3BL Media

APRIL 3, 2022

As the lynchpin of the global economy, financial institutions not only carry a responsibility to help mitigate climate change, they are also vulnerable to its financial risks. That climate risks are systemic risks for banks is clear. The top-down analysis that we did in our reports covers a specific piece of the biggest U.S.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Danske Bank Asset Management announced the launch of a new team climate and nature team, advising and supporting the firm’s investment teams in making decisions based on the risks and opportunities related to nature and biodiversity. Steinmüller said: “Nature constitutes half of the foundation of the global economy.

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Environmental Finance

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The sustainability-linked bond (SLB) market will continue to evolve as it diversifies to include issuers in previously underrepresented sectors, despite a volatile macro backdrop, an executive at NatWest bank has said.

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GreenBiz

JULY 12, 2022

Transitioning the global economy to net-zero emissions may be the most Herculean task modern society has faced. To sustain a healthy society, strong economy and dignified life on earth, there is no other viable option.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 24, 2024

Washington and Commercial Banking leader. Through their partnership, we are able to inspire and prepare students for success in a global economy and their thriving communities. The funding and support provided by KeyBank will empower us to expand our reach and make a meaningful impact on more students' lives.

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ESG Today

APRIL 18, 2024

Investors in the Climate Innovation Fund include sovereign wealth funds, pensions, insurance companies, banks, family offices and high-net-worth individuals.

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3BL Media

MARCH 4, 2024

Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, we recognize the impact women-owned businesses make on the global economy. According to the World Bank, one in three businesses globally have women among their principal owners, and in the U.S., Inclusion leads to innovation, opportunity, and impact.

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

AUGUST 24, 2023

Generative AI could add enormous value across the global economy, from banking to life sciences. The companies that use the technology quickly and effectively will have the edge.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Data, analytics and research services provider MSCI has developed a new solution to support banks looking to align with the European Banking Authority’s (EBA) ESG Pillar 3 prudential framework for measuring and reporting on ESG and climate-related risks.

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Energy Central

APRIL 3, 2023

NYT BY CLIFFORD KRAUSS, NOW World Bank Warns of Lost Decade for Global Economy Lender sees demographics, war and pandemic aftereffects holding back growth WSJ BY HARRIET TORRY, APRIL 2, 2023. million barrels a day.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

For example, in the food sector, Imagine is working with 30 companies on a project that involves looking at regenerative agriculture, setting up a common data bank and creating a joint labeling system. Governments already have spent $12 trillion to $13 trillion just to stabilize global economies ravaged by COVID-19.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

UK-based bank Barclays will no longer directly finance new oil and gas projects, and will require its energy sector clients to produce transition plans or decarbonization strategies by the beginning of next year, according to a new “Climate Change Statement” released by the bank.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 22, 2024

The organization is also involved in a lawsuit launched last year against Paris-based global bank BNP Paribas , targeting the bank’s financing for new oil and gas projects and calling for a strong climate policy, based on a similar “duty of vigilance” law in France.

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Energy Central

MARCH 13, 2023

Where is the global economy heading? JP Morgan's research department, meanwhile, has expressed surprise that SVB, for example, has undertaken a bond sale to increase the bank's liquidity so dramatically.

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3BL Media

APRIL 11, 2024

Furthermore, this initiative is also motivated by the prevailing challenges that organizations of all sizes are facing: the ramifications of the pandemic persist, manifesting in a delicate global economy characterized by slow growth, high interest rates, rising debt levels, and pressure on global trade.

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Energy Central

MARCH 14, 2023

Editor's thoughts… Where is the global economy heading? Can Latin America withstand a potential new banking crisis?

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3BL Media

AUGUST 25, 2022

"JA Finance Park's success is a testament to the public-private venture model that brings together businesses and school systems to prepare our local students to succeed in a global economy. JAGW inspires and prepares young people to succeed in a global economy. Truist Bank, Member FDIC.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

Seven Russian banks will likely be cut off from SWIFT; Japan will freeze Russia’s yen reserves; Korea will suspend transactions with seven Russian banks and their subsidiaries. The US and its allies announced a decision on 25 February to shut some of Russian banks out of the SWIFT financial messaging system.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

After Floyd’s death, two-thirds of the corporations listed on the S&P 100 declared their solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, including all the major Wall Street banks. Banks’ discriminatory policies on mortgage lending, checking accounts and small business funding have perpetuated racism for decades, the investors argue.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Here are three things that have actually contributed to the volatility of global energy prices: 1. The global economy was expected to grow by almost 6% in 2021, as wealthy countries vaccinated their populations and emerged from lockdowns. It’s the economic rebound, stupid.

