Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

The report , published alongside the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2) and Proxy Impact, reviewed at least 527 shareholder resolutions filed on ESG issues for the current proxy season. The environment remains a central shareholder concern with more than 190 proposals filed, a near 20% increase on 2023.

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ESG Today

JUNE 29, 2023

The firm said that the newly created role reflects the critical role that sustainable investment and decarbonization will play in driving future client returns. He will also take over the responsibilities of current Global Head of Responsible Investment, Justin Travlos, who is leaving the business towards the end of 2023.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The growing trend to reclassify RI assets is happening around the world as regulators become more conscious of potential greenwashing and move against asset managers who cannot substantiate their responsible or sustainable investment claims. . Otherwise, it’s just more tea and biscuits.” .

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

The report , published alongside the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2) and Proxy Impact, reviewed at least 527 shareholder resolutions filed on ESG issues for the current proxy season. The environment remains a central shareholder concern with more than 190 proposals filed, a near 20% increase on 2023.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Difficulties in definition continue to thwart efforts to demonstrate the financial benefits of sustainable investments. Sustainable fund flows attracted US$37 billion of net new money in Q4 2022, with global sustainable fund assets reaching a total of US$2.5 ESG integration alone is not sufficient for inclusion.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including EQT, Aware Super, Candriam, Pensions for Purpose, M&G, Earth Capital, Impact Cubed, and Sphera. . Mostyn will step into the role from March 2023 after the planned retirement of current Chair Neil Cochrane.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 18, 2023

Measuring impact performance will help investors to identify strategies in pursuit of SDG goals, explains Sarah Wang, Manager of Impact Products, Morningstar Sustainalytics. 2023 marks the halfway point to the deadline for achieving the United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Federated Hermes, Finance Earth, BlackRock, SSEF, Advantage Capital and the IKEA Foundation. . It will also will invest in impactful businesses operating across the nature restoration value chain.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 15, 2023

At the time of speaking to EIOPA, 21 NCAs had not identified occurrences of greenwashing “due to resourcing constraints, low supply of products with sustainability features, and because the relevant sustainable finance requirements are new or not fully in force”. This week, the European Commission published a new package of measures.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 2, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including Janus Henderson, First Sentier, PGIM, US SIF and IIGCC. . Dunstan will begin her new role on 9 January 2023, and will be responsible for overseeing Janus Henderson’s responsible investing efforts.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

With ESMA flagging a tripling in the size of the SDG fund market between 2020 and 2023, impact-washing is also in their sights. Regulators are already pushing back against the risk of greenwashing with a range of fund disclosure , naming and labelling rules. The post Take Five: Into the Stratosphere appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 18, 2024

The TNFD formally launched its final recommendations on 18 September 2023. Between the 19 th and 20 th centuries, 95% of cabbage, 91% of corn, 94% of pea, and 81% of tomato varieties used in the United States were lost.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 9, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Franklin Templeton, RLAM, LifePath UK, DWS, Jenson and BNPP AM. . The transaction is expected to close in H1 2023 and is subject to regulatory approval by the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority.

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Chris Hall

JULY 21, 2022

Sindhu Krishna, Head of Sustainable Investments at Phoenix Group, explains how the asset owner is holding managers to account. And] get ahead of the curve as nature-related issues rise in importance in the business agenda and prepare for the future market adoption of the TNFD framework in 2023”. “We’re

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Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including LSEG, ISS ESG, Mercer, ICE, Euroclear, Scoot Science, Tumelo, GoldenSource and more. The EET enables asset managers to gather all reporting on the EU taxonomy, SFDR, MiFID and Insurance Distribution Directive requirements.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 20, 2023

UK-based investment manager Octopus Investments has launched its UK Affordable Housing strategy for institutional investors. The strategy will target initial commitments of between £200-£300 million across multiple closes in 2023, with the goal of delivering affordable homes to address the “ ongoing housing crisis ”.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Participating investors will focus on mobilizing companies deemed to be systemically important to the goal of reversing nature and biodiversity loss by 2030; the initiative is encouraging investor signatories to participate ahead of its spring 2023 launch. SOURCE: Ceres.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 9, 2024

In its current form, its contribution to real-world sustainability impact is limited,” the book reads. But it also offers reasons to be hopeful, as a wholesale reappraisal of sustainable investing – including the establishment of minimum ethical standards – could help investors to “make a difference”.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 17, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including BlackRock, Invesco, Franklin Templeton, SUSI Partners, AXA IM Alts, Octopus, KGAL and M&G. . The deal will see ten wind turbines built and in be operation by the end of 2023.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 10, 2024

