B the Change

APRIL 16, 2023

Learn more about the growing movement of Certified B Corporations using business as a force for good, and sign up to receive the B The Change Weekly newsletter for more stories like this one, delivered straight to your inbox once a week. Circular Economy 3. Climate Change 4. asked a North American corporate professional.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Thanks to converging forces — including supportive policies, dropping battery costs and aggressive climate goals — transportation leaders at large and small organizations are increasingly turning to new zero-emission and low-carbon options that decarbonize fleets and in some cases save money. Mon, 10/26/2020 - 02:00. Media Source.

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B the Change

JULY 28, 2022

Businesses May Soon Face New SEC Requirements By Chelsea Hicks-Webster As the Earth warms and humans experience the negative impacts of climate change , investors and society are pressuring companies to react. to disclose: How they identify and respond to climate-related risks and opportunities. and accountable for?—?their

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The kick-off article to this series shared a startling statistic: Forty percent of the world’s population is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and most of the people in this group live in the countries least responsible for causing it. By Daniella Foster. Innovation.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

Sustainable investing strategies have ascended quickly in the last 10 years. The events of this year have been first and foremost a human tragedy, but they also have served as a catalyst to awakening interest and adoption of these strategies as reasonable approaches to remain resilient during these uncertain times. José Miguel Salazar.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 29, 2022

Passive vehicles can help investors reach climate targets, but are by no means perfect. . Institutional investors are increasingly attracted to climate-focused passive investment vehicles as a systematic and cost-effective way of transitioning their portfolios to net zero. . Its investment portfolio reached €57.6

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Just Capital

MARCH 11, 2022

For a feature this week, its CEO, Cyrus Taraporevala, and proxy voting guidelines lead, Benjamin Colton , sat down with JUST editorial director Rich Feloni for an in-depth discussion on everything from the coming proxy season, corporate “brown-spinning” and the war in Ukraine. Be well, Martin. This Week in Stakeholder Capitalism. JUST Events.

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Richard Matthews

MARCH 21, 2022

Many of these private investment funds are venture capitalist with startup and early stage investment strategies. These firms can be differentiated by Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Clean Energy Ventures is focused on affordable clean energy, cleantech, climate change, water, and sanitation. gigatons by 2050.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 1, 2024

While some Canadian pension funds “made helpful but modest tweaks” to their climate policies in 2023, even the leaders in the field lagged behind international peers in their efforts to build climate urgency into their investment choices and exclude fossil fuels from their portfolios, a watchdog group reports this morning.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2020

Last month, for example, the Wall Street Journal published a piece ("Sustainability Was Corporate America’s Buzzword. This Crisis Changes That") proclaiming that when it comes to corporate commitments and programs, "executives have called a timeout." Businesses that were planning to help save the world are now simply saving themselves.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. The pioneering governance structure will see the food giant officially entrench environmental, social and societal objectives into its bylaws, alongside more typical profit goals.

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Carlos Sanchez

APRIL 28, 2021

In this article you will learn about companies’ shift in purpose , what are and hot to improve ESG ratings and the future of ESG. There are two megatrends behind the rise of sustainable finance and ESG ratings; the shift in companies purpose and the rise of intangible assets. Purpose-driven companies.

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B the Change

APRIL 12, 2023

How to Reduce Your Company’s Climate Impact and Help Create a More Resilient Future In this post, we cross-examine seven ways to align your organization’s digital marketing strategy with an impactful climate strategy. However, some of these tactics can be at odds with proven climate strategies.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 6, 2023

There is mounting concern that some popular climate and nature metrics have oversimplified the underlying reality. Navigating the negative No one can predict the future, but it’s vital that investors have some idea of how an investee company’s performance is projected to change in the medium- to long-term.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 1, 2023

Sounds like a climate activist’s wish list. This is the Future 50, Corporate Knights’ second annual ranking of ambitious entrepreneurs who are trying to solve big problems in climate, energy, the environment, transportation, healthcare, waste disposal – even the Canadian diet. Case in point: the no.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Carbon sticks For many years, the primary climate policy recommended by many economists was carbon pricing. In 2012, economists concluded that Europe’s ETS programme had quite limited effects on the rate and direction of corporate clean-energy innovations. In response, the EU unveiled its own green industrial strategy.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

CRISIL – an ESG ratings provider which is part of S&P – attributes the recent momentum to fixed income funds playing catch up to their equity counterparts, noting also that regulations around product labelling, especially the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) “are acting as catalysts to the expansion”. That is not true.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Climate change is impacting everyone, but its ongoing effects threaten the lives and livelihoods of some people more than others. Acting on climate justice is important, because social inequities increase the severity of the risks and costs that vulnerable people face as a result of climate change.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Discussions on climate finance will continue in Sharm El Sheikh, but developed countries have since launched individual initiatives to support EMDEs. . One of the most notable was announced by US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry on COP27’s Finance Day. There is only one way we’re going to keep 1.5°C

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James Militzer

APRIL 8, 2024

And as the global economy (and the financial crises that have plagued it) have become more complex and interconnected, it’s becoming clear that traditional free market approaches to finance are incapable of meeting the world’s current and future needs. This paradigm shift is what the Impact Finance Barometer is all about.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Plenty of advice on tackling systemic risks was on offer to policymakers this week ahead of the UN SDG Summit and New York Climate Week. A separate paper by a group of scientists and economists called for five similarly transformative changes, predicting they could achieve the SDGs, by 2050, 20 years after their proposed deadline.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

SATURDAY 13 NOVEMBER – This statement is the We Mean Business Coalition response to the Glasgow Climate Pact, agreed at COP26. . The Glasgow Climate Pact represents a vital step in our shared efforts to keep global warming to 1.5 °C C temperature goal of the Paris Agreement alive, and to ensure a just transition. .

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Grateful appreciation to the World Business Council for Sustainable Business and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment for helping us spread the word. Our mission is to help people protect their families, protect their finances, be confident for the future — and a large part of that is reducing risk," Adams says.

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Sustainable Round Table

OCTOBER 19, 2022

South East and incremental $185 million dollar investment in its Ohio-based plants (refer to “The Climate Economy Is About To Explode” article and additional footnotes for further examples). communities of color that regularly bear the brunt of human-caused climate and environmental breakdown.

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