Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including FTSE Russell, BondLink, Moody’s, Intercontinental Exchange and more. . It consists of two indexes, the FTSE JPX Net Zero Japan 500 index and the FTSE JPX Net Zero Japan 200 index.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

-based financial publication The Banker to produce the world’s first list of green-ish banks ranked by the percentage of revenues they earn through sustainable lending, underwriting and investments. Corporate Knights researchers ranked 60 banks for which they found quantifiable sustainable-revenue data from an initial pool of 91 banks.

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Jon Hale

JULY 26, 2022

Sustainability Matters More capital is needed to address climate change and other sustainability issues. Sustainable investing can be a win-win for emerging-markets investors. It can be impactful, playing an important role in allocating capital to address climate change and other sustainability issues.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2024

CalSTRS Sustainable Investment Director Kirsty Jenkinson talks about taking a hard line on companies failing to disclose emissions properly and treating proxy voting as seriously as portfolio investments.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2024

“Such assessments will also need to be regionalised, as different jurisdictions have access to different technologies and capital.” Last year, Robeco extended its Sustainable Investing (SI) Open Access Initiative to the public. There’s a lot of greenhushing going on because the industry expects perfection.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 2, 2022

As responsible investors search for the most sustainable companies to back, the outcomes of these debates could not be more important for global efforts to rapidly cut emissions. Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, thousands of companies have voluntarily set ambitious, science-based emissions reduction targets.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The ruling referred to ads displayed in bus stops in London and Bristol in October 2021, in the run-up to the COP26 climate conference, promoting HSBC’s initiatives to provide up to $1 trillion in finance and investment to help clients transition to net zero, and to help plant 2 million trees.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 23, 2024

Policies, regulations and wider laws are among the many elements that set the path and guide them on their journey to net zero. Its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reached 467 million tonnes in the year running up to June 2023 – four million tonnes above 2022 figures.

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3BL Media

MARCH 1, 2022

DESCRIPTION: An asset management firm has unveiled its engagement priorities for 2022 to continue to support companies focusing on positive sustainability outcomes. We support companies on that journey, but in 2022, a key focus of our work will also be holding companies accountable on their commitments.”. by Georgina Sell.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 31, 2023

The protocol outlines how the 84 alliance members, with a collective US$11 trillion in assets, can align their sub-portfolio decarbonisation targets with net zero. Bolli was co-lead author of the protocol report, alongside Udo Riese, Global Head of Sustainable Investing at Allianz Investment Management.

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Chris Hall

JULY 1, 2022

This is the assessment of Eric Usher, Head of the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) which brings together the United Nations and the financial sector to develop responsible investment agendas. For example, the Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance is not led by sustainability teams, it’s typically CIOs who are driving it.”.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 29, 2024

Ever since the chamber successfully lobbied to torpedo the biggest piece of climate legislation to reach Congress – the Build Back Better Act – in 2022, more and more members have indicated that if the organization doesn’t change its tune, they’ll be cutting ties. Ninety percent of the world has set a net-zero target.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

The UK’s Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) hit a significant milestone last week with the release of its final set of transition plan resources to help businesses mobilise finance for the net zero transition. Some companies may also need to tap into some form of government support.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Role of active stewardship across environmental and social themes emphasised at ESG Risk & Investment Asia 2022. . An investor’s decision to divest “doesn’t mean an end to all ESG-focused engagement with that company”, according to Eric Nietsch, Head of Sustainable Investing for Asia at Manulife Investment Management. .

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Chris Hall

MAY 4, 2022

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a company transitioning to net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 or sooner is in want of a detailed plan. . How do they translate on a net zero journey? UK proposals to mandate climate transition plans are part of wider scrutiny effort. .

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In the race to net zero, Victoria Judd, Counsel at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, explains how the US is lapping the UK and EU in stimulating its green economy. trillion of annual global investments may be required to achieve the emissions reduction aims for 2030, with possibly 70% coming from the private sector.

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Chris Hall

MAY 22, 2024

In 2022, the oil and gas industry invested just 2.5% Last year, Shell invested US$5.6 billion in low-carbon solutions – 23% of its total capital spending – but its investment in renewables and energy solutions simultaneously fell to 11% (US$2.7 billion), down from 14% in 2022. Last year, Shell invested US$5.6

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Competition barriers to collective sustainability initiatives by investors expected to be lowered. Regulators will soon provide investors with clearer guidance on the acceptable boundaries of collective action to achieve net zero and other sustainability objectives, according to competition lawyers.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 24, 2022

Consistent data on sovereign climate risks is crucial, says Victoria Barron, ASCOR Chair and Head of Sustainable Investment, BT Pension Scheme. Governments know they must attract ESG investors to sovereign debt if they are to meet their net zero carbon emission targets by 2050. billion at the end of 2020.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 31, 2022

Sustainable investment experts predicted an even greater emphasis by investors on public policy, at a recent roundtable held by S&P Global Sustainable1 and ESG Investor. First, our roundtable participants surveyed the existing regulatory landscape for sustainable investing. Positive trajectory.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 30, 2023

This week, the ISSB delivered its long-awaited sustainability standards, to overwhelming but not universal acclaim. Double trouble – Undoubtedly, the most significant development in sustainable investment this week was the release of its first two standards by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB).