Despite appearances, sustainable investments have quietly had a great year. Given the poor performance of green energy stocks and the chorus of opposition against anything viewed as “woke,” it’s easy to get lost in the narrative that the shine has worn off sustainable investing. But that’s not what I’m seeing.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 8, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including CBRE, NN Group, Nuveen, Shell Foundation, Low Carbon, Brown Advisory, and Aidu. . Privately-owned UK investment and asset management firm Low Carbon has announced its financial close on the Mörknässkogen wind farm in Finland.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 27, 2023

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including BNY Mellon, DWS, Milltrust Ventures, EFFV, SUSI Partners and responsAbility Investments.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 23, 2022

The draft provides “structure” for US companies already reporting climate-related information to investors, said Lisa Woll, CEO of the US Sustainable Investment Forum (US SIF). . All emissions disclosures would be phased in between 2023-2026. . Today’s proposal thus is driven by the needs of investors and issuers.” .

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Chris Hall

JUNE 16, 2023

Weak economic activity, high interest rates and myriad geopolitical pressures present significant headwinds for private equity, weighing down valuations and slowing investment at a time when the private capital is vital to accelerating the net zero transition. Put simply, the private equity market is in a challenging environment.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 21, 2024

The report was released in collaboration with the Local Pensions Partnership Investments (LPPI) and advisory firm The Good Economy – which co-founded the Place-Based Impact Investing Network alongside the Institute for Economic Development and the Impact Investing Institute last year. As of June 2023, around 4.4%

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Investors are increasingly considering sustainability beyond the risk management lens, with the global impact investing market reaching an estimated US$1.64 These would require EU-domiciled funds with impact-related labels to meet an 80% sustainable investment threshold.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 24, 2022

In comparison, the ESRSs support multiple pieces of EU sustainable investment legislation. . The ESRSs are designed to specify the information corporates will need to be disclosed under CSRD, providing an essential input to fuel Europe’s sustainable investment framework. . “ appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 8, 2023

It was developed in collaboration with Aviva, the Oliver Wyman Forum and 2X Global and will be tested by a group of investors over the course of 2023. In 2019, just 15% of the US$16.9 billion in climate-related venture capital funding went to start-ups with at least one female founder, BCG said.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

A design for life – The unquantifiable and unpredictable impact of artificial intelligence (AI) has propelled governance and regulation of the sector to the top of the agenda for investors and policymakers.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The UK government has “comprehensively failed” to set out a robust green industrial strategy to compete with other countries leading the way in the transition to net zero.

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James Militzer

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Just as investors are combining ESG principles with sustainable investing practices, the same could be done with gender-based analysis and socially responsible investing. The GBV-aware investing tool is currently under development and will be made publicly available online in 2023.

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Chris Hall

JULY 26, 2023

billion people live in these countries, and we need new approaches to lower risks and create investment there.” Mind the gap The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) World Investment Report 2023 finds that developing countries face a widening annual investment deficit as they work to achieve the SDGs by 2030.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Visit corporateknights.com in April 2023 to nominate any change agents under 30 that you think should be considered for next year’s list. And he hopes that his impact-investing management firm (which he co-founded and helped launch this summer) will play an important role in closing the US$2.5-trillion Stephanie Willsey.

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Sustainability Update

APRIL 5, 2023

In 2023, the focus of the investor letter is on the positive aspects of sustainable investing — with the theme, “Making Investing More Accessible, Affordable, and Transparent to More People is Core to Our Mission at BlackRock.” Included in the 2023 letter: The BlackRock Story. The reason? “As

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Chris Hall

MARCH 29, 2023

These regulatory moves are necessary for China to compete on the international stage on ESG, according to Dr Guo Peiyuan, Chairman of SynTao Green Finance, the founding organisation of China Sustainable Investment Forum (ChinaSIF). It is going to establish an office in Beijing in mid 2023,” says Peiyuan.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 13, 2024

Many investors also have weapons-focused exclusions enshrined in their investment policies. Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s 2024 statement on sustainable investing, for instance, alluded to its exclusionary framework – which included civilian firearms and controversial weapons.

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Sustainability Update

MARCH 8, 2023

Corporate sustainability leaders and savvy investment managers are asking, “huh? “why”? Consider that these three organizations have significant levels of investments in many publicly-traded companies.) It is expected that the Final Rule could be issued sometime in Q1 2023.

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