Chris Hall

MARCH 12, 2025

The experience of funds over the next few months could shape the discussion about whether a more precise impact label needs to be included in the EUs revised rules. Funds data and analytics provider Morningstar Sustainalytics predicts that between 30% and 50% of in-scope funds will change name as a result of ESMAs new guidelines.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Business and financial markets information service provider Bloomberg announced today the launch of a new data mapping and materiality assessment tool, aimed at enabling investors to assess the potential impact of a company’s business on any of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and to support impact integration in portfolios.

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3BL Media

MAY 6, 2024

We’re working to increase access to data and information that helps investors and policymakers make informed decisions that both grow the economy and help catalyze investment in a clean energy future.” A selection of highlights from the 2023 Impact Report include: Environmental Impact Reducing emissions in line with a 1.5°C

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3BL Media

JUNE 27, 2024

There was an even spread of use-cases including focusing on using third-party ratings, scores or related research (20%), focusing on impact investing (19%), and focusing on building quantitative strategies that utilize ESG data alongside other financial considerations (18%).

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3BL Media

APRIL 30, 2024

We’re working to increase access to data and information that helps investors and policymakers make informed decisions that both grow the economy and help catalyze investment in a clean energy future.” A selection of highlights from the 2023 Impact Report include: Environmental Impact Reducing emissions in line with a 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 19, 2023

“The Impact Disclosure Taskforce wants to start by first identifying the actual needs and commitments of lenders and investors to ensure companies and sovereigns have more clarity,” Merle noted. “What information do they actually need from the data that is already being provided?

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Benchmark assessments are a cornerstone of Climate Action 100+ and are intended to help inform investors’ engagement strategies and wider public debate. The extent to which companies are contributing to and adequately preparing for the transition to a decarbonised economy is key for investment decision-making.

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Stanford Social Innovation

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The truth is, it’s very difficult to process and use the information. How can we start using all of the information we have to improve lives? This is the goal of a new field we call impact science. Why do we have so much evidence but can’t seem to deploy it to improve lives? What’s Holding Us Back?

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Chris Hall

MAY 9, 2023

Net Purpose, a data analytics platform for impact investors, is expanding its team and capabilities, while looking at new technologies to help align investments to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Net Purpose expands capabilities, views AI as essential to handle proliferation of sustainability data.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Investors that have already expressed interest in the initiative will receive more information in the coming months. We will contribute our analytical, quantitative approach to developing practical guidance for the investment community to help deliver a financial system that is fully aligned with a net-zero, nature-positive economy.

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Stanford Social Innovation

JUNE 24, 2024

If they wanted to direct investments based on the value created for all stakeholders as well as the financial return of an investment, they could. This combination of social and financial returns, or “ blended value ,” was adopted initially by actors in the venture philanthropy and impact investing spaces.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2022

Participants in the survey – conducted for ESG scoring analytics platform provider GaiaLens – were split equally across the two regions, overwhelmingly drawn from pension schemes. More than half held the position of chief investment officer (CIO), while around a quarter were heads of sustainability.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 10, 2022

Aquaculture offers investors “something rare: uncorrelated, persistent, green risk-adjusted returns”, says Grant Cavanaugh, CIO of Scoot Science , an ocean analytics and forecasting company focused on creating the first transparent, comprehensive, data-driven tools for measuring the impact and risk of ocean conditions on salmon farms globally.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 27, 2022

Led by Matt Christensen , Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing, the unit will combine existing equity and debt investing expertise with a newly created impact measurement and management capability. Impact investing is fast-growing out of its niche.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2022

The end-to-end solution provides portfolio level analytics with full transparency to underlying holdings’ ESG, impact, and UN SDG performance. The facility will enable users to compare quality and price side by side in the platform to make more informed decisions on which credits to purchase.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

He has also previously held roles at the Global Impact Investing Net work and the African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank initiative. We’re at a critical point in sustainable investing, where investors are deluged with information and seeking credible, transparent insights and tools,” said Kuh. “I

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Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2022

According to the consultation document, “The requirements for the Voluntary Carbon Market designation, and the enhanced disclosure proposed in this consultation, are designed to inform investors of specific information relating to a Fund’s carbon reduction and/or removal projects.”

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Chris Hall

MARCH 6, 2023

Cautious welcome for plans to develop an analytical framework for channelling finance to SDGs, amid calls for greater coordination between public and private sectors. You need forward looking planning, i.e. climate transition plans, so I guess you could say we have to learn the lessons of the TCFD process.”

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Chris Hall

JULY 21, 2023

Larger firms have the luxury of potentially buying carbon credits (which can have limited real-life benefits on improving environment impact), investing in technology and offering higher salaries to attract talent. If transition relief is used, a firm would need to disclose this.

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3BL Media

MARCH 30, 2022

In addition, they include new analytics from 2 Degrees Investing Initiative measuring the emissions intensities of steel, cement, and aviation companies against reference climate scenarios. C climate goal agreed in Paris and reaffirmed in Glasgow last year. For a deeper dive into the results, join our webinars next week.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The TPT will also expand its Sandbox to accelerate new capabilities that can support users including investors, banks, analytics providers, and preparers – typically financial institutions and firms – of transition plans. New members include drinks company Diageo, energy firm SSE and pension scheme operator Railpen. “We

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

A report in September by asset manager DWS and independent research boutique CREATE-Research found 22% of pension funds surveyed are implementing, or have already implemented, impact investing as part of their passive investment strategies. The main limiting factor is availability of data.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2023

“The areas we’ve laid out in phase two ensure we are focusing on actual emissions reductions, not just the targets,” says Maier, who is also Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investment at asset management firm GAM Investments, adding that transition plans are central to achieving net zero.

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Stanford Social Innovation

APRIL 28, 2022

How can funders of humanitarian solutions assess the potential for impact and track the performance of solutions across their portfolios? The system, while imperfect, helps inject objectivity to our analysis, compare projects, and bring more analytic rigor to the funding and portfolio management process.

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Stanford Social Innovation

MARCH 31, 2025

There are reasons why traditional impact investors look for solutions with universal appeal. The challenge with context-agnostic impact investing is that, in the end, the extent to which a particular innovation actually solves any tangible challenge will always, still, depend on how it integrates into the contexts in which it is used.

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