Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Larry Fink, the CEO of the largest investment firm in the world, wrote in his 2022 letter to CEOs: “It’s been two years since I wrote that climate risk is investment risk. On this score, as of January 31, 2022, the Clean200 has outperformed its MSCI ACWI peers by 3.94% since the Clean200 was launched in July of 2016.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 10, 2024

It was a different story in 2022. It didn’t help that tech companies in general have had a rough time since 2022, and now higher interest rates are negatively affecting utilities with high up-front capital costs for large green energy projects. Divestment is different from ESG, which is different from impact investing.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In 2016, we created the Clean200 in response to investors saying, ‘If we divest fossil fuels, there is nothing to invest in.’” trillion in sustainable revenue in 2022, deriving on average 54.7% The Clean200 uses negative screens. through those years. In total, Clean200 companies earned more than $2.2

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In the 2022 report, it was followed by board issues (US$2.87 Managers also reported applying fossil fuel divestment screens across US$1.2 There were also more climate change-related shareholder proposals (265) filed by investors in the two years to mid-2022, compared with the previous period, said the US SIF Foundation.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Energy think tank Ember revealed that global growth in electricity demand (389 TWh) was met entirely by renewable sources in H1 2022. Divestment from Russian investments was a complex affair and an incomplete one. From black to red – There were mixed signals on the pace of the renewable energy transition this week.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The common use of ‘materiality’ and ‘scenario analysis’ reported by managers suggests these are already prevalent topics, while scarce mentions of ‘divestment effectiveness assessment’ or ‘enlightened active ownership’ “is consistent with the view that, in general, they are future behaviours,” the report said.

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