Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

As a start, the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action said they recognised the need to “mainstream nature” into economic, fiscal, and financial policies, acknowledging the need to “play a greater role” in international biodiversity policy discussions, as well as in implementing the GBF in their own jurisdictions.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

This approach is often seen as necessary in the context of pressing systemic risks such as climate change. When issuers are first raising money, we are in a better position to push our ideas, as well as talk to the wider circle of banks and debt capital markets to adapt best practices,” he says.

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Environmental Finance

JUNE 26, 2025

In response to the risks posed by climate change and the need for socioeconomic growth in Nigeria and across Africa, we have developed our ESG strategy to mitigate those risks while leveraging opportunities within that space; prioritising climate resilience, social impact, strong governance and transparency."

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Eco-Business

JUNE 6, 2025

Small island states are especially susceptible to climate impacts such as flooding. They are also driving legal battles to force action against climate change. But in 2022, it looked at perhaps the biggest international question there is: climate change. Image: ILO Asia-Pacific , CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Flickr.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Canadas national pension plan is getting poor marks for failing to pursue its commitments on climate change, even as some of the countrys top plans are taking concrete steps to meet their ambitious goals, says the watchdog group Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health in a new report. Several U.S.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 16, 2025

These efforts must be pursued in tandem with solid waste management; air pollution abatement must also be integrated with climate change mitigation. While these are steps in the right direction, a careful World Bank assessment considers them seriously insufficient to protect health in this decade. Infrastructure 10.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

While criticisms of Trumps abrupt demolition of USAID have largely focused on global public health projects that have long enjoyed bipartisan support, the effort also threatens billions of dollars meant to combat climate change. Many commitments under the Paris Agreement are funding-contingent, and thats very much in peril.

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Stanford Social Innovation

JUNE 2, 2025

Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley have already exited the Net Zero Banking Alliance , citing political pressure and legal concerns; BP and HSBC have scaled back their net-zero targets, reflecting a broader trend of corporations diluting their sustainability goals in response to shifting political and economic landscapes.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 15, 2025

The umbrella organization for global financial-industry action on climate change, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), is in crisis after major U.S. banks from the GFANZ-affiliated banking alliance. financial institutions quit the alliance in recent weeks. The GFANZ crisis comes as U.S.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2025

Thats why the super election year was also considered crucial for climate change a chance for electorates to install leaders who could shepherd the delicate decisions required to drive down our planet-heating emissions. This suggests that crafting a climate message that resonates shouldnt be that hard. But it has been.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 23, 2024

By: Mike Hayes, Climate Change and Decarbonization Leader at KPMG Its just over a month since I returned home from the COP 29 summit in Baku. COP 29 also resulted in an agreement on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which is designed to facilitate a global carbon market for both countries and corporates.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2025

The banking sectors journey to net zero emissions has the potential to deliver or dash global climate ambitions but that journey is fraught with challenges and complications. Worse still, without committed banks, the real economys pathway to net zero becomes far more uncertain.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2025

The banking sector’s journey to net zero emissions has the potential to deliver or dash global climate ambitions – but that journey is fraught with challenges and complications. Worse still, without committed banks, the real economy’s pathway to net zero becomes far more uncertain.”

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Eco-Business

JUNE 10, 2025

Image: World Bank Photo Collection , CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Flickr. link] Copy By Zhou Xiaozhu, Dialogue Earth 7 minute read June 10, 2025 On the day he became president again, Donald Trump signed an executive order to take the US out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. billion originally pledged in 2022.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 23, 2025

Also targeted for suppression: the study of climate change the basic physical process of global warming that has been accurately understood and described since the early 19th century. Simply, the fiscal threats posed by climate change and the energy transition are emerging more and more clearly into view.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change? When it comes to the climate crisis, it’s not just what you make and sell, it’s what you do, and for whom you do it. According to the group’s scorecard , Vault 100 firms: litigated 286 cases exacerbating climate change (versus three cases mitigating it).

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

HSBC is latest bank to pledge net-zero financed emissions by mid-century. HSBC has become the latest bank to commit to achieving net-zero financed emissions, announcing Monday that it intends to align its portfolio of investments and debt financing with global climate targets by mid-century. Cecilia Keating.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Banks are shelling out more than US$500 billion a year to finance the largest contributors to climate change in the Global South, a region that is especially vulnerable to the roiling weather disasters gripping the planet. It found that banks have provided an estimated $3.2

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

A coalition of environmental groups is calling on the federal government to regulate climate commitments made by banks and other financial institutions to avoid greenwashing and accelerate change. . Treasury Department. .

