stake out positions in the companies that are investing in a low-carbon sustainable future,” says Heaps.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Sustainable investing approaches aim to deliver attractive returns through investments in issuers that contribute to positive social and environmental outcomes. Yet this massive opportunity can also create risks, because there is a smaller pool of sustainable investment targets to choose from. About the Authors.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

For all the sustainability reporting that companies serve up each year, it doesn’t always represent the kinds of data that investors need to assess corporate risk and opportunity. GreenFin 21 is the natural evolution of the GreenFin Summits we ran at our GreenBiz conferences in 2019 and 2020. Tower of Babel. Fully 96 percent of U.S.

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ESG Today

JULY 11, 2022

Investment giant BlackRock has made a series of appointments to its BlackRock Sustainable Investing (BSI) team, according to an internal memo seen by ESG Today, including the hiring of Lombard Odier’s Head of Sustainable Investment Research & Strategy as Deputy Head of BSI.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

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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Corporate Knights

MARCH 8, 2023

Shilpa Tiwari is executive vice-president of social impact and sustainability at Citizen Relations and the founder of Her Climb. In 2015, the United Nations established the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – a blueprint of 17 ways to make the world a more just, inclusive and sustainable place.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 24, 2023

Between January 1, 2019, and March 22, 2023, the value of the top quintile of the SEI grew 146%, compared to 47% for the MSCI ACWI. Now is the time to identify and stake out positions in the companies that are investing in a low-carbon sustainable future,” says Heaps.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

In the 2024 Global 100 ranking, the top-ranked firms allocated 55% of their investments to sustainable projects, up from 47% the year prior. That compares with sustainable investments at a paltry 17% among the broader universe of publicly traded companies with more than US$1 billion in annual revenue.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 26, 2024

New figures showed that carbon emissions in 2022 fell to “significantly lower” than pre-pandemic levels in 2019, giving hope that Canada can meet its net-zero commitments. Crucially, the companies’ average sustainable investment (as a percentage of total investment) hit 58.9% for the average large Canadian corporation.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 14, 2025

Driven by irrefutable and irreversible economic logic that has and will continue to withstand political backsliding and resistance from entrenched incumbents, sustainable revenue and sustainable investment are outpacing average growth rates. Companies with sustainability data for 2019 forward included in the charts had USD $26.7

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3BL Media

MARCH 21, 2022

According to Morgan Stanley Research from 2019, a more diverse workforce, as represented by women across all levels of the organization, is correlated with higher average returns. Incorporating Gender Diversity Into Investment Portfolios. For example, investing in companies providing products and services that benefit women and girls.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The value of portfolios classified as responsible investments (RI) dropped from $3.2 trillion on December 31, 2019, to $3 trillion at the end of 2021, according to the 2022 Canadian Responsible Investment Trends Report published last week by the Responsible Investment Association (RIA). .

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 17, 2023

G100 Rank Company HQ Location Carbon Productivity % Non-Male Board Directors % Sustainable Revenue % Sustainable Investment Final Grade Climate Commitments. 21 8 Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure PLC Brentford, U.K. 28 5 City Developments Ltd Singapore, Singapore $19,968 22% 73% 76% B+ 1.5°C, 2019 GLOBAL 100.

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3BL Media

JUNE 22, 2022

The company has been carbon neutral for its scope 1 and 2 emissions since 2019. We are putting our 1 billion square foot portfolio to good use for our customers every day,” said Prologis Chief Energy and Sustainability Officer Susan Uthayakumar. These include: 1 GW of solar generation capacity (supported by storage) by 2025. “We

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Founded in 2019, London-based Pollination works with financial institutions, large companies, and governments to implement net zero and nature-positive transition strategies, with expertise provided in areas including finance, investment, corporate governance and strategy, technology, law, and policy.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 7, 2024

We hope this collaboration demonstrates the financial market opportunity in funding sustainability to help bridge the financing gap for EM corporate issuers whose activities are aligned with and positively contribute to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.”

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The three papers recognized this year study three very different topics, but each represents an exemplary effort to deepen our understanding of sustainable investment,” says Lloyd Kurtz , founder of the Moskowitz Prize and again one of the judges this year. So quantifying biodiversity risk is paramount.

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2022

At the same time, the world cannot afford to slacken its pace in meeting global, long-standing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It provides a range of social, economic and environmental benefits, and helps fulfill all 17 of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. The AI market alone is expected to reach $4.5

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 6, 2022

SUMMARY: Aligned With the Paris Agreement and Approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), JetBlue Commits to Reduce Jet Fuel Emissions 50% Per Revenue Tonne Kilometer by 2035 From 2019 Levels. Charting a path to net zero.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The appointment follows the announcement earlier this year of BNPP AM’s 2025 strategic ambitions, which focus primarily on extending its sustainable investing capabilities and offerings, with the goal to become “the sustainable asset manager of reference in Europe.”

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Sustainable Development Network

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Renewable energy is core to the implementation of SDG 7 (access to affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy) and SDG 13 (urgent action to combat climate change). The draft report was released on January 15, 2019, and is available for public consultation until April 15, 2019.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Ethan Talbot Schwartz 27, Toronto/Montreal consultant, CPCS Transcom As an associate with JCM Power, Ethan Talbot Schwartz led the development of renewable energy projects in Malawi, the world’s fifth-poorest country. There are more jobs in sustainability and impact than there ever have been,” says Perry. “A

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Difficulties in definition continue to thwart efforts to demonstrate the financial benefits of sustainable investments. Sustainable fund flows attracted US$37 billion of net new money in Q4 2022, with global sustainable fund assets reaching a total of US$2.5

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ESG Today

JULY 18, 2023

Ricardo Mourinho Félix, EIB Vice-President, said: “I’m very pleased to announce this project with Banco Santander (Brasil) that will enable private sector investments in renewable energy, reduce carbon emissions and air pollution, and support additional renewable generation capacity in Brazil.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Green Equity Designations 1 Nasdaq launched Green Equity Designations on the Nordic markets in 2021 in response to increased demand for sustainable investments and extensive growth in Nasdaq Sustainable Bond Markets. The platform also provides issuer-level information on UN Sustainable Development Goals allocation.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 11, 2021

The Inter-American Development Bank and the SDSN published a special edition of the SDG Index focused on Uruguay. The report benchmarks Uruguay's progress on the Sustainable Development Goals against progress of OECD countries. Achieving the SDGs requires closing the financing gap.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The global education goal, part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), remains significantly off track. A 2019 study by Deloitte found that 76% of millennials view entrepreneurship as a key vehicle for driving social impact.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 5, 2024

Realizing that climate impacts threaten more than supply chains and physical infrastructure, we made the commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2050, using our 2019 baseline. In addition, we use tracking programs to monitor and manage our environmental performance and calculate our annual carbon footprint.

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