Corporate Knights

JANUARY 12, 2023

And won’t it make essential green investments more difficult? The Bank of Canada believes that it needs to cool demand , enabling supply to catch up, and its way of doing this is to increase interest rates, even if it causes a recession, increases unemployment and makes those essential green investments harder.

Banking

Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Despite its lauded Green Taxonomy , which should position the EU to rival the US, limited State aid, ambiguity of the legislation, and a lack of incentives and legal obligations imposed on companies, has resulted in limited uptake from investors in Europe and delays in tangible action.

Green Investing

ESG Today

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The agreement marks a continued collaboration between HSBC and IFC, following the previous joint launch of the HSBC Real Economy Green Investment Opportunity GEM Bond Fund (REGIO), which reached investor commitments of nearly $540 million at final close in 2022.

Green Investing

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

There are also tracker funds available for investors, such as the BNP Paribas Easy ECPI Circular Economy Leaders UCITS ETF launched in 2019. The post A New Frontier for Green Investment appeared first on ESG Investor.

Green Investing

ESG Today

AUGUST 31, 2023

The UK government legislated a target to reach net zero emissions by 2050 in 2019, and in the following years announced a series of policies and investment pledges aimed at reaching its goal, including plans to accelerate the shift to low carbon transportation, build out clean energy capacity, and help decarbonize industry.

Net Zero

Carbon 49

JUNE 24, 2019

At the 2019 Collision Conference Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna shared a panel discussion with Jonathan Baillie , Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist of the National Geographic Society. Planet:tech is a major track at Collision Conference 2019. ]

Green Investing

3BL Media

JULY 19, 2023

MIM is a well-established global investment manager with specialist investment teams who incorporate relevant, financially material ESG factors into their risk management-focused investment processes. 1 Represents responsible investments managed by MIM at estimated fair value as of December 31, 2022.

Net Zero

Renewable Energy World

JUNE 29, 2021

A 2020 report co-authored by Amundi and the IFC pointed out that investment flows since the start of the COVID-19 crisis have proven more resilient towards green investments when compared to their traditional counterparts. What is the potential of green bonds to address this imbalance?

Green Bonds

3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Shewakramani said doing good is a “competitive advantage” in terms of how the 49-year-old business looks at green investments. Busana Apparel Group ranks among the largest garment manufacturers and exporters globally, with 24 global facilities and a number of Leed Certifications from the Green Building Council.

Decarbonize

Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

Now we can measure this green business exposure for the majority of companies and are able to count annual green investments that run into the trillions, growing six times faster than the economy at large,” Heaps says. “We did the best job possible with limited qualitative corporate disclosure.” “Now

Manufacturing

ESG Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Noting the impact on governments of the increase in global public debt to 92% of GDP in 2022 from 84% in 2019, and rising interest rates, Yael Selfin, Chief Economist, KPMG in the UK, said “it leaves less room for them to spend on meeting net zero targets.”

Net Zero

James Militzer

MAY 19, 2022

Meanwhile, most people – 79% overall and 90% of investors under age 45 – say they want to invest in socially and environmentally friendly ways. For instance, McDonald’s is one of the world’s largest beef purchasers, and it generated more greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 than entire countries.

Greenwashing

Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Normal 0 false false false TR X-NONE X-NONE Between October 31 and November 2, 2019, Prof. Professor Sachs delivered a speech on the SDGs and the economic and political relations of Turkey with neighboring countries pointing towards peace as a baseline condition for sustainable development and green investment. Dr. Jeffrey D.

UNEP

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2020

100 billion green investment. Analysis conducted by UK100 and Siemens, shows that a £5bn investment by the Government could unlock £100bn of private sector investment toward meeting the Net Zero goals by 2050. Many of these are outlined in a framework of technical standards for retrofit, known as PAS 2035/2030:2019.

Net Zero

Chris Hall

MAY 13, 2022

Last September, OTPP committed to reduce its portfolio carbon emission intensity by 45% by 2025 and 67% by 2030, compared to a 2019 baseline. But OTPP was described as “raising the bar for climate leadership among Canadian pension funds”, following the publication of its 2021 Annual Responsible Investing and Climate Change Report.

Net Zero

Chris Hall

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The exploitation ended in 2019, but had lasted four years due to undetected red flags including excessive overtime, multiple employees at a single address and wages being paid into accounts held in other people’s names. Evidently this matters to the rest of the world too, both from an economic and environmental perspective.

Banking

Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In fact, the review noted an absence of climate policy certainty for businesses and investors, which has limited the materialisation of long-term, stable investment plans.

Net Zero

We Mean Business Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This article was first published in Forbes Today 100 CEOs announced a push for governments to boost the business case for green investment, in the run-up to COP29 in Azerbaijan. But the company says its carbon intensity, which measures how much it emits per dollar of sales, has actually decreased by 34% since 2019.

Paris Agreement

Chris Hall

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Enterprise green bonds, issued by state-owned enterprises (SOEs), have yet to apply the Green Bond Principles. SOEs accounted for about half the onshore green issuances from 2019 to 2022. However, it offers capital providers certainty about which kinds of assets would be accepted as green investments in both regions.

Green Bonds

Chris Hall

JUNE 29, 2023

In 2021, rebounding fossil fuel prices had already lifted fossil fuel consumption subsidies to US$532 billion, roughly 20% above 2019’s pre-pandemic levels.

Net Zero

Chris Hall

JANUARY 24, 2022

The successful bidders include Shell, BP, Ocean Winds, Vattenfall, SSE Renewables, Falck Renewables, DEME, BayWa, Northland Power, Magnora Offshore Wind, and Offshore Wind Power, a joint venture between Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG), TotalEnergies and RIDG.

Net Zero

Corporate Knights

JANUARY 3, 2023

Against this backdrop of net-zero commitments, investors, regulators and the media started paying more attention to the staggering growth in assets claimed to be invested under sustainable or responsible strategies. for example, assets defined as “sustainable” tripled between 2013 and 2019, from US$6.6 sustainable investment, to US$8.4

Net Zero

Eco-Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

BANGKOK, November 19 2019 - USAID is partnering with Rabo Foundation to accelerate the foundation's ability to invest sustainably by designing and conducting carbon monitoring of the foundation's investments.

Sustainable Investment

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

A recent report by global network Convergence noted a 60% decrease in the scaling of climate-focused blended finance transactions between 2019-21 compared to 2016-18, with adaptation especially an “underdeveloped area”. .

Net Zero

Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 28, 2019

He also highlighted the importance of green investments, which are at the baseline of green economic growth. The Summit was also place to the launch of The Sustainable Development Report 2019 – Mediterranean Countries Edition , which included integrated contents and tables focusing on 23 Mediterranean countries.

Shipping

Chris Hall

JULY 29, 2022

Ranstrand is also a board member at Belimo and served on the board of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste between 2019-2021. Mosley serves on numerous boards, including Eaton Vance, Progress Investment Management Company and New York State’s Common Retirement Pension Fund, and is a former Partner at Wellington Management Company.

Banking

Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

There remains, however, much uncertainty about the new administration’s plans to bolster green investment flows and support the development of low-carbon power sources and energy efficiency initiatives. Failing to follow through.

Net Zero

CleanTechnica

MARCH 31, 2021

When BlackRock chairman Laurence Fink first began rethinking his company’s stance on climate change, he turned to Tariq Fancy to help him figure out what “green” investing should look like. In 2018 and 2019, Fancy was the company’s chief investment officer for sustainable investing.

Green Investing

CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Environmentally, socially, and governance shareholder proposals and employee concerns are swaying corporate policies -- and investment opportunities.

Green Investing