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Canada is falling behind in global race to attract sustainable investments: Guilbeault

Corporate Knights

Canada is lagging in its efforts to drive private capital into sustainable investments to finance solutions on climate change and other environmental challenges. The post Canada is falling behind in global race to attract sustainable investments: Guilbeault appeared first on Corporate Knights.

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Impact Cubed's New EU Taxonomy Solution Provides Global Insights Into Green Investments

3BL Media

These new rules, intended to counteract greenwashing, spell out the criteria for a green investment and require market participants to disclose how they are aligned with them. The outcome is a seamless approach to customized sustainable investing.

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Feds roll out climate requirements for companies that receive big government contracts

Corporate Knights

At the GLOBExCHANGE conference, Treasury Board President Mona Fortier and Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault announced that companies wanting to supply the federal government on contracts worth more than $25 million will need to comply with new climate change requirements. C scenarios, Routledge said.

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EU ‘green’ label for gas and nuclear sparks sustainable investing crisis

Corporate Knights

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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Take Five: Into the Stratosphere

Chris Hall

The European Markets and Securities Authority (ESMA) released an analysis that noted the “absence of harmonised and standardised reporting requirements” for private sector actors against SDG targets, and concluded that most funds claiming to contribute to SDGs neither explained clearly how they aligned, nor invested any differently to non-SDG funds.

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ICYMI, ESG Investing is Growing up in Public

Chris Hall

Rampant criticism of green investment will only accelerate its maturity. In the two weeks since our last blog, and the three since the Financial Times’ Katie Martin first tweeted about Stuart Kirk’s fêted and ill-fated climate-risk speech, there’s been an avalanche of comment on the failings and misunderstandings of ESG investing.

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FCA Challenged on Backdoor for Fossil Fuel Firms

Chris Hall

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) was challenged during a parliamentary hearing on Wednesday, on the grounds that funds adhering to the regulator’s proposed rules for sustainability labels may be able to hold fossil fuel firms, some of which have recently rowed back on climate commitments. This is set to change.