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 2021 from US$17.1 trillion at the end of 2019, according to a new report from the US Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment (US SIF). Portfolios classified as responsible investments dropped to $3.0

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Cryptocurrencies have been condemned over their environmental record at a time when traditional investments have been rapidly moving towards greener environmental, social and governance (ESG) values. So how long will it be until crypto earns its green credentials?

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Total put an impressive 34% of its total investment capital into sustainable projects – up from 26% in 2021. BP, in second place, directed 26% of its investments to green activities in 2022, up from 19%. Suncor invested 10.4% of its capital on green projects in 2022.

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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.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 13, 2025

According to the report, debt financing remains the dominant source of sustainable investment flows, with green European bond issuance exceeding 200 billion every year since 2021. Outstanding green loans stood at 908 billion in 2023 while green bond volumes reached 781 billion.

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3BL Media

JUNE 23, 2022

Recent sustainability highlights covered in MetLife’s report include: Originating over $6 billion in new green investments and MetLife Foundation providing more than $1 million in climate-focused grants. Reducing GHG emissions by 21% between 2020 and 2021 and planting more than 200,000 trees around the world since 2020.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 3, 2025

Adopted in 2021 and coming into effect for the 2024 financial year, the CSRD is the regulatory framework requiring firms to file social and environmental data and impact reports. Here are the main rollbacks proposed in the initial package.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 20, 2024

In a survey of 200 European and North American fund managers with social and environmental exclusions, 37% of funds reported having a nuclear energy screen in 2022, down from 43% in 2021. The company issued a $500-million offering in late 2021 and two additional issues of $600 million each for a total of $1.7

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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.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2025

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.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The new fund is launching with $400 million in commitments at its first close, with initial investors including Toyota Motor Corporation, Iwatani Corporation, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, MUFG Bank, Tokyo Century Corporation, Japan Green Investment Corp. for Carbon Neutrality, and the Bank of Fukuoka.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 18, 2023

This legacy no doubt contributed to her 2021 appointment as the inaugural chair of Canada’s Sustainable Finance Action Council, as well as Corporate Knights' 2023 Lifetime Award of Distinction.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Green finance – typically global bond, loans, and other long-term markets – has reached almost US$2 trillion in volume. Annual green bond issuance broke through the half trillion mark for the first time, ending 2021 at US$522.7 CAGR between 2021-2027, to be worth US$657 billion by the end of 2027. from 2021 to 2026.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The ECB’s findings were published with the results of its second economy-wide climate stress test, following the first stress test in 2021, aimed at assessing the impact of various climate transition pathways on companies, households, and financial institutions in the Euro area. trillion in the other.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Founded in 2021, Zug, Switzerland-based Atlas Agro is building industrial-scale green nitrogen fertilizer plants in the U.S. According to Macquarie, the investment in Atlas Agro is aligned with the asset manager’s next phase of energy transition thesis in the U.S.,

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In 2021, the government unveiled plans to roughly double the share of renewable energy to 36%-38% of the energy mix by 2030, from less than 20%. Japan has committed to reach net zero emissions by 2050, with an interim 2030 goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 46% by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2020

This unfair exclusion means that a number of clean heat projects, with insufficient time to complete by 31st March 2021, could be abandoned.”. Green investments on processing sites will decarbonise the supply chain while boosting local economies, creating green jobs and new skills.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 30, 2021

S&B USA (previously Shikun and Binui America) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of Brazoria West Solar Project with 260 megawatts (MWdc) (200 MWac) of planned solar energy capacity from Savion, part of Macquarie’s Green Investment Group.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Investors have been in limbo for six months about the future of the regulation, which provides guidelines on the disclosures required of green investment vehicles. Proxy categorisation system Introduced in 2021, SFDR was initially intended as a transparency regime imposing disclosure requirements for fund managers.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The new investment follows BMW’s announcement in 2021 to expand company efforts to combat climate change, including goals to significantly reduce vehicle emissions throughout the lifecycle, reduce CO2 emissions by 40% per vehicle by 2030, and make a minimum of 50% of its global sales from battery electric vehicles by 2030.

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ESG Today

MAY 2, 2024

Despite the strength in most segments, however, sustainability-linked bond (SLB) issuance declined sharply in the quarter to $10 billion, down from $22 billion in the prior year quarter, marking the lowest quarter since Q1 2021.

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ESG Today

MAY 11, 2023

For the report, the latest edition of the MSCI Net-Zero Tracker, MSCI assessed the climate change progress of companies within the MSCI All Country World Investable Market Index (ACWI IMI), and included data from its “Implied Temperature Rise” metric.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 20, 2022

According to a 2021 OECD report , nature-related dependencies, impacts and risks are poorly understood and almost entirely uncompensated for in the financial sector. This leads to capital misallocation that ultimately undermines the wellbeing of society.

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Cisco CSR

DECEMBER 13, 2022

By creating sustainable financial offers, prioritizing green investment mechanisms and reallocation of capital, financing sustainable programs, and tracking the carbon footprint tracking of transactions, FIs can incentivize the integration of sustainability criteria into financial services decision-making.

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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

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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 a green project anyway?

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 28, 2025

Small firms are keen to become more energy-efficient, says the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), but they are being held back by the high upfront cost of green investment. When FSB asked small businesses a similar question in 2021, energy costs only made third place.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

In previous years, AIGCC found that investors were relying on third-party ESG data service providers and other globally available standards such as the EU Taxonomy to define net zero, low carbon or climate aligned investments. The situation looks to be improving as it was cited by 56% of respondents in 2020, falling to 45% in 2021.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In the CBI’s Spring Budget submission, we call on the Chancellor to establish a Net Zero Investment Plan – to identify green investment gaps and implement policy aimed at crowding in private finance. billion of private investment during 2021-2022. “It’s clear that action is required to grow our net zero economy.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 8, 2023

times more equity value in fossil fuel production companies (US$880 billion) than in green investments (US$309 billion). Green investments were calculated according to the criteria of the EU taxonomy. Analysing US$16.4 Schroders and BNP Paribas AM have a 2.7 times compared to the average asset manager in the sample.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Outstanding Service Award (sponsored by Green Investment Group). The shortlist for the Young and Inspiring Award, sponsored by WSP, consists of the eight winners of May’s 2021 Young Professionals Green Energy Awards and the non-enterable Judges Award, sponsored by Ocean Winds, will see the winner announced on the night.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Asset managers decide to re-label existing funds as green investment vehicles for two reasons, according to Paul Lacroix, Head of Structuring at Smart Beta specialist investment firm Ossiam, an affiliate of Natixis. The first is client demand for investment solutions that are ESG-based,” he tells ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The ETF Product link was established by an MOU signed in December 2021 , and will enable Singaporean and Chinese investors to use feeder ETFs listed locally to access each other’s exchanges.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Having launched its framework in November 2022, the TPT aims to finalise its disclosure framework and implementation guidance and will develop sectoral guidance.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The offering follows the publication last month by Comcast of its Green Financing Framework, outlining eligible use of proceeds for green bond offerings, as well as the guidelines for project evaluation and selection, management of proceeds, and reporting obligations. Comcast announced its 2035 carbon neutrality goal in 2021.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 28, 2025

of GDP, and for this to become the principal engine of economic growth, was clearly beyond the horizon of possibility at the time of Sunaks March 2021 green industrial strategy, and Reeves and Starmers pre-election Green Prosperity Plan, which promised 28 billion per year of green investment.

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Chris Hall

MAY 13, 2022

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. According to a Shift analysis , among the private companies it owns, it boosted emissions reporting to 56% in 2020, up from 37% in 2019.

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