ESG Today

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Liudmila Strakodonskaya, Responsible Investment Analyst, AXA IM, said: “Nature protection is a challenge that needs to be addressed to preserve the existence of our societies and global economies. Companies and investors must integrate nature and biodiversity considerations in their research, engagement and investment processes.

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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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Chris Hall

MARCH 17, 2023

Investors must now apply a double materiality perspective to their sustainable investment process to ensure real economy impacts, according to Louis Bromfield, Lead Sustainable Investment Associate at Foresight Capital Management. Infrastructure is the essential backbone to modern economies and societies.

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

With ESG gaining more attention and more companies committing to reaching net-zero emissions in the coming decades or otherwise pledging to do better by people and the planet, it’s inevitable that the next generation of professionals in the field will define the future of sustainable finance. Global sustainability expert at SDG Advocate.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As we live through the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), we are experiencing social and technological change at an exponential pace. At the same time, complex challenges such as climate change and inequities require us to rethink how we can do more – as a Company, as a society and individually.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Ceres and the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) will co-lead the initiative's Secretariat and Corporate Engagement workstreams; the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation and Planet Tracker will co-lead the Technical Advisory Group. Mindy Lubber, CEO and President, Ceres, said: “The global economy depends on nature.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

By: Bruno Sarda, TMT Climate Change & Sustainability Services Leader, Ernst & Young LLP Leaders from across the globe recently reconvened for the World Economic Forum’s 53rd annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, and covered everything from the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, to the state of the global economy and more.

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3BL Media

APRIL 19, 2022

But the sustainable investing boom has not been without growing pains. The notion that institutional and small investors can back companies that are socially responsible — or ensuring their bottom lines are safe from climate change — has been a boon for Wall Street and Silicon Valley.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

As global momentum builds behind transition planning, Mark Manning, Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, makes the case for a systemic response to the challenges of climate change. Arguably, we need to be thinking about transition planning as a system response to the challenges of climate change.”

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

—the world is not on track to meet its climate goals. 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. The latest National Climate Assessment found the U.S.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including OnePlanetCapital, Cardano Advisory, Marsh, Brown Advisory and Xpansiv. Anthony Chant has been appointed as Investment Director at OnePlanetCapital , the climate change focused early-stage venture capital fund.

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Chris Hall

JULY 8, 2022

Supporting resilience and just transition are as important as climate mitigation, says Lihuan Zhou, Associate at the World Resources Institute’s Sustainable Finance Center. Sustainable investing is a key part of curbing climate change, and the sector is showing some signs of progress.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Financial organisations thus have a major role to play in the decarbonisation of the global economy, yet it is estimated that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, the 60 largest banks have instead invested $5.5 Clearly much more needs to be done to pivot towards more sustainable investment and lending practices.

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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. . Global asset manager Federated Hermes has launched a Biodiversity Equity fund, with insights from the UK’s Natural History Museum.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 16, 2022

With the global economy heavily reliant on ocean health, a sustainable future is paramount. Changes in the ocean drive weather systems that influence both land and marine ecosystems. The ocean economy, estimated to be worth US$2.5 What can investors and financial institutions do to support ocean sustainability?

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James Militzer

APRIL 19, 2023

Over the last year, Convergence and USAID worked with over 100 stakeholders — including private investor groups managing a combined $130 trillion in assets under management, as well as donor governments and philanthropic foundations — to find a solution to significantly increase sustainable investment.

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Chris Hall

JULY 6, 2022

Stewardship is widely considered one of the most effective tools in an asset owner’s toolbox to ensure companies are prioritising ESG-related issues, such as mitigating the effects of climate change. . “ The DWP will assess whether further guidance is needed in H2 2023. . Plotting a path to Paris .

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

At COP26, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero ( GFANZ ) declared a sector-wide commitment of US$130 trillion – a number that has increased over the year to US$150 trillion – of private capital to transition the global economy to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. Demanding data.

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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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Chris Hall

APRIL 21, 2023

In its latest synthesis report , the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a “final warning”, calling for swift and decisive action to keep global average temperature rise to <1.5°C C to prevent catastrophic climate change. The transformation of the global economy will take US $9.2

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Chris Hall

MARCH 2, 2022

By including gas, the EU is “giving the false impression that gas is ‘green’, which might lead to the wrong investment decisions” and potentially “delay the large-scale investments we need into renewables”, says Diamantopoulou. Investing in a renewable future.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Among investors, sustainable investing is evolving from negative screening toward engaging with companies. Consequently the information ESG investors are seeking is changing too. Impact investing is getting traction and, in 2022, reached 1.2 trillion in AUM, according to a report by the Global Investing Network.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Mediolanum, KBI Global Investors, Pictet Asset Management, Invesco, Nuveen, SWEN Capital Partners and SIS Ventures. The fund aims to generate strong financial returns while addressing climate change and inequality.

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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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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

International shipping accounted for 2% of global energy-related CO2 emissions last year, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

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Jon Hale

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Attending some non-work holiday parties this year, I had several great conversations about sustainable investing. Sustainable investing resonated with all four. But after we talked for a while about sustainable investing, she did a 180. She asked me directly to give her recommendations for sustainable funds.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Invesco, Edentree, AXA IM, HSBC AM, Octopus, Brown Advisory, NEC, Tabula and Global Palladium Fund. Invesco has rebadged its Invesco UK Companies fund as the Invesco Sustainable UK Companies fund.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Climate risk and resilience are largely modeled by insurance companies, looking at how a company’s assets may be affected by rising sea levels, extreme heat, increasing natural disasters and other future climate events as climate change worsens. Learn about the future of #climate investing from @Nasdaq: [link].

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

The investor has emerged over the past several years as a leading voice in the investment community on climate change and energy transition-related themes, but has been clear in its belief that these issues are considered from a fiduciary perspective, with clients’ long-term interests in mind.

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Sustainability Update

APRIL 11, 2023

Now ESG is seen in some quarters as “a threat” to the citizens and especially the well-being of public finance (at least in the Republican-led states), Alas, also in the halls of Congress where we see frequent and heated “pro and con” debates about ESG, climate change, sustainable investing, corporate sustainability…and more.

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