Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At COP26, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero ( GFANZ ) declared a sector-wide commitment of US$130 trillion – a number that has increased over the year to US$150 trillion – of private capital to transition the global economy to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. Demanding data.

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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 trillion by 2026, up from US$18.4

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3BL Media

MAY 20, 2022

As a result, genuine changes for the better may not be acknowledged and emulated, while changes for the worse, which are bound to happen, may be taken for granted or misunderstood. And the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment brought legal, economic, and investability filters to the group’s investigations.

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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.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including AXA IM Alts, PwC, Impax Asset Management, Barclays, Osborne Clarke, and WBCSD. . AXA IM Alts , a global investment management firm with over €190 billion in AUM, is building out its team to support its New Capital Strategy.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 1, 2022

These long-held principles of sustainability have filtered down to the world of investment. According to figures published by The Global Sustainable Investment Alliance in 2021, Japan’s total sustainably invested assets stood at US$42,874 billion in 2020, representing a more than fivefold increase from 2016.

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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. Finance is still an overlooked frontier for climate policy in Canada. But she adds: “That’s only for climate disclosures.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 24, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including JPMAM, Pictet AM, UK Investment Bank and LGT Capital Partners. . The two new ETFs are the JPMorgan Climate Change Solutions (T3MP) and JPMorgan UK Equity Core (JUKE) UCITS ETFs. billion hard cap.

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3BL Media

JULY 27, 2023

Basically, nature positive is biodiversity’s net zero with a critical difference: While net zero is a destination, nature positive is a journey. This year, for the first time, a company was excluded from an investment fund on the basis of biodiversity. No entity can ever claim to be “nature positive.”

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Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2023

However, as institutional investors, academics, NGOs, investor networks and data providers congregated in London last week for ESG Investor ’s inaugural Stewardship Summit , it became clear that many asset owners lack the resources necessary to fulfil their engagement ambitions.

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Jon Hale

JANUARY 28, 2022

End of Week Notes It’s not a “craze” and sustainable investors aren’t naive I suppose it’s a sign of success when The Wall Street Journal sees fit to launch a weeklong critique of sustainable investing. Instead, it’s turning toward stakeholder capitalism, which is supported and enabled by sustainable investing.

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