Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

Skip to ranking BY Shawn McCarthy January 17, 2024 As 2023 came to a close, the World Meteorological Organization declared it to be the hottest year on record. In the 2024 Global 100 ranking, the top-ranked firms allocated 55% of their investments to sustainable projects, up from 47% the year prior. “The top the 2024 ranking.

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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

APRIL 9, 2024

On the world stage at Davos 2024, Canada’s minister of finance, Chrystia Freeland, declared that “right now we’re living through a moment which is comparable only to the Industrial Revolution.”

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Eco-Business

MAY 6, 2025

Across the region, private investments in green projects saw a substantial 43-per-cent increase year on year, led by solar deals. But progress is uneven and Southeast Asia struggles to close an annual funding gap of US$50 billion by 2030.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Following these pressures, ESMA noted that “the uptake of ESG investing and the growth of ESG markets levelled off in 2023, and that investor interest in products with sustainability features appears to have remained relatively flat in the first half of 2024, with Article 9 funds seeing net outflows of €9.4

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Corporate Knights does not consider new nuclear power projects to be “green” in its Sustainable Economy Taxonomy. In its fall fiscal update, the federal government introduced an investment tax credit of up to 30% for clean energy technologies, including SMRs. Keith Stewart, senior energy strategist with Greenpeace.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 30, 2024

The European Central Bank (ECB) announced today a decision to expand its work on climate change, releasing a new “climate and nature plan 2024-2025,” outlining its roadmap for action in these areas over the next two years. Click here to access the ECB’s climate and nature plan 2024-2025.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

billion) in climate transition bonds planned to be issued in the fiscal year starting April 2024. The government aims to issue the second tranche of the bonds on February 27, with JPY 1.4 trillion (USD$9.3

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3BL Media

APRIL 7, 2022

This marks the first of many major green investments that are already underway or on the immediate horizon which demonstrate our commitment to sustainable, responsible business.” Blue Sky is expected to reach commercial operation by December 2024. power grid. million in tax revenue over the life of the project, including $25.4

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 9, 2024

On the world stage at Davos 2024, Canada’s minister of finance, Chrystia Freeland, declared that “right now we’re living through a moment which is comparable only to the Industrial Revolution.”

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ESG Today

MAY 11, 2023

The IFRS Foundation, for example, recently announced that its new climate and sustainability reporting standards, which include Scope 3 reporting, and disclosure on climate risks and opportunities, will take effect in 2024.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 28, 2024

While Clean Energy and Clean Transportation maybe the sectors where potential Avoided Emissions are most likely to be found, and two of the most popular destinations for green investment, the question remains; do these sectors deliver the greatest relative climate “impact”?

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Another issue raised in the report is the need for financial institutionsto get to grips with the green asset ratio (GAR) and green investment ratio (GIR), both of which aim to quantify the proportion of sustainable investments in investment portfolios.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The CSRD took effect from the beginning of 2024 for large companies, with the first reports to be issued in 2025, followed by smaller companies in subsequent years.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 11, 2022

New report provides guidance to asset owners on closing net zero investment gap. . Asset owners should track their contributions to climate change mitigation by calculating the green investment ratio of portfolios and assets, according to a recent report by the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). .

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

It will also intensify its work on the effects of transition funding, green investment needs and transition plans, exploring the case for further changes to its monetary policy instruments and portfolios. These announcements followed the ECB’s third assessment of European banks’ progress on the disclosure of climate and environmental risks.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 19, 2024

The trial will run for at least 12 months and will apparently be operational from July 2024. “The pilot builds on enfinium’s broader ambitions to lead an investment of up to £800 million in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) at its Ferrybridge 1 & 2 facilities, which together would capture over 1.2

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 4, 2024

This week, the release of the 144-strong Net Zero Banking Alliance’s (NZBA) 2024 Progress Report gave investors more information from which to assess their climate orientation. Evidently this matters to the rest of the world too, both from an economic and environmental perspective.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Levick also noted that the taxonomy could be employed via initiatives such as a net zero test, which the UK might apply to all its public investment decisions, utilising the taxonomy to evaluate whether investments align with the its definition of ‘green’.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 30, 2022

The environmental taxonomy must implement minimum safeguards to ensure the EU isn’t “closing its eyes to the social impacts of greening its economies”, according to Signe Andreasen Lysgaard, Strategic Advisor on Business and Human Rights at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. .

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We Mean Business Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

The CSRD has already been adopted and will kick in from reporting year 2024. By addressing challenges and implementing recommended improvements, the EU Green Taxonomy can realize its full potential, contributing significantly to Europe’s climate goals and fostering a greener future for generations to come.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

“If you want to actually drive investment into properly green, properly regulated funds that aren’t lying about their green credentials, surely you have to have standards that allow that to happen,” she said. The proposed labels are expected to apply from 2024.

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We Mean Business Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This article was first published in Forbes Today 100 CEOs announced a push for governments to boost the business case for green investment, in the run-up to COP29 in Azerbaijan. The period from February 2023 to January 2024 reached 1.52C of warming, according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Green hydrogen infrastructure needs to be developed ‘hand in hand’ with renewable energy capacity, according to experts. Much of the heavy lifting of the energy transition will be done through the roll-out of renewable energy – the development of green hydrogen depends on it,” says Hervey-Bathurst. Circular argument.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 11, 2023

Shipping companies can also expect to gradually fall under the ETS, with 40% of their emissions covered from 2024, 70% by 2025 and 100% by 2026. . The EU further agreed that ETS free allowances will be almost halved by 2030 (48.5%) and entirely phased out by 2034, where it will be replaced by the CBAM. .

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

There remains, however, much uncertainty about the new administration’s plans to bolster green investment flows and support the development of low-carbon power sources and energy efficiency initiatives.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

All but two of 27 institutions surveyed in December 2024 remain committed to ESG integration, the report states. Internal ESG trailed in previous surveys, but in December 2024 it ranked second at 48%, a result the report calls a striking shift.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 12, 2024

PwC Luxembourgs third annual sustainable finance report found that in H1 2024 institutional investors had withdrawn 7.8 billion from funds classified as Article 9 under the EUs SFDR in Q3, according to Morningstar Sustainalytics , marking the fourth consecutive quarter of redemptions for the dark green funds. The country houses 45.7%

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 24, 2023

A green wave The IRA has set a number of new green investment opportunities into motion, with around US$28 billion in new manufacturing investments already announced by October 2022. One of the “biggest areas of opportunity” lies in solar energy, according to Lazard AM’s Singhal. gigawatts (GW) by 2024.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 2, 2025

In 2024, large U.S. In 2024, large U.S. companies rose sharply between 2021 and 2024, although overall support was 27% in 2024, down from 37% in 2021. By the second quarter of 2024, Morningstar estimates that net inflows had dropped to US$6.3 According to Morningstar data , the number of ESG resolutions at U.S.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 12, 2024

BBC reported : With energy watchdog the International Energy Agency reporting that global investment in clean technology is running at double the size of coal, oil and gas in 2024, the new U.S. administration might not want to drive this type of green investment into other, more eager countries.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Physical and transition risk Climate-related risks to the global economy cannot be ignored, no matter the plans and impacts of the new US administration. Science points to the facts. Moreover, 60% of projects and 68% of the jobs are in Republican-controlled areas , making it politically difficult to dismantle these policies entirely.

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