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EU ‘green’ label for gas and nuclear sparks sustainable investing crisis

Corporate Knights

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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£1.5 Trillion Investor Group Warns that Uncertainty on Climate Policy Threatens Investment in UK Net Zero Transition

ESG Today

Investors’ willingness to deploy capital to fund the UK’s net zero transition is at risk, as recent policy signals have reduced confidence in the government’s commitments to its climate policies, according to a new letter sent to Prime Minister Sunak by a group of financial institutions managing £1.5

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2025 Global 100 list: World's most sustainable companies are still betting on a greener world

Corporate Knights

With sustainable investment, its the same story, Heaps says. That green investment is key to a more sustainable future, telling us where companies are going as opposed to where they currently derive their revenues. Sustainable capital expenditure is growing twice as fast as all other capex. CLIMATE COMMITMENTS 1.5C

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Solar jobs are leading the clean energy surge, but a worker shortage looms

Corporate Knights

million jobs since 2019, according to the second annual World Energy Employment report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), published in November. That puts the total number of jobs in clean energy at 35 million in 2022, compared to just 32 million in oil, gas and coal. million fewer jobs than it did in 2019.

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High Cost of Decarbonization, ‘Green on Green’ Conflicts Holding Back Progress on Global Net Zero Goals: KPMG Report

ESG Today

Despite progress on scaling up low carbon energy production and industrial technologies, significant barriers remain in the way of the global ambition to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 and to limit temperature rise 1.5°C,

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White vans go green: Half a million builders and plumbers needed to reach Net Zero

Envirotec Magazine

New research published by UK100, a group of mayors and local government leaders in late September appears to show that a “retrofit army” of nearly half a million builders, electricians and plumbers will be needed to meet the Government’s objective of becoming Net Zero by 2050. 100 billion green investment.

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MetLife 2022 Sustainability Report: Creating Value as an Investor

3BL Media

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. 9 Read more about MetLife's Net Zero commitment. 9 Read more about MetLife's Net Zero commitment.

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