Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Stewardship synergies NBIM’s Snorre suggested that investors should look to explore synergies between new nature-related risk and reporting processes and existing sustainable investment activities stemming from climate risks, such as engagement activity with portfolio companies to reduce deforestation. “If

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In both the public and private sectors, this week saw incremental progress in support of sustainable investment objectives, rather than transformative changes. A selection of this week’s major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces. 

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Chris Hall

MARCH 25, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Federated Hermes, SLM Partners, DIF, PGGM, MEAG and Future Planet Capital. . Each theme also considers multiple sub-themes aligned with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

COP27 deadline for Green Finance Strategy likely to be missed, as investors await details on sustainable investment framework. Investors are expecting details this week on the new UK government’s strategy on energy and inflation, but time is running out for updates on key climate and green finance policies ahead of COP27.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

C of warming, the Inevitable Policy Response calculates that current government policies, ie those in place pre-COP28, will only limit climate change to 1.8°C Remco Fischer, Head of Climate Change at the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative, sees less risk for investors taking bets on a 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The parallels between the disclosure and risk management frameworks of the TNFD and its forerunner, the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), are welcomed as easing the disclosure burden, but few under-estimate the challenge ahead.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 9, 2023

InfluenceMap said while PG&E “demonstrates positive and active engagement with climate change policy”, it highlights the misalignment of the firm’s positive positions with its board-level membership in the American Gas Association and California Chamber of Commerce, which both actively lobby against state and federal climate policies.

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