3BL Media

MAY 20, 2022

How can a coalition of organizations bent on improving outcomes, such as Google, Baker Hughes, and academic institutes help lay the groundwork for reliable reporting of emissions that enable better decision making, and which are comparable across the economic spectrum?

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 31, 2023

Despite growing sustainable investment opportunities across Africa, “business-as-usual” finance system reinforces funding gap. Climate finance channelled into Africa cannot be upscaled in line with a 1.5°C

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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

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

MARCH 10, 2023

Having led the world in laying out frameworks to channel sustainable investment, Europe is now preparing to borrow from the US playbook, not least to protect investment flows. But sustainable finance remains an evolving discipline both in academia and industry.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Against a backdrop of inflation, supply chain issues and a rising cost-of-living, UK leaders are steadfast in their environmental commitments as they view sustainability action as a means to offset economic uncertainty.

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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

MARCH 15, 2024

“Investment consultants have taken some things at face value, which in one sense is understandable – they’re not academics. Scientists and academics live in silos. But the analysis is dreadful and should never have been published in the first place – that is the real reason we’re in deep trouble now.”

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Chris Hall

MAY 5, 2023

Those arguing for a faster withdrawal from fossil fuel firms have found support from academics at Harvard Business School , and more investors explicitly taking a twin-track approach , engaging with policymakers while upping the stakes at AGMs. But apparently some pensioners are happy with the strategies of the oil majors.

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Divestment Net Zero Academics Sustainable Investment 52

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

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. . JP Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) has announced the launch of two new ETFs, expanding its active ETF line-up. billion hard cap.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Segal argues that Canada’s policymakers and regulatory bodies have failed to align the country’s financial sector with a “safe climate and stable economy”, leaving little incentive for companies, financial institutions and asset owners to pursue sustainable investment strategies.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 29, 2022

In areas of the economy where unionisation levels are low, our stakeholder research and engagement can include talking to academics and NGOs such as migrant workers’ rights organisations,” says Martin. This is despite double that number listing labour disruption as a principal risk to their business. “In

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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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Chris Hall

AUGUST 19, 2022

On the flip side, without urgent and sustained investment in these areas – charging infrastructure, battery production, and the responsible sourcing of materials – the growth of the sector has the potential to stall further down the line, thereby reducing its long-term profitability and the continued electrification of the transport industry.

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