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GreenBiz

MARCH 26, 2021

Despite net-zero pledges, banks used $750 billion to finance fossil fuels in 2020. Net-zero commitments may have ricocheted across banking sector over the last 18 months, but big banks' attestations of climate concern did not stop many from expanding financing for the world's top fossil fuel firms during the pandemic year.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The real question is, are the world’s banks ready to fund the development of renewable technologies at scale, and updating all the infrastructure in between? And which banks will take the lead? . Corporate Knights researchers ranked 60 banks for which they found quantifiable sustainable-revenue data from an initial pool of 91 banks.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The federal Competition Bureau’s decision to investigate charges of misleading advertising against the Royal Bank of Canada is a sign that federal regulators are paying closer attention to the climate crisis and its causes, says the environmental law charity that filed the case.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 24, 2022

In the pursuit of its net-zero 2050 goal, Canada needs a rigorous strategy to require banks and other key financial system players, including Crown corporations, to fully align their operations with the country’s international climate commitments. Matt Price, co-founder of Investors for Paris Compliance.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 15, 2024

Wading into this hot-button arena is an institution that has generally kept quiet on this front: a new paper by the World Bank lays out a roadmap for how the world can substantially reduce the emissions from food systems partly by redirecting the subsidies given to the meat and dairy industries.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 19, 2022

London-based HSBC Holdings says it will cease financing for the development of new oil and gas fields in order to tackle climate change while carving out its Canadian unit from the policy change. We have no direct exposure outside of Canada and will update this policy following completion of the sale of HSBC Bank Canada.”.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 21, 2022

Many of the world’s biggest banks face the enormous challenge of realigning their entire loans and investment operations in the coming years to put themselves on a credible path to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Royal Bank of Canada and Toronto-Dominion Bank. Royal Bank of Canada and Toronto-Dominion Bank.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

bank to commit to measuring and disclosing the climate impact of its loans and investments, announcing last week that it has joined a multi-trillion dollar group of global financial institutions developing a standardized method for carbon accounting. Morgan Stanley has become the first major U.S. trillion in assets. trillion in assets.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 28, 2023

As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) highlighted last week, we are in the midst of a climate emergency. This cannot continue if we are realistically going to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement and keep global warming below 1.5 ° C. All regulators must be de facto climate regulators.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Recent months have seen major moves on climate action by some of the world’s largest private banks, including JPMorgan Chase, HSBC and Morgan Stanley. What sets this latest wave of climate pledges by financial institutions apart from past announcements? They won’t have changed their business model.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 4, 2022

They will also require massive amounts of capital from financial markets that still don’t adequately value the risks and opportunities associated with climate change. However, critics in Canada argue the banks have not produced credible plans to achieve their goals.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Behind climate change, the biggest threat to the Great Barrier Reef is poor water quality. Behind climate change, the biggest threat to the Great Barrier Reef is poor water quality. HSBC’s climate commitments include investing at least $750 billion in sustainable financing over the next 10 years. HSBC paid $36.40

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Federal Reserve Board announced Thursday that it will launch a pilot climate scenario analysis with six large banks, aimed at assessing the resilience of the financial institutions to various climate scenarios, and enhancing the ability of supervisors and firms to measure and manage climate-related financial risks.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

He used the carbon pricing risk assessment in Figure 1 to illustrate the differences the company might see in its operating margins under different climate change scenarios and highlight where investment in carbon-mitigation projects would matter most. . Risk officer: Assessing exposure to climate-linked credit risk .

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Biden already has rejoined the Paris Agreement, committed to advocating for environmental justice and rolled out a government-wide focus on racial justice. Sustainable investors were among the early voices urging companies to take action on climate change.

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ESG Today

JULY 4, 2022

The European Central Bank (ECB) announced today a series of moves to further incorporate climate change considerations into its monetary policy framework, including actions to decarbonize its portfolio of corporate bond holdings over time, and to introduce climate-related disclosure requirements for collateral.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 6, 2022

C does not mean we have breached the iconic threshold of the Paris Agreement, but it does reveal that we are edging ever closer to a situation where 1.5°C Some of Canada’s largest banks, including the Royal Bank of Canada and Toronto-Dominion Bank, more than doubled their financing of the oil sands in 2021 to $16.8

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Global Renewable News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

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