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How Millennials Can Make an Impact With Their Money

3BL Media

According to a 2021 survey by Morgan Stanley, 99 percent of millennials surveyed were interested in sustainable investing, an all-time high. Interest in sustainability persisted despite the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change is the key focus.

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La Banque Postale Launches €1 Billion Energy Transition Infrastructure Fund

ESG Today

According to La Banque Postale, the new impact debt fund, classified as Article 8 under the SFDR regulation, will provide long-term support for projects that make a substantial contribution to mitigating climate change or are committed to decarbonizing their operations. It will be deployed over a three-year period.

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Businesses and investors need to roll up their sleeves and join the race to revive biodiversity

Corporate Knights

The Living Planet Report 2022 shows an average decline of 69% in wildlife populations since 1970, thus emphasizing the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change driven by human activities. Unlike the climate crisis that led to the signing of the Paris Agreement , biodiversity loss has received little attention until now.

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Take Five: Into the Stratosphere

Chris Hall

Many of the difficulties stem from how multilateral development banks (MDBs) operate and interact with the private sector, but one channel for private investment flows was also flagged as problematic this week. Perhaps more significant was the African Development Bank’s US$750 million issuance, which attracted 275 investors.

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Redefining ‘Business as Usual’: Three Ways to Overcome Barriers to ESG and Climate Finance

James Militzer

But as the negative impacts of global challenges like climate change grow, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that business as usual won’t even work for businesses themselves. Meanwhile, most people – 79% overall and 90% of investors under age 45 – say they want to invest in socially and environmentally friendly ways.

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List of the Top Sustainability Focused Private Equity Firms

Richard Matthews

This alphabetized list of PEs is composed of firms that focus on one or more of the following SDGs: Climate action, clean energy, sustainable cities and communities, quality education, innovation and infrastructure, life below water, and life on land. CrossBoundary focuses on clean energy, cleantech, climate change and education.

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UK Fails to Reassure Investors on Net Zero Commitment

Chris Hall

This is the view of experts speaking to ESG Investor in response to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s 2023 Autumn Statement on 22 November, which many investors had hoped would increase certainty around the government’s climate policy ambitions following months of u-turns and rollbacks.