ESG Today

JULY 24, 2022

This week in ESG news: Vanguard launches its first impact fund; Biden considers declaration of climate change emergency; Deutsche Bank appoints its first Chief Sustainability Officer; UK government given 8 months by high court to come up with a climate plan; BlackRock acquires waste-to-renewable gas company for $700 million; PepsiCo issues $1.25

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ESG Today

JULY 17, 2022

Persefoni Launching Financed and Portfolio Emissions Analytics Suite for Banks, Investors. EcoVadis Acquires Sustainable Supply Chain Data Mining Provider ecotrek. WTW Acquires Fintech Butterwire to Boost Climate Analytics Capabilities. ESG Investing. ESG Services and Tools. Reports, Studies & Surveys.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Green Equity Designations 1 Nasdaq launched Green Equity Designations on the Nordic markets in 2021 in response to increased demand for sustainable investments and extensive growth in Nasdaq Sustainable Bond Markets. The platform also provides issuer-level information on UN Sustainable Development Goals allocation.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 13, 2023

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including NatureAlpha, Verdantix, Solactive, Minerva Analytics, Euronext, Joulea, and Clarity AI. German index provider Solactive has acquired ESG research, stewardship support and proxy voting agency Minerva Analytics.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including AXA Investment Managers, HSBC Bank Pension Trust, BeyondNetZero, Xpansiv, and GRI. AXA Investment Managers has made three appointments in its corporate governance and stewardship team.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including SDI AOP, UBS, Climeworks, AXA, Moody’s RMS, Fathom, Reask, Carbon Direct, Genpact and Climate Vault. . Swiss bank UBS has signed a ten-year agreement with Climeworks ,?a

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 21, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including Franklin Templeton, Ninety One, Robeco, Mirova, Adam Street Partners, ThomasLloyd and NGFS. We are confident that Anne’s expertise will take our efforts on sustainable investing to the next level.”

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including AustralianSuper, Morningstar, Tikehau Capital, Oak Hill Advisors and Guinness Global Investors. . He has also previously held roles at the Global Impact Investing Net work and the African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank initiative.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Verisk Maplecroft, Fair Cost Index, Scope Ratings, LPA, Globalance, GoldenSource, FactSet, ClimateWorks and Higg.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 20, 2023

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including WWF, UNEP, S&P Global Sustainable1, ISS ESG, and CHOOOSE. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has launched a Biodiversity Risk Filter, which looks to aid companies in tackling nature-related risks.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Headcount growth was focused on individuals with key skill sets including: banking, ESG investing, in-house corporate ESG, ESG rating agencies and ESG standard setters. In 2022, IR Intelligence produced research on sustainable investing trends, as well as proprietary research on corporate climate disclosure trends.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

The resources included deep-dive guidelines for seven sectors – including asset owners, asset managers and banks; high-level guidance for 30 sectors of the global economy; and advice on how to undertake a transition planning cycle.

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Chris Hall

JULY 1, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including PwC, MSCI, Fenergo, Sentifi, and CME Group. . Sentifi , a Zurich-based alternative data provider, has announced a partnership with credit and sustainability risk agency Scope.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including MSCI, Bloomberg, RepRisk, Pathzero and IETA. . Zurich-based ESG data science company RepRisk has launched a new biodiversity risk tool, RepRisk Geospatial Analytics.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 12, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including FTSE Russell, GRESB, GI Hub, MAS, Google Cloud, Apex, Clarity AI, Blackrock eFront and Normative. . And a significant portion of the SFDR reporting burden has been eliminated.” .

