ESG Today

MARCH 18, 2025

The announcement by UBS marks the latest in a series of moves by banks globally to withdraw or pull back on climate commitments, although UBS changes appear less drastic than those by some of its peers.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Across the continent, business schools are embracing local narratives , turning the classroom into a space where African ingenuity and global relevance meet and changing how students see themselves – not just as participants but as creators of a more sustainable and equitable global economy.

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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., women-owned businesses have grown 114% in the last two decades.

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3BL Media

JULY 3, 2024

Through savings groups, entrepreneurship programming, and supply chain policy advisory, we’re increasing women’s control, capability, confidence, and choice to earn, save, and invest in themselves, their businesses, families, and communities. Everyone benefits when women are active, dynamic players in local economies and societies.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 10, 2021

How do they adequately analyze their human rights and racial equity practices both within their own operations and throughout their supply chains? The goal of building a just and inclusive economy may seem daunting and even impossible in the current context of racial tension, economic inequity and widespread systemic discrimination.

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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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3BL Media

MAY 23, 2024

kilograms of plastic waste from entering the ocean since the start of our partnership with Plastic Bank [1] 100% renewable electricity sourcing at all CooperVision facilities in New York and the United Kingdom Governance Adherence to high standards of ethics, compliance and accountability provides long-term value for our stakeholders.

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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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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Companies face a growing array of climate risks more immediate and severe than previously believed, from extreme weather events disrupting supply chains to rising climate litigation and regulations against carbon-intensive industries. For many, it’s simply because they don’t understand it.

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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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James Militzer

JUNE 27, 2024

Though many analysts have concerns about its potential to make some professions obsolete, others point out that AI and other tech jobs that support remote work can also be a source of new, stable jobs for many in the Global South — especially in rapidly growing countries in Africa, home to many of the world’s fastest-growing economies.

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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

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We Mean Business Coalition

APRIL 12, 2023

When we discuss scale, we cannot afford to ignore the millions of small and medium sized businesses – or SMEs – that drive global economies and create the fabric of local communities. As corporate customers face increasing scrutiny over their supply chain emissions, businesses of all sizes must become more transparent.

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We Mean Business Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

With supply-chain emissions on average 11.4 With more and more of the world’s leading companies now committed to decarbonization, including through their supply chains, SMEs can expect even more pressure from their biggest corporate suppliers and customers to cut their emissions. Collaboration is key. within reach.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Improved visibility of the role of plastics in business processes and supply chains will help, according to environmental disclosure platform CDP, but forward-looking metrics will also be needed to guide future investments. .

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Such were the words of Snorre Gjerde, Lead Investment Stewardship Manager at Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), as he evidenced the need for a better view of companies’ exposure to biodiversity risk and their impact on nature, speaking at an event hosted by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

Even Germany’s decision to permanently shelve Nord Stream 2 , the partial ejection of Russian banks from Swift , and oil and gas majors exiting equity partnerships with Russian companies in recent days have been ignored by the former intelligence officer. Economic sanctions have so far failed to shake President Vladimir Putin’s resolve.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Goldman Sachs ‘s and Deutsche Bank’s DWS) for exaggerating claims about their products’ sustainability credentials. Examples are the Swiss art 964 and the German supply chain act. Figure 3: Calculated impacts of company A for the fiscal year 2019 (own operations and upstream supply chain).

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 19, 2022

Firstly, the global economy is in the midst of the clean energy transition, one of the biggest changes to an economic system since the second industrial revolution, which introduced mass production in the late 19 th and early 20 th century. Dynamic market expansion.

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James Militzer

AUGUST 26, 2024

Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is falling short , and there are still around 4 billion people living on incomes below $8 per day — the widely used income threshold for the “base of the pyramid” in today’s global economy. By 2022, Jaza Duka had provided over Ksh 1.

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 30, 2020

Paul Polman, Chair of the International Chambers of Commerce and the UN Global Compact, and Co-Founder of IMAGINE, said, “ Happiness and the Sustainable Development Goals are nearly the same…. It’s going to take all of us working together to get through this.” Now more than ever, it is important to be forward-thinking and optimistic.

