Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In 2022, CDP saw participation from more than 18,600 companies disclosing their data on climate, with nearly 4,000 contributing data on water security, and over 1,000 on forest-related matters. trillion. The disclosure platform’s alignment with the TNFD framework is expected to be completed by 2024.

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CDP Banking Corporate Social Responsibility UNEP 64

Chris Hall

JUNE 10, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including AXA IM, Macquarie AM, Pollination, Sphera, ISSB, and CDP. . AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has announced the launch of the AXA IM Investment Institute, with the appointment of Chris Iggo as Chair.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 13, 2023

CDP said that it “advocates for a globally aligned approach” to ESG ratings and data products regulation utilising a “global baseline” founded on IOSCO’s guidelines. CDP added that the code is an “important step” towards supporting the transition to a “more transparent and sustainable” financial market.

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3BL Media

JULY 12, 2023

Employees are seeking safety, security, and stability; regulators seek to ensure their communities are protected from contamination and competition for resources; investors are seeking “sustainable investments” and projects; and business leaders must protect and grow their organization in an ever-changing global economy.

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Greenhouse Gas Protocol Climate Change CDP Global Economy 130

3BL Media

JANUARY 24, 2024

Banks will often have dedicated senior resource in the role of Head of Sustainability Reporting or Head of Sustainability disclosures, supported by specialist reporting teams looking at specific frameworks like TCFD, TNFD, CDP and GHG Protocol.

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Banking Value Creation CDP Development 147

Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including Science Based Targets initiative , Chronos Sustainability, WTW, Aviva and Actis. The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has appointed its first CEO, Dr Luiz Fernando do Amaral.

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Net Zero CDP Zero Carbon Sustainable Investment 96

3BL Media

JULY 15, 2022

So, when the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) reports that just 100 companies are responsible for 71% of world GHG emissions, shareholders are highly motivated to advocate for effective counter measures. We now expect these exchanges on carbon offsets to increasingly feature in proxy votes. Location: New York. Satyajit Bose.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 18, 2024

FCA confirms sustainability disclosure and labeling regime The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a policy statement setting out its final rules and guidance on Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and investment labels.

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Green Bonds Greenwashing Net Zero Climate Change 147

Chris Hall

MARCH 18, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including GRI, Sustainalytics, ISS ESG, CDP, Diginex, Esgaia and Normative. .

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Financed emissions are the share of operational emissions from the companies under an institution's investment/lending portfolio, with methodologies such as PCAF or JIM providing a system for measuring these emissions. Clearly much more needs to be done to pivot towards more sustainable investment and lending practices.

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Net Zero Divestment Banking Stranded Assets 147

Chris Hall

MAY 19, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including Aviva Investors, T Rowe Price, EQT, Nuveen, M&G, ICI Global and SBTi. Sam Tripuraneni has been appointed Head of Sustainable Outcomes at UK-based global asset manager Aviva Investors.

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Impact Investing Sustainable Investment Net Zero CDP 40

Chris Hall

AUGUST 16, 2022

The Valuing Water Finance Initiative (VWFI) is coordinated by US sustainable investment network Ceres and is partly modelled on Climate Action 100+, the investor-led global grouping which engages with the most carbon-intensive corporates. . By signing up to the VWFI, 64 investors with combined assets of US$9.8

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CDP Sustainable Investment Development Manufacturing 52

GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

Associate, Corporate Engagement at CDP. Investments Leadership Development Program at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, U.S. Many have cited the past year as an inflection point for sustainable investing. Betty Cheong. Finance is essential for advancing a clean, more just economy.

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Chris Hall

MAY 9, 2022

Emissions reporting standards and frameworks, such as the sustainability disclosure platform CDP and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), are increasingly widely used to communicate corporates’ CO2 output, as well as investor-backed assessments such as the Net Zero Company Benchmark, conducted by Climate Action 100+.

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Net Zero CDP Sustainable Investment Development 52

Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2022

Increasingly, however, we see that loop between the trustee and the manager closing, with the CIO getting a clearer mandate from trustees on their sustainable investment priorities and providing a more granular steer to asset managers on their expectations.”. Deeper ESG insights desired.

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Analytics Impact Investing Climate Change Supply Chains 52

Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

Investment industry bodies have underscored the need for double materiality in response to the UK government’s consultation on non-financial reporting.

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Impact Investing Net Zero CDP Global Economy 52

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Climate TRACE, MSCI, EcoAct, Deloitte, Persefoni and Deepki. . The template is further supported by a coalition of market stakeholders including CDP, the ESG Data Convergence Initiative and the Loan Market Association.

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Sphera

JANUARY 10, 2022

The idea behind this is to create an economically efficient and sustainable financial system that provides more capital for sustainable investments, and this is how investors are influencing sustainability throughout the economy. Products with sustainable investment objectives.

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Net Zero Climate Change Banking Development 97

3BL Media

MARCH 25, 2022

Republic Services is on Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable Companies list and CDP Worldwide’s Climate A List. For every ton of greenhouse gas Clean Harbors generates from operations, it avoids another two tons.

