ESG Today

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Sacha Sadan, Director of Environmental, Social and Governance, FCA, said: “We’re putting in place a simple, easy to understand regime so investors can judge whether funds meet their investment needs – this is a crucial step for consumer protection as sustainable investment grows in popularity.”

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ESG Today

JANUARY 19, 2025

Billion Sustainable Investing Mandate from SJP Net Zero Investor Coalition Hits Pause After BlackRock Exit Exec Moves Mars Appoints Alastair Child as New Chief Sustainability Officer Barclays Head of Sustainability Steps Down Sodali Appoints Andrew Benett as New CEO

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 13, 2024

Sustainable Investment Forum, in a statement. vice-president and co-founder of sustainable asset firm Generation Investment Management. “But companies with business in Europe will be subject to the European rules when they go into effect between 2025 and 2029. The SEC estimates that 3,700 U.S.

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3BL Media

MAY 6, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Fifth Third Bank is releasing an in-depth and informative white paper called The Case for ESG and Responsible, Sustainable Investing. Published this week , the white paper demonstrates the Bank’s thought leadership for institutional and retail investors, providing insights and best practices on ESG investing.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 31, 2023

According to a statement released by Vargas and Casten, the new caucus is being launched as ESG investing is expected to continue to grow rapidly in the U.S. Vargas to bring together Members of Congress and experts to progress past the distortion of facts and have robust, open-minded discussions about sustainable investing.”

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (OTPP), one of Canada’s largest investors, with over $240 billion in assets under management, announced today the appointment of Anna Murray as Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Sustainable Investing.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Gertler said U of T will divest from all direct investments in fossil fuel firms within 12 months, and divest from pooled investments by 2030. The university will allocate 10% of its $4-billion endowment to sustainable investments by 2025 (the “invest” side of DivestInvest).

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ESG Today

JANUARY 15, 2024

Investment management firm Fidelity International announced today a new focused sustainable investment approach, targeting four systemic themes, including nature loss, climate change, strong and effective governance, and social disparities, which will drive the firm’s engagement approach towards influencing positive change.

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ESG Today

APRIL 30, 2025

While the initial SDR was developed primarily for retail investors, the new proposal would extend the requirements to firms that manage a group of investments for consumers, with a focus on wealth management services for individuals and model portfolios for retail investors.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 20, 2023

Of the 6,720 companies the Corporate Knights team analyzed for our 2023 Global 100 ranking of the world’s most sustainable corporations, a select few stand out. Here are a handful leading the pack on six key indicators. It pumped €8.6 million kroner in 2022 from 9.03

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ESG Today

JUNE 5, 2025

Nearly nine out of ten institutional investors globally report that they are not changing their commitments to sustainable investing, despite geopolitical pressures, although many are being quieter about it, according to a new survey by financial group BNP Paribas.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 9, 2025

The FCAs SDR requirements were introduced by the regulator in November 2023 , aimed at helping investors assess the sustainability attributes of investment products, and to avoid greenwashing risk, to portfolio managers.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 7, 2025

Ghislaine Nadaud, Senior Sustainability Investing Specialist at Robeco said: In our engagement with transition sectors, we will be not only focusing on downstream or upstream activities.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

February 25, 2025 /3BL/ - Impact Laboratories, verifier of the worlds most trusted green lab certification, has secured $4.95 These investors bring not only capital but also deep expertise in scientific research, sustainable investment, and media outreach to accelerate Impact Laboratories mission. SPOKANE, Wash.,

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ESG Today

JANUARY 28, 2025

The FCAs SDR requirements were introduced by the regulator in November 2023 , aimed at helping investors assess the sustainability attributes of investment products, and to avoid greenwashing risk, to portfolio managers. billion sustainable investment mandate by UK wealth manager St.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The rules include a series of criteria for products to use the labels, including a requirement for at least 70% of the products assets to ordinarily be invested in line with the label’s objective, as well as ongoing product-level disclosures for products using a label.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 23, 2021

Water is one of the nine themes that make up the sustainable investment philosophy at Essex. However, William Page, portfolio manager at Essex Investment Management Company, pointed out the other eight themes are all closely connected to water as well. . Essex: Water is an expression of climate change at a local level.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

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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Corporate Knights

MARCH 22, 2023

The amount of these pension funds’ actual investments labelled as “sustainable” rose to $276 billion in 2021, up from just $163 billion a year earlier. The dashboard shows that sustainable investments composed nearly 13% of the pension funds’ total assets of $2.2 trillion, versus just 7% of $2.1

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

This week in ESG news: Australia passes mandatory climate reporting law; Google signs carbon removal deal at landmark $100/ton price; Bain survey finds CEOs losing focus on sustainability as it becomes more important to consumers and corporate buyers; SEC fines Keurig over coffee pod recycling claims; Oracle launches sustainability data and reporting (..)

