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Bridging Asia’s ESG Information Gap

Chris Hall

Last year, management consultant Opimas said, more than US$720 million was spent on ESG research and analytics, and more than US$300 million on indexes. . Different asset managers and banks require different types of data or different granularities of the data, and this creates a reporting, collation and operational burden on companies. .

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How climate risk disclosure became a battleground for the clean economy

Corporate Knights

Opponents see it as red tape and a constraint on competitiveness, while many climate campaigners say its the bare minimum. The work of the TCFD paved the way, in 2021, for the launch of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), an international cohort of banks committed to transitioning their financed emissions.

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The war of words over climate change

Corporate Knights

Thats Sergio Velasquez-Rose, head of strategy, insights and analytics at the Potential Energy Coalition, a non-profit, non-partisan alliance of marketing agencies trying to shift the conversation on climate change. Slow-walking on climate action is really the new climate denialism, he says.