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Introducing … GreenFin 21

GreenBiz

Much of the action is taking place in Europe, where PwC predicted that ESG funds — "a central tenet of the investment landscape" — could outpace traditional funds by 2025. Still, the markets for sustainable investing and finance are young and the standards are evolving or, in some cases, don’t yet fully exist.

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The biggest carbon losers

Corporate Knights

While some investments are neutral (deemed neither “clean” nor “dirty”), in many cases these companies are still investing most of their capital into assets that will either lock in further GHG emissions or become stranded assets as the energy transition takes shape. For instance, 87% of oil giant BP’s 36.5-million-tonne

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Decarbonising Investment Portfolios on the Journey to Net Zero

3BL Media

Financed emissions are the share of operational emissions from the companies under an institution's investment/lending portfolio, with methodologies such as PCAF or JIM providing a system for measuring these emissions. Clearly much more needs to be done to pivot towards more sustainable investment and lending practices.

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UK Urged to Move Away from Single Materiality Mindset

Chris Hall

Investment industry bodies have underscored the need for double materiality in response to the UK government’s consultation on non-financial reporting. It also underlined the importance of “coherency” within the UK SDS and non-financial reporting requirements to ensure that investor data needs are met.

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Net zero transition – the latest signals of change: March 24, 2023

We Mean Business Coalition

At Ceres Global in New York City, 250+ investors and businesses launched a call for policymakers to protect the freedom to invest responsibly, following recent political attempts to frustrate sustainable investment practices. billion offshore wind farm in the North Sea, with a capacity of 960 MW. million households.

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AB: ESG in Action - The Human Touch in Interpreting Climate Scenario Analysis

3BL Media

Republic Services is on Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable Companies list and CDP Worldwide’s Climate A List. Despite doubling its power generation, the company has committed to reducing greenhouse gas by 40% from 2005 levels by 2025. For every ton of greenhouse gas Clean Harbors generates from operations, it avoids another two tons.

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More Relief than Regret as Montreal Fails to Make it Mandatory

Chris Hall

With firms only being “required” to disclose, “it will now be up to individual governments to implement policies that ensure this happens and we hope that this will be through enforcing mandatory disclosure on nature,” said Helen Finlay, Global Associate Director for Policy Engagement at environmental disclosure platform CDP. billion by 2025.