Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 30, 2019

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is supporting countries in the region to achieve these ambitious goals, along with some foreign governments like Germany. SDSN academics and member universities interacting at the country level are well positioned to support this process.

Paris Agreement

Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2023

The Church of England Pensions Board and Dutch asset owner PGGM had already declared their support for a Follow This resolution calling for the oil and gas major to align its Scope 3 emissions reduction target with the Paris Agreement. Perhaps ominously for asset managers, she added: “Asset owners sit at the top of the value chain.”

Paris Agreement

Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

Now they must wait to see how signatories to the Paris Agreement act on the commitments outlined in the official response to the Global Stocktake, as well as multiple other pledges announced across the two weeks before that final text was signed, sealed and gavelled. C has not lessened; if anything, it has increased,” he says.

Net Zero

Chris Hall

AUGUST 24, 2023

Carmen Nuzzo , Executive Director of the Transition Pathway Initiative Global Climate Transition Centre (TPI Centre), told ESG Investor that ASCOR will allow investors to track sovereigns’ efforts toward their net zero targets and the national determined contributions (NDCs) to which they’ve committed by signing the Paris Agreement in 2015.

Climate Change

Chris Hall

AUGUST 17, 2022

Professor Trevor Williams of Derby University and former Chief Economist at Lloyds Bank said: “One-off taxes on windfall profits should not damage the energy industry. Academic research published this week found that decarbonisation scenarios developed by oil majors are inconsistent with the objectives of the Paris Agreement.

Net Zero

Chris Hall

JULY 10, 2023

Just nature transition should be placed “at the heart” of UK agricultural, climate and nature policy engagement, academic report says. Transition to a sustainable UK agriculture sector is being undermined by a failure to factor the social impacts of addressing the climate and biodiversity crises, according to authors of a new report.

Net Zero

Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This March, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a sustainable business forum in Vancouver “things have changed” since the country signed up to the Paris Agreement on climate change. Examples include Bank of Canada and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.

Climate Change

Chris Hall

AUGUST 30, 2023

The UN experts could not be clearer: banks bear their own legal responsibility regarding the escalating and detrimental threat climate change poses to human rights.”

Climate Change

Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2023

It includes members from CCLA Investment Management, Credit Suisse and HSBC Bank Pensions Trust. In the coming weeks, the PRI will launch a benchmark study to assess the current levels of stewardship resourcing across industry, with McNamee calling for participation from asset owners to ensure this data is “robust”.

Stewardship Code

Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

But her proudest achievement is helping to create a “bridge between the academic and professional worlds.” THE GREEN BANKER Mitch McEwen 27, Montreal Senior manager, Enterprise Sustainable Finance TD Bank Group Mitch McEwen had always envisioned a career for himself in conventional finance.

Climate Change

Chris Hall

AUGUST 4, 2023

“Constructive dialogue” sought by UK asset owners with managers, including meetings and their involvement in an academic review. Hoepner told ESG Investor : “I think it is going to be super interesting because there’s loads of the biggest asset managers involved at the highest levels of stewardship.

Paris Agreement

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

This followed the release of updated long-term climate scenarios by the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), a group of central banks and financial markets supervisors. C above pre-industrial temperatures. The post Take Five: A Change in the Climate appeared first on ESG Investor.

Paris Agreement