Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

ICCR and the Shareholder Rights Group have also pu blished a new report on the importance of shareholder proposals , in collaboration with the US Sustainable Investment Forum (SIF). Rules are being changed in the middle of proxy season, putting investors at a strong disadvantage, he added.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 2, 2025

Energy security has become an overriding concern in the last two years as oil and gas prices have shot up, and sustainable finance has faced an increasingly hostile political environment in the United States. Sustainable Investment Forum (US SIF). What does this mean for the year ahead?

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The right to engage Sophie Demaré, Sustainability Investment Analyst for Fixed Income at Federated Hermes, echoes these sentiments. This approach is often seen as necessary in the context of pressing systemic risks such as climate change. Bondholders just have different rights, and levers for engagement.”

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Chris Hall

MARCH 7, 2025

Like several others, Travelers has been hiking home insurance premiums and restricting coverage to protect itself from the financial impacts of extreme weather events associated with climate change, such as the recent Los Angeles fires.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

I needed to be back in Toronto to present our latest sustainable investment research to attendees at a summit hosted by the Principles for Responsible Investment , whose signatories manage US$121 trillion in assets. Around 4 a.m., To my dismay, the high winds would hold steady for the next 48 hours.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 30, 2025

Many suppliers balk at the high capital investment needed to replace gas-based boilers with more energy-efficient technologies, like heat pumps, according to a study by the Apparel Impact Institute (AII), a non-profit promoting sustainable investments. Overall, Bangladeshi fashion suppliers face an investment gap of US$4.8

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Chris Hall

MARCH 14, 2025

Carneys central banking experience, forged in the fires of the global financial crisis and Brexit, may prove priceless to the smallest Group of Seven economy when dealing with a volatile wielder of tariffs. But Carney also has solid green credentials. 3% intra-day losses around Thursday lunchtime, following sharp falls earlier in the week.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 24, 2025

Especially in the US, those that use ESG to describe their investment or business will soon drop the term, if they have not done so already. Sustainability doesn’t serve as a feel-good strategy. It protects portfolios. They deepened their commitment - quietly and strategically.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Pierre Garrault, Senior Policy Adviser at the European Sustainable Investment Forum (Eurosif), points to fund names rules published by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) – which will come into effect from 21 November.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

When I led Canada’s Social Investment Organization (SIO) in the early 2000s, one of our most important debates concerned the question of whether the organization should develop an industry-wide label for socially responsible investment, as sustainable investing was called back then.

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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

JULY 3, 2024

Last month there was a rare meeting, where the chief executives of Canada’s five largest banks testified before Parliament about their climate commitments. Their testimonies proved why new rules to shift finance away from polluting investments are urgently needed. Canada should follow suit.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Canada is lagging in its efforts to drive private capital into sustainable investments to finance solutions on climate change and other environmental challenges. Moreover, she added, having a climate plan is “synonymous with having an economic plan; it is synonymous with having a jobs plan.”

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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.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

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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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A major report published Monday says Canada lacks adequate rules around investing in an era of climate change. And to avoid any doubt, regulators should declare that climate change is indeed relevant to a pension fund’s long-term financial performance.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Canada can succeed on its global climate commitments only if financial institutions move in the same direction and allocate money to climate solutions instead of climate pollution. Earlier this year, Canada was recognized as a “low-regulation jurisdiction” on sustainable finance by a UN sustainable investment group.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 1, 2023

At the GLOBExCHANGE conference, Treasury Board President Mona Fortier and Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault announced that companies wanting to supply the federal government on contracts worth more than $25 million will need to comply with new climate change requirements. C scenarios, Routledge said.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

While many companies, particularly in the fossil fuel and banking sectors, resist any major departure from their lucrative business-as-usual path, the leaders are doubling down on sustainability. In the 2024 Global 100 ranking, the top-ranked firms allocated 55% of their investments to sustainable projects, up from 47% the year prior.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The sustainable investment community already is engaged in this effort, channeling dollars to companies with better environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices. One in every three professionally managed dollars in the United States — $17 trillion — is invested with an ESG focus. We agree that this shift is overdue.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Among the key priorities outlined by the HKMA’s new agenda include directives for banks to reach net zero financed emissions by 2050 and to provide disclosures on climate risks and opportunities, and for the HKMA to incentivize sustainable finance innovation and to provide sustainable-financed training programs for finance professionals.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 19, 2021

Chouinard and his coauthors highlighted the many efforts to dollarize ecosystem services (including efforts by The Nature Conservancy plus PwC, the UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, The World Bank and Puma/Kering plus Trucost and their environmental profit and loss, or EP&L).

