ESG Today

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The ruling comes as financial institutions and other companies increasingly face regulatory scrutiny over greenwashing concerns. Earlier this year, the CEO of Deutsche Bank’s investment arm DWS resigned after police raided the firms’ Frankfurt offices as part of an investigation into greenwashing allegations.

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Net Zero Greenwashing Banking Paris Agreement 119

Chris Hall

JULY 1, 2022

Sustainable finance, until recently still a niche activity, is now a mainstream strategic consideration for banks, asset managers and insurers. Fancy writes: “To fix our system and curb a growing [greenwashing] disaster, we need government to fix the rules.”. One takes a step, signals the other and they take a step.”.

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Net Zero UNEP Greenwashing Banking 98

B the Change

JULY 7, 2022

Institutional investors are leading in this area; these are mutual funds, pension funds, sovereign funds, insurance companies, banks and financial institutions, family offices, and corporate investors. The numbers speak for themselves: According to the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance, over $35.5 For everyone?

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Banking Chief Sustainability Officer Impact Investing Paris Agreement 98

Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This March, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a sustainable business forum in Vancouver “things have changed” since the country signed up to the Paris Agreement on climate change. Examples include Bank of Canada and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.

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Climate Change Net Zero Paris Agreement Banking 52

Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 9, 2020

Defining Metrics: Ensuring Impact for Sustainable Development Perrine Toledano, Head of Extractive Industries at the Columbia University Center on Sustainable Investment moderated this session, emphasizing the lack of standardized sustainability metrics and the extent to which this delays progress on the SDGs.

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Net Zero Decarbonize Paris Agreement Shipping 52

3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2023

The price signal from the biggest market in term of traded value, the European Union, will be muted as lawmakers eye carbon as a piggy bank to fund the bloc’s shift from Russian gas. The World Bank estimates that a carbon price of $50 to $100 per ton of CO2 is required by 2030 to meet the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Supply Chains Supply Chain Paris Agreement Divestment 130