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Sustainable Indigenous Finance and the Collaboration for Innovation

3BL Media

Led by US SIF Board Member and Founder of First Peoples Worldwide, Rebecca Adamson, the collaboration will establish an investors and Indigenous Peoples’ hub that combines investment acumen and academic rigor with a global Indigenous network for innovating Sustainable Indigenous Finance.

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Robeco Opens up Access to Sustainable Investing IP

ESG Today

International asset manager Robeco announced today a new program to open up access to its sustainable investing intellectual property with the launch of its Sustainable Investing Open Access Initiative. Granting clients and academics access to our SDG data and methodology is only the first step.”

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ESG isn’t a scam. Here’s why.

Corporate Knights

Tariq Fancy, former BlackRock chief investment officer for sustainable investing, in a recent TEDx talk called fossil fuel divestment a placebo, equating it to giving wheatgrass juice to a cancer patient. These comments also show that there is a massive skills gap in the sustainable investment industry.

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Why corporate reporting isn’t a proxy for progress

GreenBiz

Close to 90 percent of the S&P 500 now produce sustainability reports and a preponderance of academic research touts the link between ESG and equity returns. More than $25 trillion of global assets are invested "sustainably,” with projections for that number to double in just four years.

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Most Canadians want their investments to align with climate action

Corporate Knights

Yet many Canadian banks, pension funds, insurers and large companies still underinvest in clean energy and disproportionately invest in oil, gas and coal. Earlier this year, Canada was recognized as a “low-regulation jurisdiction” on sustainable finance by a UN sustainable investment group.

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Leading in a fundamentally changing world

GreenBiz

Financial flows are changing, with public and private funding gravitating towards net-zero, sustainable investments. I look forward to exploring this new leadership ethos and logic of enterprise together with the Leonardo Centre’s comprehensive network of academic scholars and business leaders. Pull Quote. Leadership.

Net Zero 373
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MSCI Launches New Sustainability Institute

ESG Today

According to MSCI, the new Sustainability Institute will spur collaboration across the ecosystem, including finance, academia, government, NGOs, think tanks and companies, in addition aligning data, analysis, policy and action.

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