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

“The Emerging Leaders program provides a forum where environmentally focused youth can explore and learn about climate solutions and sustainability efforts across public and private sectors,” said Alex Liftman, global environmental executive at Bank of America, which sponsored the program at GreenFin. Sheryl Owen.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 27, 2023

Some of Canada’s largest pension funds, such as the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board , continue to finance oil and gas expansion. And in 2018, Ireland became the first country to divest its national investment fund completely from fossil fuel companies.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 4, 2022

The Morningstar analysis, which was released in July, is the first time the investment community has had an in-depth look at the climate commitments of NZAMI members. . They join other signatories in the banking, insurance and asset owner sectors that are also part of the GFANZ alliance. . Invesco, ranked No.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The sustainable finance industry is facing a growing battle on two fronts as Republican lawmakers ramp up a culture war against “woke capitalism” and investors demand more decisive action on climate change. . Former U.S. Jon Hale, ESG analyst at Morningstar.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 28, 2023

Just as more than 95% of climate scientists accept the truth of climate change, most corporate leaders recognize that their role in society has changed. The average percentage of sustainable revenues achieved by 2023 Best 50 companies is 46.3%, up from 36.8% Especially if they want to succeed long-term.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 8, 2025

The survey also showed that 70% of respondents believe retail investors are likely to drive RI growth over the next two to five years, fuelled by increased concerns about climate change and social justice. Regulators and institutional investors (which includes banks, labour unions and pension funds) followed closely behind.

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Impakter

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Against an all too familiar backdrop of disinformation, political posturing, and climate change-denial, Republicans have started boycotting sustainable investing, labeling environment, social and governance (ESG) backed investment strategies as “Woke Capitalism.”

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Requirements under SFDR include reporting on the alignment of investments with the EU Taxonomy, the EU’s classification system enabling the categorization of economic activities that play key roles in contributing to the EU’s key environmental objectives, starting with climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation.

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Corporate Knights

JULY 14, 2022

Early in our history, we were so unwelcome that on one occasion a bank chairman turned off the microphone at the bank’s annual meeting so that a church representative couldn’t ask a question. . How does this history relate to our climate change crisis and the debate over fossil fuels?

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 13, 2023

In response to accusations of greenwashing and growing regulatory scrutiny, a group of high-powered financial networks is working to standardize the often-opaque jargon of the responsible investing industry. In the beginning, most banks and large money management firms didn’t pay much attention. In the U.S.,

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James Militzer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

According to Peru’s Ministry of Environment’s National Forest Conservation Program for Climate Change Mitigation, Peru (and the world) have lost an average of roughly 100,000 hectares of forest per year since 2006. In fact, they are banking on it. These losses have only accelerated.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

At 28, Kurtis Layden, senior policy advisor in the Office of the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, has been a key advisor on the federal ban on some single-use plastics, taking effect in 2025. Ultimately, I hope to inspire others [so] that we can change the status quo.”. Kurtis Layden. 28, Ottawa. Pratap Sandhu.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 27, 2023

Chauvin framed the most urgent issues facing the planet – climate change, waste, pollution, slave and child labour – as accounting failures. Alyson Slater, head of sustainable investments, Manulife “They didn’t want it done in a fluffy way,” Todd says of her Vancity employers. Recent reports from the U.K.’s

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Mattison joins MSCI after serving as President of S&P Global’s sustainability unit, Sustainable1, and as CEO of carbon and environmental data and risk analysis company Trucost, acquired by S&P Global in 2016. Sustainability and climate change issues are reshaping the global investment landscape.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 21, 2024

This week in ESG news: EU Parliament approves new anti-greenwashing law; investors urge Shell to set Paris-aligned climate targets; Barclays launches new sustainable banking, energy transition investment banking teams; PwC CEO survey finds companies upskilling workers for climate megatrend; Australia drafts law requiring mandatory climate reporting; (..)

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