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Carlos Sanchez

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In this context, several countries and companies have taken up the challenge, and currently, 90% of the global economy and a third of the 2,000 largest companies have net-zero pledges. Companies release carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere due to their operations and supply chain.

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B the Change

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

At the core of every B Local are B Corps — for-profit companies using the power of business to transform the global economy to benefit all people, communities, and the planet. B Locals are place-based communities of people using business as a force for good. It’s not just the actions of a single company,” he said.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 29, 2023

At the same time, Russia’s war in Ukraine and the impacts of the pandemic “have cruelly revealed to the world’s democracies the risks of economic reliance on dictatorships,” prompting countries to “friendshore their economies and build their critical supply chains.”

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James Militzer

MARCH 3, 2025

In 2008, the failure of a single institution, Lehman Brothers, triggered a global financial crisis. The crisis crippled the global economy, not because of Lehman alone, but because of the unseen interdependencies that held the worlds financial system together. The same is about to happen with international aid.

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3BL Media

JULY 27, 2023

That loss would be a massive hit to the global economy. is not a party to the convention, but that matters little in these days of the global economy and the multinational companies many of you work for or the international supply chains you are all part of. I have to clarify that the U.S.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The frequency of catastrophic heatwaves, flooding and droughts continues to have an increasingly deadly and devastating impact on all parts of society—including the global economy. These disasters impact supply chains, products, and the services on which consumers rely, and the impacts will only increase without dramatic action.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

For example, the Mission Possible Partnership gets leading heavy-industry companies, banks and governments to create investment-grade “net-zero” sector strategies in seven key areas of the global economy — aviation, shipping, trucks, chemicals, steel aluminum and cement.

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James Militzer

MARCH 14, 2023

This has important indirect effects on economy-wide productivity, since this leads many non-importing firms to upgrade their technology as well, just due to the fact of being in the same supply chains as firms that are importing and exporting. What Does the Future Hold for Globalization?

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Global Resilience Index launched today, will help improve the way insurers, financiers and investors measure the resilience of countries, companies and supply chains. and the European Union, now covers more than two-thirds of the global economy. Coal emits around 980 grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour (kWh), 2.5

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 28, 2022

It is a tall, and some would say impossible, order to reform the global economy and almost halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, but we must try,” said Andersen. Mobilize central banks: central banks are increasingly interested in addressing the climate crisis, but more concrete action on regulations is needed.

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 20, 2020

Confronting the Crisis: Priorities for the Global Economy’, 9 April 2020. Joint Statement World Bank Group and IMF Call to Action on Debt of IDA Countries’, 25 March 2020. Europe Could Face More Drug Shortages as Coronavirus Squeezes Supplies’. World Bank. World Bank Blogs. IMF Blog. ‘How

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 2, 2024

In related news, NatWest Group issued this week the first bond by a UK bank dedicated to financing and re-financing electric vehicles (EV), raising net proceeds of €750 million (US$811.4 million) from institutional investors based in the UK, Europe and Asia. The EV Green Bond originated from the group’s asset finance arm – Lombard.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

In that role, she was engaged in helping clients develop strategies for supply chain transparency disclosures and claim, emissions reporting and human rights. . "In Celine Herweijer, Partner, Global Innovation and Sustainability Leader, PwC. It aims to reach net-zero for its own operations and supply chain by 2030.)

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Foley & Hoag

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Key Takeaways: The initial wave of sanctions targeted Russian banks and the financial industry plus individual “inner circle” elites, with more sanctions likely to follow in the coming weeks as events unfold. The entities designated on February 24, 2022 include: VTB Bank Public Joint Stock Company (“VTB”) and 20 of its subsidiaries.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 23, 2025

The work of the TCFD paved the way, in 2021, for the launch of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), an international cohort of banks committed to transitioning their financed emissions. At its peak, the NZBA included 140 banks representing around US$64 trillion in assets.

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