ESG Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Goldman Sachs Asset Management announced today the launch of the Goldman Sachs Global Green Bond UCITS ETF, a new Article 9 fund tracking a bespoke index developed with Solactive, tracking the performance of investment-grade bonds denominated in G10 currencies.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

Sustainable investing is changing global supply chains: 4 key takeaways. Sustainable investing strategies have ascended quickly in the last 10 years. Morgan Global Equity Research estimated that the sustainable investing market is expected to reach $45 trillion in assets under management (AUM) by the end of the year.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The new fund aims invest in four key areas of technology supporting the achievement of net zero by 2050, including energy transition, decarbonizing industries, sustainable food & agriculture and sustainable transportation. LCIF is classified as an Article 9 Fund under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 11, 2022

This year, Corporate Knights set out to identify global companies that have decarbonized faster than their peers while simultaneously increasing revenue. In terms of sustainable capital expenditures, as a whole the 20 companies projected total sustainable investments of $528 billion (all figures in U.S. Read article.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 2, 2022

According to the firm, the fund is being launched as investors are looking to help address biodiversity and nature loss through long-term protection and restoration of sensitive habitats, with sustainable investing practices and nature-positive outcomes aimed at meeting client needs to go beyond net neutral strategies.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The indices provide a 50% reduction in carbon intensity versus an equivalent non-ESG market benchmark and a 7% year-on-year ongoing decarbonization pathway. Simon Klein, Global Head of Passive Sales at DWS, said: “We see impact investing as one of the major future tasks for asset managers.

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We Mean Business Coalition

MAY 19, 2023

This article was originally published in Newsweek Opinion A fierce debate is currently distracting businesses from their collective responsibility to decarbonize. We simply must invest in keeping forests standing. To achieve this requires urgent, large-scale, and sustained investment.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This article was first published in Business Green. The G20 said they “underline the urgency to rapidly transform and diversify energy systems, advance energy security and resilience and markets stability, by accelerating and ensuring clean, sustainable, just, affordable, and inclusive energy transitions and flow of sustainable investments.”

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Chris Hall

JULY 8, 2022

Supporting resilience and just transition are as important as climate mitigation, says Lihuan Zhou, Associate at the World Resources Institute’s Sustainable Finance Center. Sustainable investing is a key part of curbing climate change, and the sector is showing some signs of progress.

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

A large and growing share of that investment capitol is going towards impact investments. In an interview with Private Equity International (PEI), Tania Carnegie, the Global Private Equity and Asset Management Leader for KPMG Impact, said she is confident about the future of impact investing.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

This transition will require a far sharper focus on short-term, sector-specific benchmarks tied to decarbonization pathways — starting with the high-impact industries that matter most for solving the climate crisis. . Support regulations and policies required to decarbonize. Finance & Investing. Sponsored Article.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) from 2021 aims to improve transparency about ESG features of investment portfolios by having firms classify them as Article 8 or Article 9 products. Article 9 portfolios should have “an objective of sustainable investments,” according to SFDR.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In South America , we co-organized a regional virtual dialogue of Finance Ministers, economists, and energy experts entitled " Towards Decarbonization of the South American Economies ” and also published Decarbonization Pathways for Paraguay's Energy Sector.

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Chris Hall

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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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

This week in ESG news: Microsoft announces one of the largest-ever carbon removal deals; Amazon signs deal for low-carbon shipping; Bloomberg survey finds nearly all execs plan significant increase in ESG data investment; Nearly $2 billion raised for green steel buildout; Allianz to invest over $20 billion in cleantech, climate solutions; GRI aligns (..)

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 1, 2024

CPPIB Lags the Field, Earns Praise from Oil and Gas The report acknowledges that some Canadian pension funds have published ambitious climate strategies, emission reduction targets, and decarbonization plans. This article first appeared in The Energy Mix. Read the original story here.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 22, 2022

There are challenges being mounted to investment managers openly embracing ESG / sustainability investment principles. The battle lines are clearly drawn now, with proponents of sustainable investment on one side and powerful forces lined up on the other side taking action and warning against “the dangers of ESG.”.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2023

Most of this new capacity will be directed toward decarbonizing industrial emitters such as cement and petrochemicals, and the power sector. Julia Attwood, head of sustainable materials. Sustainable Investing – Greater Scrutiny. The 10 Big Things To Watch Across World’s Energy Markets in 2023. Wed, 01/11/2023 - 14:05.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 31, 2023

High interest rates de-incentivize investments in renewables, lock our economies more deeply into fossil-fuel dependence, slow down decarbonization and put us more strongly on the road to hothouse Earth,” they wrote in a commentary in The Guardian in May. and many Republican lawmakers are publicly attacking ESG investing.

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