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Responsible-investing trailblazer awarded Order of Canada

Corporate Knights

I first met Moira Hutchinson in 1987 when I was working on the first of my series of books on responsible investment. She was generous with her time and provided a wealth of insight into “ethical investing,” as responsible investing was known then. . Both divestment and shareholder action have a role.

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ESG squeezed between Republican attacks on ‘woke capitalism’ and climate investors

Corporate Knights

The company holds more than US$300 billion in fossil fuel investments, including more than $100 billion in Texas companies. In its NZAM disclosures , BlackRock says it expects its portfolio companies to evolve toward net-zero, which means that it doesn’t need to divest its fossil fuel investments.

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Public Pension Plans Face up to Politicisation  

Chris Hall

DeSantis is also proposing banning the state from giving ESG-related information to credit rating agencies when it issues bonds and barring investment firms that engage in ESG from lending to Florida’s state or local governments. US ESG funds saw outflows of US$6.1 billion in Q422, compared to US$0.3