Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

24 – DWS Group, the $869 billion wealth manager spun out of Deutsche Bank two years ago, has cut back its New York-based sustainable investing team and shelved impact funds targeting microfinance institutions and renewable energy in sub-Saharan energy. The post DWS cuts back sustainable investing funds and teams in U.S.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 13, 2021

ImpactAlpha, October 13 – Blue Like an Orange was launched in 2017 by former World Bank officials Bertrand Badré, Amer Baig and Suprotik. The post AXA takes a minority stake in Blue Like an Orange sustainable investment firm appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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3BL Media

JULY 5, 2022

SOURCE: Regions Bank. as well as Regions’ focus on making banking easier through investments in technology and digital capabilities. This includes supporting customers by providing sustainable investing and financing opportunities related to their transition to a more sustainable future.

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Impact Alpha

APRIL 14, 2020

Join Tideline’s Christina Leijonhufvud and impact investors Nuveen, LeapFrog Investments and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for an inside look at best practices in impact management. The Operating Principles for Impact Management, introduced a year ago by the International Finance Corp., have emerged as the.

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ESG Today

JUNE 5, 2023

The ESAs include The European Banking Authority (EBA), The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA), and The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). Banking regulator EBA found a “clear increase in the total number of potential cases of greenwashing.”

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 29, 2023

This ESG Talk mini-series highlights two episodes featuring Tensie Whelan, director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business. Part one introduces CSB’s innovative Return on Sustainability Investment—or ROSI—model. Listen Now Looking for more?

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Environmental Finance

MARCH 29, 2023

Banka Slovenije plans to increase its investments in green, social and sustainability bonds to €400 million ($433 million) by the end of 2025 and reduce the carbon footprint of its private sector investments.

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Environmental Finance

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Media coverage of the growing anti-ESG backlash in the US fails to recognise the growing sustainable investment opportunities in the states, the New York Green Bank said.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 3, 2022

and Canadian banks are threatening to withdraw because of new membership criteria requiring a fossil fuel phase-down. The displeasure, especially by large North American banks, threatens to rupture the increasingly fragile alliance. says Baltej Sidhu, an analyst with National Bank of Canada, in an interview with The Globe and Mail.

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ESG Today

JULY 10, 2023

The statement said: “The proposed approach would limit investor access to the consistent, comparable and reliable information needed to inform decisions and allocate capital in line with sustainability goals, including those of the European Green Deal, the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and the EU Climate Law.”

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 20, 2023

Of the 6,720 companies the Corporate Knights team analyzed for our 2023 Global 100 ranking of the world’s most sustainable corporations, a select few stand out. The German bank had the highest ratio of cash taxes paid over the 2017 to 2021 period of any G100 company, at 30% (down from 34.63% in the previous period). It pumped €8.6

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3BL Media

MARCH 11, 2024

by Maria Lettini, CEO of the US SIF: The Sustainable Investment Forum As we celebrate Women’s History Month, it is again a time of reflection. The World Bank estimated that there are still almost 2.4 We delight in the pockets of progress over the years but reiterate that there is certainly no room for complacency.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 6, 2023

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including Carmignac , NBIM, Chronos Sustainability, RBC BlueBay, the IA and EQ Investors. French asset manager Carmignac has appointed Lloyd McAllister as Head of Sustainable Investment.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

20 – The world’s largest multilateral bank will no longer fund fossil fuel projects post-2022. The European Investment Bank is on a new strategy to unlock $1.1 trillion for climate finance and sustainable investment over the next decade. ImpactAlpha, Nov.

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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. More than any other group, millennials are keen to make an impact with their money.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Yet many Canadian banks, pension funds, insurers and large companies still underinvest in clean energy and disproportionately invest in oil, gas and coal. Earlier this year, Canada was recognized as a “low-regulation jurisdiction” on sustainable finance by a UN sustainable investment group.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 9, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including OTPP, IOSCO, Legal & General, AXA IM, Persefoni and UKSIF. . Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board has appointed Anna Murray as Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Sustainable Investing.

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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. trillion in assets.