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Chris Hall

JULY 5, 2023

Pietro Bertazzi, Global Director of Policy Engagement and External Affairs at environmental non-profit CDP, had previously warned ESG Investor that the various ESG ratings rules published in different jurisdictions risk a “potential fragmentation” in the regulatory architecture of ESG ratings and data products “at the global scale”.

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Development CDP Greenwashing Sustainable Investment 52

Chris Hall

DECEMBER 9, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including the Green Finance Institute, FTSE Russell, Glass Lewis, GRESB, NatureMetrics and more. Funding from the GCAA is helping train companies in disclosing their impacts and dependencies on nature, in conjunction with CDP.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 12, 2020

On the other hand, sustainability and climate change have never been so much in focus. In 2020, more than 9,600 companies disclosed their environmental impacts through the non-profit CDP platform. It represents a growth of 14% from last year and sets a record on the number of CDP environmental disclosures. Conclusions.

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We Mean Business Coalition

MARCH 24, 2023

At Ceres Global in New York City, 250+ investors and businesses launched a call for policymakers to protect the freedom to invest responsibly, following recent political attempts to frustrate sustainable investment practices.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2023

“Biodiversity in rural England is clearly not the same as a Brazilian biome, and [companies in each region] have vastly different potential risks and impacts,” notes Aela Cozic, Sustainable Investment Analyst and Portfolio Manager at UK-based investment manager Fidelity International.

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Net Zero Development Analytics Sustainable Investment 52

Chris Hall

AUGUST 16, 2023

The ability of corporates to comply is critical to investors, who will increasingly rely on the new standards to make sustainable investments.

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Chief Sustainability Officer Data Analytics CDP Development 98

Carlos Sanchez

APRIL 28, 2021

Sustainable Investment and ESG ratings. The rise of intangibles that are much more sensitive to environmental and social issues has played a crucial role in the growth of investment which considers Environment, Social and Governance factors (ESG investment). Benefits of ESG ratings for Investors and Companies.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

This week in ESG news: CFA Institute launches climate investing certification; BlackRock invests $550 million in carbon capture project; CDP to align with European sustainability reporting standards; KKR raises nearly $3 billion for impact fund; France bans fossil fuel companies from responsible investment funds; GRI, IFRS launch hub to help companies (..)

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Net Zero CDP Chief Sustainability Officer Decarbonize 91

Chris Hall

MAY 4, 2022

Only 1% of over 13,000 corporates across 13 industries and 117 countries disclosed against 24 key climate transition plan indicators, according to a 2021 report by sustainability disclosure platform CDP. Eighty-four percent responded to less than 80% of those indicators. .

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Net Zero Carbon Offsets Paris Agreement Climate Change 52

Chris Hall

DECEMBER 21, 2022

With firms only being “required” to disclose, “it will now be up to individual governments to implement policies that ensure this happens and we hope that this will be through enforcing mandatory disclosure on nature,” said Helen Finlay, Global Associate Director for Policy Engagement at environmental disclosure platform CDP.

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Development CDP Paris Agreement Green Bonds 52

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

ESG portfolios not only have outperformed traditional financial assets this year, but also a data analysis prepared by Morningstar, a financial advisory research firm, concluded that almost 60 percent of sustainable investments delivered higher returns than comparable funds over the past decade.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Moreover, companies will use voluntary frameworks and surveys such as GRI, SASB, CDP, UNGC, and Ecovadis to answer requests from customers, investors and other stakeholders. Among investors, sustainable investing is evolving from negative screening toward engaging with companies.

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Chris Hall

MAY 18, 2022

The World Economic Forum noted that India’s net zero transition will unlock US$1 trillion in sustainable investment opportunities by 2030 and as much as US$15 trillion by 2070, creating over 50 million jobs. . Solar power isn’t the only avenue into renewable investing in India. . Branching out .

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Net Zero COP26 Development Green Bonds 52

Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2023

In its recent report on environmental disclosures by firms in Southeast Asia, covering climate, water and deforestation, disclosure platform CDP found a 25% increase in forest-related disclosures, with growth rates in the region outstripping global trends.

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Supply Chains Supply Chain Divestment CDP 52

Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2022

Management of nature-related risks, impacts and dependencies could soon become central to asset owners’ sustainable investment strategies. A recent analysis of submissions by 675 large companies to environmental disclosure platform CDP found that 211 businesses faced forest-related risks of US$79.2

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 21, 2022

New Morningstar analysis suggests that sustainable investments paid in 2021, but many boards are not currently on the same page as shareholders, let alone a wider range of stakeholders. This continued lack of clarity makes regulatory efforts toward mandatory sustainability reporting all the more important.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

This week in ESG news: Shell’s board of directors sued over climate strategy; UK regulator to test asset managers for greenwashing claims; Nordea ties top exec compensation to ESG goals; CDP says only 1 in 200 companies have credible climate plans; KPMG & Workiva partner on ESG reporting solutions; Aviva Investors to require climate transition (..)

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Net Zero CDP Greenwashing Green Bonds 84

Chris Hall

OCTOBER 24, 2022

But growing demand for information on climate risks from domestic investors and the pace of international developments on sustainable investment frameworks mean that US firms should prepare for very similar climate risk reporting requirements to their peers globally. A huge delta”. It’ll get there but it’ll take a while.”.

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