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 19, 2022

“Forests are essential both for preventing dangerous climate change, catastrophic biodiversity loss, and for securing the human rights and livelihoods of more than a billion people,” said Vemund Olsen, Senior Analyst – Sustainable Investments at Storebrand Asset Management. Natural risk. Biodiversity decline.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Pillars of the post-WW2 global financial system are not yet on the same page for climate risk and sustainable development. Immediately and gradually – The IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook calculated that keeping on track to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement by 2030 would cost between 0.15-0.25% of inflation a year. “If

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Chris Hall

JULY 27, 2022

Sustainable bond issuance in Asia ex-Japan rose to a record US$85 billion in 2021, according to Refinitiv data, and the market is expected to almost double in 2022, and quadruple by 2025. . Conditions are also “ripe”, as a Moody’s report asserts, for the increased issuance of sovereign sustainable bonds in the region. .

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Climate adaptation finance is also important for risk management of net zero assets, according to the UK’s Green Finance Institute.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 16, 2023

The High Seas Treaty provides the certainty needed for greater sustainable investment into the ocean, says Karen Sack, Executive Director at the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA). They are also cost-effective investments that will help meet the Paris Agreement and Global Biodiversity Framework targets.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 13, 2023

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including NatureAlpha, Verdantix, Solactive, Minerva Analytics, Euronext, Joulea, and Clarity AI. C goal of the Paris Agreement. index looks to respond to the growing demand for sustainable investment tools.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 10, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including 2DII, RMI, Nasdaq, Clarity AI, ISSB, Integrum and Accenture. . The think tank also launched a climate stress test simulation game in partnership with the University of London’s SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 16, 2023

C is rapidly falling out of reach , despite the fact most net zero commitments set by governments, investors and companies target a 1.5°C What investors can do instead is continue to demand net zero transition plans aligned with 1.5°C “This summer is giving us a mere taste of our future, and we’re still only at 1.3°C

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The GBF’s Goal D, on implementation, contained an unambiguous commitment to aligning public and private financial flows to its overall objectives, with supporting language in the enabling targets, analogous to the Paris Agreement clauses that put climate change on the global agenda in 2015. “We Beyond climate.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 28, 2023

Opening exchanges – After the 2022 proxy season featured some notable victories for shareholders, but decidedly mixed support for ESG resolutions overall, climate-related vote outcomes were always going to be closely watched at this early stage in the AGM calendar. GW between offshore windfarms and Dutch and British homes.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 2, 2023

Sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) are widely seen as playing a central role in the transition to a low-carbon aviation industry, itself regarded as a key element of the global economy’s net zero trajectory. The aviation sector’s overall global environmental contribution is 2.5% of carbon emissions and 3.5%

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2022

Management of nature-related risks, impacts and dependencies could soon become central to asset owners’ sustainable investment strategies. The 2015 Paris Agreement set a single goal, of keeping climate change to 2°C above pre-industrial levels, albeit modified in 2018 to 1.5°C Article 2.1.c

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Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2023

In the US alone, 529 shareholder resolutions on environmental, social and related sustainable governance themes were filed during the 2022 proxy season, a 20% increase on the previous year, according to the Proxy Preview. Transparency is improving, but slowly.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2022

According to analysts Circle Economy, adding circular economy solutions to countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement will enable global temperature rises to be kept “well below” 2?C. As of 11 April 2022, the fund was worth US$2.187 billion. circular – two years before it was 9%.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

That’s three times better than the average large publicly traded company with more than US$1 billion in overall revenue, which earned 16% of its revenue from sustainable sources. When it comes to sustainable investments, it’s the same story. None of this means we can rest on our laurels. trillion).

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3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2023

China’s oil demand declined in 2022 for the first time this century as the nation jumped from one lockdown to the next. In 2022, consumption of oil in the industrial sector boomed as gas prices spiked, and with economics for oil burn favorable in 2023 despite declining spot LNG prices, demand looks set to remain strong.

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