ESG Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

proxy voting recommendations; capital raises for battery tech, e-fuels, energy storage, carbon removal; Microsoft sources solar energy in Texas, Illinois; IBM, Ramboll partner on sustainability strategy & reporting solutions, and more. Board Directors Prefer Executives Stay Quiet on Social Issues: Report

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3BL Media

APRIL 13, 2025

The report also reflects CDLs pioneering sustainability leadership since 1995, as well as its progress toward Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals and targets under the CDL Future Value 2030 Sustainability Blueprint. It achieved a 38% reduction in Scope 3 embodied carbon in new developments compared with a 2016 baseline.

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ESG Today

MARCH 4, 2025

International banking group Standard Charteredannounced the release of its inaugural Transition Plan, outlining its detailed plan to achieve its climate goals, including its target to reach net zero emissions across its financing activities by 2050.

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ESG Today

MAY 5, 2025

In November 2024, the firm announced the departure of Group Chief Sustainability Officer Celine Herweijer, after the restructuring resulted in the CSO no longer being included on the banks Group Executive Committee. Leonards departure comes as HSBC undergoes a restructuring under new CEO George Elhedery.

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ESG Today

JULY 14, 2025

HSBC announced that it has decided to withdraw from the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), following its North American peers to become the first major UK bank to exit the UN-backed coalition dedicated to advancing global net zero goals through their financing activities.

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ESG Today

APRIL 20, 2025

.’ first sustainability-focused stock exchange; Microsoft signs record-breaking permanent carbon removal deals; Net-Zero Banking Alliance drops 1.5C First Sustainability-Focused Stock Exchange JPMorgan AM Raises $1.5 commitment; U.S. Means for Businesses Microsoft Signs Deal to Remove 3.7

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ESG Today

JANUARY 12, 2025

banks from net zero coalition; Net Zero finance umbrella group shifts focus after banks leave; process launched to expand, simplify EU Taxonomy; SBTi appoints new CEO; Biden bans offshore drilling across major portion of U.S. This week in ESG news: JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley complete exit of major U.S.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 1, 2023

“Taking planetary boundaries into account means that meeting the four key human demands —energy, food, manufacturing, and mobility—will require fundamental system changes,” said Jörg Eigendorf, Chief Sustainability Officer, Deutsche Bank, in an interview with SAPVoice on Forbes.com.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Private banking and asset management company Edmond de Rothschild announced today the appointment of Nathalie Wallace as Chief Sustainability Officer. Cynthia Tobiano, Deputy CEO of Edmond de Rothschild, said: “We are delighted to welcome Nathalie to Edmond de Rothschild.

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3BL Media

JUNE 15, 2022

DESCRIPTION: Fifth Third Bank’s Chief Sustainability Officer Mike Faillo will be presenting at Bank Director’s Bank Audit & Risk Committees Conference this week in Chicago. Faillo will appear as part of a panel discussion on June 15 titled, “How Banks Are Stepping Up Their ESG Plans.”.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 25, 2024

HSBC announced today the launch of its first Net Zero Transition Plan, outlining the global bank’s strategy to finance and support the transition to net zero, and to meet the climate goals it has set over the past few years. Click here to access the HSBC Net Zero Transition Plan.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Deutsche Bank announced the publication of its initial Transition Plan, outlining the bank’s methodologies, targets and achievements on its path to net-zero by 2050, across its own operations and supply chain, as well as financed emissions. This will allow us to continuously refine our own Transition Plan.”

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ESG Today

JUNE 28, 2023

Standard Chartered announced today the appointment of former Credit Suisse Global Head of Sustainable Finance Dana Barsky as Global Head of Sustainability Strategy and Net Zero. Barsky will be based in Singapore, and report to Group Chief Sustainability Officer Marisa Drew.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 5, 2022

International bank and financial services company Standard Chartered announced today that it has appointed Kerry Constabile to lead the company’s net zero and sustainability strategy teams. Constabile joins from Google, where she led the company’s sustainability strategy and company-wide climate plans.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Perspectives From Bonds to Boards Athen Bozoglu, Head of Portfolio Marketing, Nasdaq | Sarah Williamson, Chief Executive Officer, FCLTGlobal | Carol W.

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ESG Today

MARCH 2, 2023

Highlighting significant sustainability-related growth opportunities, Deutsche Bank unveiled an estimate today that its revenues from ESG business will grow to approximately €1.4 Jörg Eigendorf, Chief Sustainability Officer of Deutsche Bank, said: “For us, sustainability is both a matter of responsibility and opportunity.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Deutsche Bank unveiled a series of targets to reduce its financed emissions in several carbon-intensive sectors, including Oil & Gas, Power Generation, Automotive, and Steel. According to Deutsche Bank, the new targets for the four sectors account for a significant proportion of the bank’s €250 billion loan book.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the central bank and financial regulator of Singapore, announced today the appointment of Gillian Tan as its new Chief Sustainability Officer. Tan will take on the role from current Chief Sustainability Officer Dr Darian McBain, who will leave MAS in December.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Credit Suisse announced today the publication of its Climate Action Plan for its investment businesses, outlining the strategies and actions to be taken by Credit Suisse Asset Management and Credit Suisse Wealth Management to achieve net zero across their portfolios by 2050. The time to act is now.”

