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Take Five: The Deep Green Sea?

Chris Hall

The Beast – US President Joe Biden has been commended for reinstating the US into the Paris Agreement hours after taking office, while his Inflation Reduction Act – which will provide around US$386 billion in energy and climate spending over the next ten years – represents an important step in the transition to clean energy.

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Does Every Little Bit of ESG Integration Help?

Stanford Social Innovation

And can we really still call it “impact”? While the PRI and the industry have adopted the principle of ESG integration as a doctrine, academics have treated it as a hypothesis, looking for data to test it and determine if it holds true, particularly the link between ESG integration and financial performance.

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Filling Canada’s Policy Void

Chris Hall

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. But she continues: “All investments are impact investments.