Chris Hall

JANUARY 5, 2024

This avoids the dangers of different market participants inventing their own labels linked to disclosure requirements in Articles 8 and 9 of the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). SDR investment labels are real estate user-friendly. SDR runs with four investment labels: each subject to a 70% minimum threshold.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

Indeed, sustainable finance veteran Paul Watchman (an advisor to UNEP FI) argues "the concept of fiduciary duty is organic, not static. It will continue to evolve as society changes, not least in response to the urgent need for us to move towards an environmentally, economically and socially sustainable financial system."

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APRIL 16, 2023

Social sustainability requires considering their needs. There’s a need for examples of organizations with “successful social justice strategies and processes,” wrote a North American academic. Get Started: What Is Social Sustainability provides an overall framework for action. Sustainable Finance 10.

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3BL Media

JULY 13, 2023

“If there was not forest certification, a lot of land would be managed without that push to reach higher sustainability standards,” says Richard, who has been an auditor for 22 years. What is a sustainable forestry certification? You can learn more about the staff ride in this article by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group.

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James Militzer

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We’ll explore some potential ways DFIs can move toward this standardisation in this article — the second in a two-part series exploring the value and uses of DFI TA — discussing the benefits that greater standardisation would bring to both DFIs and the organisations they support.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The fund, which is labelled as Article 9 under the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), will have no fixed allocations across geographies, sub-subsectors or company stages, targeting wholesale and institutional investors with a “particular focus on high-net-worth individuals, family offices and private banks”.

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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.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Under the proposals , part of the watchdog’s consultation on Sustainability Disclosure Requirements , there will be three categories of labels for sustainable investment products. I imagine such firms will either push themselves further in order to qualify for one the categories or will back off.”.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Yet, there is growing evidence that funds labeled as ‘sustainable’ do not always deliver what they promise. This article was co-authored by Raphaele Deau, Environment and Social Lead, Climate Finance Unit, UN Environment Programme (UNEP). The post Are we Eating up Our World? appeared first on ESG Investor.

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B the Change

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Dolphin Blue has been a leader in environmental and social sustainability for nearly 30 years and supports initiatives that foster education and awareness in issues of sustainability, energy alternatives, organic agriculture, reducing waste, and using less stuff. This article was originally published at usca.bcorporation.net.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 31, 2022

Further, SFDR’s provisions have been quickly embedded in market practice, with ‘sustainable’ funds and strategies launched or rebadged in line with its Article 8 and 9 classifications , some even switching between the two, reflecting internal tussles between compliance and marketing departments. A ‘point-in-time’ assessment.

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B the Change

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In this article, we examine the myths of migration and identify the realities. Initiatives such as KnowTheChain , NGOs such as Verité and IHRB , and social sustainability consultancies such as ELEVATE offer guidance. (As Embrace the Potential of Migrants For the authors of this article, these issues are personal.

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James Militzer

JULY 20, 2022

In this article, we will talk about the results, what they mean for the sector, and how we see outcomes-based financing evolving to enable funders, investors, implementers and governments to make greater progress in reaching Sustainable Development Goal 1 of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The elephant in the room which sits outside of this article’s scope is the regulatory position which will impact on SLL. The post The Evolution of Mid-market Sustainability-linked Loans appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 11, 2021

This article was initially published on Apolitical. Considering their size and importance in the global economy, G20 countries should intensify policy efforts and actions for a Covid-19 recovery built around the SDGs.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 20, 2022

This follows SFDR Level 1, which came into effect over a year ago, and has required asset managers to sort their investment products into three categories: Article 6 (not sustainable), Article 8 (sustainable characteristics) and Article 9 (sustainable objectives). . Meeting new targets .

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3BL Media

AUGUST 17, 2023

Moreover, technology must be anchored in society to be socially sustainable, meaning that the use of resources is well motivated and explained. 6G for sustainability 6G networks should contribute to an overall sustainable development in society by enabling the transformation of other sectors than just ICT.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 9, 2023

Strategy looks to invest in issuers “actively” shifting towards renewables, environmentally sustainable practices. It will be available both as a SICAV – the JPMorgan Funds – Green Social Sustainable Bond Fund (SICAV), and as an ETF, the JPMorgan ETFs (Ireland) ICAV – Green Social Sustainable Bond UCITS ETF.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 30, 2022

The environmental taxonomy must implement minimum safeguards to ensure the EU isn’t “closing its eyes to the social impacts of greening its economies”, according to Signe Andreasen Lysgaard, Strategic Advisor on Business and Human Rights at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. . of the Taxonomy Regulation,” the report said.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Originally published and reshared from Lucion Group's article here. Here I agree with the article, in that what we need now, more than ever, is leadership. ESG and sustainability teams need to be protected in the face of adversity, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. ESG: A Simpler Time. A Call For Leadership.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 31, 2023

Green, social and sustainable (GSS) bonds endured a difficult 2022, with the fixed income instruments declining in value and issuance volume for the first year on record. billion last year – forecasting a stronger performance in 2023. Of that total, sustainability bonds contributed US$166.4 billion, social bonds added US$130.2

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B the Change

JUNE 21, 2022

I recently spoke with Viraj Puri, CEO of Gotham Greens, about the company’s expansion to California and B Corp Certification, for which the company had to demonstrate environmental and social sustainability. Growing produce indoors certainly has an increasing role to play in the future of sustainable food production.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Benchmarked against the iBoxx Global Green, Social, Sustainability index, it will be assessed at the issuer level for both ESG-labelled debt, including sustainable bonds, and non-labelled debt. The GIB will generate a positive societal impact by investing in a global set of impact-oriented fixed income instruments.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Resch sees her common career thread as what she calls "social sustainability.". Her United Nations path started in 2015 when she supported the Sustainable Development Goals at the Executive Office of the U.N. Corporate Social Responsibility. Sustainability. Sponsored Article. Secretary-General. At the U.N.

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EJOLT

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

This article was first published at The Ecologist. With resources becoming scarcer and both atmosphere, land and oceans getting ever fuller with waste, the question is if the degrowth narrative of a sufficiency economy catches on sufficiently, before it’s too late.

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