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including AXA Investment Managers, BNP Paribas Real Estate UK, Climate Solutions, Willis Towers Watson, Actis, and Persefoni. Based in London, he will lead the company’s climate analytics and exposure management activities.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 20, 2023

“The three papers recognized this year study three very different topics, but each represents an exemplary effort to deepen our understanding of sustainable investment,” says Lloyd Kurtz , founder of the Moskowitz Prize and again one of the judges this year. First presented in 1996 by the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including CPP Investments, CCLA, Vontobel, LeapFrog, Low Carbon, and Brown Advisory. . Richard Manley is the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s (CPP Investments) new Chief Sustainability Officer.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Climate TRACE, MSCI, EcoAct, Deloitte, Persefoni and Deepki. . Data, analytics and research services provider MSCI has expanded its Implied Temperature Rise (ITR) metrics to include funds and indexes.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 24, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including the ISSB, Hymans Robertson, 2DII, ACA Group, Edison, UKSIF and Util. . D’Ath has nearly 30 years of experience in investments and international equity markets, working as Barclays Wealth, ING and ICAP.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Impact Cubed, NatureAlpha, Sylvera, Carbon Trust, Themis, Manifest Climate and AirCarbon Exchange. The training tool has been accredited by the London Institute of Banking and Finance.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has published its final recommendations for nature-related risk management and disclosure, serving as a tool to “operationalise” the achievement of Target 15 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). According to Tony Goldner, Executive Director of TNFD, the recommendations (..)

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including the Green Finance Institute, FTSE Russell, Glass Lewis, GRESB, NatureMetrics and more. Amsterdam-based ESG data provider GRESB has acquired asset-based climate data and analytics provider Asset Resolution.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Carbon Tracker, Sustainable Fitch, Apex Group, ACA Group, Euroclear, and ISS ESG. . Equally, it will enable banks and investors to more accurately assess the risk of particular assets becoming stranded.”.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Northern Trust, EDS, Nature4Climate, Capital for Climate, Qontigo, Verra, Pachama, Mubadala Investment Company, ACX and ACA Group. .

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Chris Hall

JULY 15, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Morningstar Indexes, Carnite, Persefoni, Blackstone, Tata and GaiaLens. . AI-driven ESG analytics platform GaiaLens has announced the launch of a new user interface to tackle common ESG data complaints.

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MAY 27, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Broadridge, ESG Book, Ada Fintech, Redington, Greyparrot.ai, and Viridios.ai. .

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2023

Dana Sasarean, Associate Director of Mining Research at ESG research, ratings and analytics firm Sustainalytics, is concerned about transparency. “Even if we get to the point where we figure out how to do DSM safely and sustainably, how do investors then verify that the mining process is happening in line with these expectations?

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Chris Hall

JUNE 10, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including 2DII, RMI, Nasdaq, Clarity AI, ISSB, Integrum and Accenture. . The game is intended to be a capacity building tool for financial institutions, supervisors and central banks.

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MARCH 18, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including GRI, Sustainalytics, ISS ESG, CDP, Diginex, Esgaia and Normative. . ESG and corporate governance research, ratings and analytics firm Sustainalytics ? GRI 12 will come into effect for reporting from January 2024. .

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MARCH 15, 2023

In February, UK-based Brunel Pension Partnership announced it is embarking on a pilot with S&P Trucost to develop a “biodiversity footprint” to enhance the asset owner’s analytics and disclosures across these themes.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 1, 2023

When it comes to making sustainable investments, the future is uncertain, the tools are imperfect, and disclosures are far from complete. The analytics team can backtest those scenarios to analyse how the market has responded. What range of realistic outcomes should we provide? It’s an open question right now.”

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Earlier this month, Senate Banking Committee Republicans published a report which criticised the ‘big three’ asset managers – BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard – noting that ESG and diversity are “political movements unmoored from financial performance”.  .

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

“Finding investible projects can be a challenge. There is sometimes a lack of projects with the scale and risk/return profile to attract institutional investment,” said Laura Kaliszewski, Global Head of Client Sustainable Investment Solutions, at Natixis Investment Management.

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JUNE 21, 2023

In 2022, investment per person in the LICs averaged a meager $175 USD per person, compared with $11,535 USD per person in the HICs (Moody's and World Bank, 2023).

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

This explainer considers whether new rules will help investors to better understand what is behind ESG ratings and use them effectively to implement sustainable investment strategies. In the future , says former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, climate and ESG considerations will “likely be at the heart of mainstream investing”.

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MARCH 8, 2023

in 2022 from 22.6% in 2021. In 2019, just 15% of the US$16.9 billion in climate-related venture capital funding went to start-ups with at least one female founder, BCG said.

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