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Wu joins the firm after 15 years at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, where he most recently served as Head of Asia Pacific, working with governments, finance, energy and technology companies on business strategies for a net zero world. HSBC set a target in 2020 to align its financed emissions to net zero by 2050.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The number of companies proclaiming their intent to go net-zero by 2050 has expanded exponentially in the past 12 months, but the ones short-cutting that commitment by a decade are a rarer breed. I've got history in sustainability, but I'm a business guy. Photo courtesy of PepsiCo. We will go another five years through 2026.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 28, 2024

Perspectives From Bonds to Boards Randall Hopkins , Head of ESG Solutions, Nasdaq (moderator) Sarah Williamson , Chief Executive Officer, FCLTGlobal Craig M Hurlbert , Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Local Bounti Corporation Carol W.

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ESG Today

JULY 31, 2022

Unilever Launches Sustainable Laundry Capsule with Reduced Carbon, Plastic Footprint. Sobeys Parent Empire Commits to Net Zero Goals. AllianceBernstein Commits to Net Zero Investments and Operations. Nestlé Opens $340 Million Green Electricity-Powered, Zero Wastewater Coffee Factory in Mexico. Exec Moves.

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ESG Today

MAY 9, 2024

International banking group Standard Chartered announced today a new commitment to set a science-based target by 2025 to reduce financed methane emissions from the oil and gas sector. metric tons of CO2e.

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ESG Today

APRIL 28, 2023

International banking group Standard Chartered announced today an update to one of its key value chain emissions reduction goals, replacing its prior intensity-based oil and gas sector financed emissions reduction target with a new commitment to reduce absolute emissions from its activities in the sector. metric tons of CO2e.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 5, 2023

a climate change advisor at the World Bank, told CBC. Cenovus Energy Chief Sustainability Officer Rhona DelFrari told CBC her company has cut its methane emissions 59% over three years, and is aiming for an 80% reduction from 2019 levels—a considerably easier benchmark than the 2012 reference year in the new federal standard—by 2028.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 7, 2022

The United Nations has created a High-Level Expert Group on the Net Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities to develop standards for net zero emissions pledges by businesses, investors, cities and regions.

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3BL Media

MAY 27, 2022

Establishes Sustainability Office and appoints Mike Faillo as Chief Sustainability Officer. DESCRIPTION: CINCINNATI, May 27, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Fifth Third today announced six new operational sustainability targets to be achieved by 2030. SOURCE: Fifth Third Bancorp.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It was just 120 years ago, on December 17, 1903, that the Wright Brothers of Dayton, Ohio mastered the air with a controlled, powered flight in what we now know as an “aircraft” on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. His new assigned mission: elevate Boeing’s focus to enable the company to achieve a more sustainable future.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Founded in 2019, London-based Pollination works with financial institutions, large companies, and governments to implement net zero and nature-positive transition strategies, with expertise provided in areas including finance, investment, corporate governance and strategy, technology, law, and policy.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 9, 2021

By issuing bonds, loans, or other financial instruments, the companies hope to support clean energy and socially conscious projects in the pursuit of net-zero emissions. Read more: NY Green Bank raises $314 million to meet demand for clean energy project financing.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 18, 2022

Sectoral representation is dominated by various tech segments, including telecoms, chipmakers, computer makers and business service providers, while 10 banks make up the largest single sector. Esther An, Chief Sustainability Officer, City Developments Limited. 70 86 Nordea Bank Abp Finland NZAM, NZAO, NZBA C+.

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3BL Media

MAY 9, 2022

Establishes Sustainability Office and Appoints Mike Faillo as Chief Sustainability Officer. DESCRIPTION: CINCINNATI, May 9, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Fifth Third today announced six new operational sustainability targets to be achieved by 2030. SOURCE: Fifth Third Bancorp.

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ESG Today

JULY 24, 2024

Aerospace giant Airbus announced today an investment in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) technology and production company LanzaJet, forming part of part of LanzaJet’s current $100 million growth equity funding round, aimed at enabling the company to continue scaling its ethanol-to-SAF technology. Shell , and Suncor Energy.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

This week in ESG news: BNP Paribas faces first-ever commercial bank climate lawsuit; HSBC unveils new financed emissions goals; Republicans urge Congress to block ESG investing rule; Allianz to vote against companies who don’t tie pay to ESG goals; United Airlines launches venture fund for sustainable aviation fuel startups; India proposes ESG investing (..)

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The launch of the new ETF comes as Singapore endeavors to establish itself as a hub for sustainable finance in Asia, and to attract capital from investors looking to align their investments with climate considerations.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

According to MAS, the new ESG disclosure platform comes as a proliferation of sustainability reporting frameworks and standards worldwide and inconsistent data collection methods have created significant disclosure challenges for companies and poor ESG data comparability.

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