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Chris Hall

JULY 19, 2022

Climate risk analysis typically entails the development of scenario-based stress tests for assessing bank solvency and liquidity, using bank level data. Climate risk analysis requires assumptions on the potential future paths for global emissions of greenhouse gases—and thus temperatures—and their effects,” the paper says.

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James Militzer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In recent years, the proliferation of mobile devices, along with the continent’s poor banking infrastructure, have made Africa fertile ground for explosive growth in mobile money use. According to the GSMA , in 2022, two thirds of the globally processed $1.26 trillion in mobile money transactions occurred in sub–Saharan Africa.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 29, 2022

While high profits at a firm level can indicate economic vitality, at a national level it’s usually a sign of economic rot and oligopolistic market structures (five big banks, four big grocery stores, three big telcos, one big fertilizer company serving 36 million people). 6 24 WSP Global Inc Engineering construction $174,951.00

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 8, 2020

That’s the realm of banks and other financial institutions. "OK, It must be sourced, verified and scored consistently across companies to be meaningful to investors, banks and other interested parties. Sustainable finance is a way of deploying investment capital to create sustainable outcomes at a societal and economy-wide level.".

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Trade is the global economy's lifeblood, with maritime transport at its core. But the carbon footprint of port operations and shipping is substantial, with shipping accounting for nearly 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions , according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

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3BL Media

JANUARY 31, 2022

combines the views of leading multilateral and international organizations such as The World Bank, United Nations, International Finance Corporation, and European Union bodies with top-tier thought leadership to report on the forces influencing and reshaping the global economy.

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3BL Media

JULY 25, 2023

This year’s theme, “Embracing Instability,” highlights the challenges confronting the global economy and underscores the opportunity to better understand and address underlying issues such as persistent inflation, geopolitical tensions, the rise of artificial intelligence and the precarious state of the world’s climate.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

The resources included deep-dive guidelines for seven sectors – including asset owners, asset managers and banks; high-level guidance for 30 sectors of the global economy; and advice on how to undertake a transition planning cycle.

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Chris Hall

JULY 31, 2023

Carbon Tracker’s report also found faults in central banks and regulators’ scenarios, noting that they relied on economic literature that did not provide realistic estimates of the economic damages from climate change.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

And then there are “sub-systemic” shocks, more localized climate-related impacts that “can undermine the financial health of community banks, agricultural banks or local insurance markets, leaving small businesses, farmers and households without access to critical financial services.” Sub-systemic shocks.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Alliance counts French insurer AXA Group, Nordic bank Nordea and UK-based financial services company Legal & General among its membership. Among these, 69 members have set intermediate climate targets in line with the Alliance’s Target-Setting Protocol , amounting to US$8.4 trillion in AUM. trillion in AUM, up from US$7.1

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

For financial institutions such as banks, insurance companies and investment managers, scope 3 emissions from supply chains and lending/investment portfolios are often more complex than for other industries. For example, the indicative financed emissions from the UK financial sector in 2019 were found to be 1.8 trillion USD in fossil fuels.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

“The harsh reality is that emissions are continuing to rise,” says Philipponnat, adding that much of the discussion among policymakers has centred around reducing the CO2 intensity of our global economy. As these perilous climate projections unfold, one might expect an inevitable upheaval in the global economy.

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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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ESG Today

JUNE 27, 2022

A group of CEOs from leading companies and financial institutions issued a call upon G7 governments to institute policies and practices enabling private sector capital mobilization for investment in the transition to a low carbon global economy.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Global Commons Alliance Accountability Accelerator Executive Director. The World Bank estimates that the collapse of natural systems could erase US $2.7 trillion per year from the global economy by 2030. Matic, Ph.D., With over 25% of earth’s species at risk of permanent loss and credible net zero pathways to 1.5°C

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ESG Today

MARCH 31, 2023

Canada unveiled its response to the emerging global race to scale up green energy and clean tech manufacturing capacity, with proposals for over $60 billion in tax credits and an additional $20 billion in sustainable infrastructure investments in its 2023 budget, presented by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland.

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