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3BL Media

JUNE 29, 2022

DESCRIPTION: As sustainable investing remains a focus in the market, investors are searching for clarity on investment opportunities and risks arising from various ESG factors. Our Approach to Sustainable Investing. Impact of Sustainability on Portfolio Construction. SOURCE: Northern Trust.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

But Salkeld at ShareAction called for a much more active approach from the authorities to encourage this newly-released money into sustainable investments. “We This would not prevent fossil fuel investment but would make it more expensive.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 4, 2023

The new President of the World Bank, Ajay Banga, recently spoke about investment’s role in delivering positive change. Sustainable investing of every kind is to some degree geared towards addressing the biggest threats facing our planet and its inhabitants, which means our collective response must itself be monumental.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including MSCI, Tumelo, DSD Lab, Exabel, YoujiVest, R3 and Hope for Justice. . The EBA ESG Pillar 3 disclosure standards are a mandatory requirement for banks with securities traded on a regulated market of any EU member state.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Private banking and asset management company Edmond de Rothschild announced today the appointment of Nathalie Wallace as Chief Sustainability Officer. She has also served as global head of ESG investment strategy at State Street Global Advisors and as a Director at sustainability-focused non-profit Ceres.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 28, 2024

This week in ESG news: EU lawmakers agree to delay sustainability reporting standards for specific sectors, non-EU companies; HSBC launches net zero transition plan; BlackRock invests $500 million in clean energy infrastructure developer; GRI launches biodiversity reporting standard; Capgemini survey finds most business leaders plan to increase sustainability (..)

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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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Chris Hall

JANUARY 26, 2024

Follow that – ExxonMobil’s decision to sue two shareholders sent ripples across the sustainable investment pond, ahead of another fractious annual general meeting (AGM) season. Banking on transition – Banks’ role in the net zero transition was in the headlines this week, for a number of reasons.

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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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ESG Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

The green loan was provided by a consortium including 23 commercial banks, in addition to the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Nordic Investment Bank (NIB), who are both supported by the European Commission’s InvestEU programme , which mobilizes investment towards sustainable investment, innovation and job creation in Europe.

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ESG Today

MARCH 24, 2024

Deutsche Bank Ties Senior Exec Compensation to Loan Book Decarbonization Goals Private Equity & Venture Capital Carbon Accounting and Management Startup Greenly Raises $52 Million Fullerton Fund Management Raises $100 Million for Decarbonization Opportunities-Focused Private Equity Fund KKR Acquires Majority Stake in U.S.

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ESG Today

APRIL 17, 2024

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the central bank and financial regulator of Singapore, announced today that it will allocate S$35 million (USD$26 million) over the next three years to support upskilling and reskilling initiatives in order to develop sustainable finance specialists in the financial services sector.

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3BL Media

MAY 10, 2022

DESCRIPTION: From April 20-22, 2022, EarthX hosted the 6th Annual E-Capital Summit which convened more than 230 leading investors, innovators, dealmakers, industry and innovation ecosystem leaders to help catalyze action and impact related to sustainability investing and business innovation.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 15, 2024

Deram said: “As Flexstone’s clients continue to develop sustainable investment strategies, we are thrilled to have someone as experienced and talented as Samira leading this effort. In addition to her role at Flexstone, Boussem teaches Sustainable investing at Université Paris Dauphine—PSL.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 1, 2023

The federally appointed Sustainable Finance Action Council (SFAC) has submitted a report to the Department of Finance that lays out the key recommendations for the establishment of a transition taxonomy. The Canadian sustainable finance council comprises 25 institutions, including banks, pension funds, insurance companies and credit unions.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Divestment can lead to more sustainability in the real economy,” said Martin Rohleder, the university’s chair of finance and banking, calling it “the first empirical evidence on the impact of divestment.”. U of T is also the first university to join the U.N.’s

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

To date, however, OSFI has failed to implement a mandatory approach to risk management beyond a broad expectation that banks, pension funds and insurance companies disclose their practices. The PRI report urges the federal government to take specific action to improve sustainable finance regulations.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 13, 2022

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