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Reports released on COP29 ’s Finance Day by the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance (GSIA) and Taskforce on Net Zero Policy have highlighted the significant obstacles that continued policy gaps pose for investors and companies. C temperature pathway.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 11, 2022

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. dollars) through 2030. Whereas just 2.7%

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 3, 2025

Drastic changes to the scope of sustainability reporting rules will limit investor access to comparable and reliable sustainability data, said Aleksandra Palinska, executive director at the European Sustainable Investment Forum, Europes umbrella network for sustainable finance, in a press release.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 8, 2025

As it stands, without those requirements in place, financial advisers have little incentive to offer sustainable investment options and strategies to their clients. For advisers who want to broach sustainable investing with clients, Saghir suggests starting by asking about philanthropy and the charities they support.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Jenn-Hui Tan, Chief Sustainability Officer, Fidelity International said: “The loss of natural capital is a systematic risk to capital markets, and as such, prioritising and contributing to the health and preservation of our biodiversity and ecosystems is essential. ”

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 7, 2022

The BCGEU resolution, which will be heard at Brookfield’s annual meeting June 10, calls on the massive conglomerate to require two of its affiliated companies with large private equity holdings to set and disclose CO2-emission reduction targets for 2025.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The transaction follows the announcement earlier this year of BNPP AM’s 2025 strategic ambitions, which focus primarily on extending its sustainable investing capabilities and offerings, with the goal to become “the sustainable asset manager of reference in Europe.”

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ESG Today

JULY 22, 2022

Last year, Iberdola announced plans for its financing structure to have an increasingly higher percentage of green and sustainable products, estimated to account for nearly two-thirds of its debt by 2025. Iberdrola has also been actively scaling its clean energy capacity.

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Chris Hall

MAY 18, 2022

Asset owners need to demonstrate more flexibility and innovation in their approach to sustainable investing, according to leading asset owners speaking at the Alpha Summit event hosted by the CFA Institute this week. . The fifth edition of the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance’s biennial review highlighted that US$35.2

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3BL Media

JUNE 22, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Sets interim targets of 1 GW solar by 2025 and net zero for operations by 2030. These include: 1 GW of solar generation capacity (supported by storage) by 2025. Carbon neutral construction by 2025. SOURCE: Prologis. Builds on company’s leadership in green building, solar and more. Publishes 2021-22 ESG Report.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 6, 2023

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including Carmignac , NBIM, Chronos Sustainability, RBC BlueBay, the IA and EQ Investors. French asset manager Carmignac has appointed Lloyd McAllister as Head of Sustainable Investment.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Natron's cutting-edge sodium-ion batteries presented an ideal opportunity to both potentially expand our sustainability investment portfolio to our ground operations, and to help make our airport operations more resilient. Learn more about their sustainability investments here: [link].

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ESG Today

JULY 12, 2022

BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) unveiled its 2025 strategic ambitions today, focused primarily on extending its sustainable investing capabilities and offerings, with the goal to become “the sustainable asset manager of reference in Europe.”.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 22, 2024

Additional priorities under the Roadmap included establishing a sustainable finance taxonomy, and instituting a labeling regime for sustainable investments. Reporting requirements for the first wave of companies would begin from the start of 2025.

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Environmental Finance

MARCH 4, 2025

The well-attended event in London highlighted that natural capital remains the 'hot topic' of sustainable investing but more infrastructure building is needed. Genevieve Redgrave reports

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ESG Today

JUNE 10, 2024

ESMA also removed a proposed 50% threshold for the use of “sustainable” or any sustainability-related term, following feedback from investor groups, but added instead a requirement for such funds “to invest meaningfully in sustainable investments.” But up until now, there were no minimum standards.

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Stanford Social Innovation

MARCH 24, 2025

This integration will be showcased at our 2025 USA Expo in Kansas City, where Resolutions social venture challenge model will be incorporated into Enactuss competition structure, creating a more comprehensive support system for young social entrepreneurs.

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