James Militzer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

According to Peru’s Ministry of Environment’s National Forest Conservation Program for Climate Change Mitigation, Peru (and the world) have lost an average of roughly 100,000 hectares of forest per year since 2006. CATALYZE Peru is on track to mobilize more than US $100 million in sustainable investment deals across the region.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Clearly there has been an explosion of interest and involvement in ESG or Sustainable and Responsible Impact Investing (SRI), especially in the last decade. At the same time, let’s also look pragmatically at the challenges for the next quarter century. And here is where it is going.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Business Benefits of Sustainable Finance Several advantages to sustainable finance go beyond producing dividends. Here are a few of the outcomes that contribute to a company's long-term sustainability and competitiveness. Lower perceived risk can result in lower costs for financing.

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3BL Media

MARCH 1, 2022

BMO Global Asset Management (EMEA), which is now part of Columbia Threadneedle Investments, has committed to continue to prioritise engagement with companies on major environmental issues including climate change and biodiversity, as well as human rights issues and executive pay.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

The report , published alongside the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2) and Proxy Impact, reviewed at least 527 shareholder resolutions filed on ESG issues for the current proxy season. The environment remains a central shareholder concern with more than 190 proposals filed, a near 20% increase on 2023.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 13, 2022

LCIF is expected to deploy typical initial ticket-sized investments of €10-40 million to European and North American growth-stage companies innovating towards a net-zero economy by 2050 and building operating systems for climate change issues.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2022

US SIF Foundation biennial trends reports smaller share of assets managed sustainably, due to methodology, regulatory changes. This is the first time that climate change has been the top criterion for US asset owners, applied to US$3.96 We see climate change as a predominant specific factor.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Nature Action 100’s Secretariat and Corporate Engagement workstreams will be co-led by sustainable investment focused organizations Ceres and the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). Dialogue between companies and investors then becomes fundamental to drive collective action.”.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 4, 2024

Latin America’s next phase of impact investing must embrace the region’s specific challenges and opportunities, says Ahmad El Jurdi, Principal at Lightrock. In recent years, Latin America has been at the core of a paradox within the global investment landscape.

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Alante Capital Management is a venture capital fund investing in innovative technologies that address climate change and enable a resilient, sustainable future for apparel production and retail. Alpha Impact Investment Management Partners. Sustainability, CSR, ESG & SRI = $.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Manulife Financial’s global wealth and asset management business Manulife Investment Management announced today the launch of the Manulife Forest Climate Fund, aimed at providing investors with the opportunity to invest in nature and climate change mitigation, and delivering value through carbon credits.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

The report , published alongside the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2) and Proxy Impact, reviewed at least 527 shareholder resolutions filed on ESG issues for the current proxy season. The environment remains a central shareholder concern with more than 190 proposals filed, a near 20% increase on 2023.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 23, 2022

Assets in European impact funds increased by 50% in 2021 compared to 2020, as demand for the classification increases in the wake of greenwashing claims against funds elsewhere in the sustainable investment universe. of total European funds’ net assets currently follow an impact investing approach.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 31, 2023

Despite growing sustainable investment opportunities across Africa, “business-as-usual” finance system reinforces funding gap. Climate finance channelled into Africa cannot be upscaled in line with a 1.5°C The Loss and Damage Fund was unveiled at COP27 and aims to compensate countries most vulnerable to climate change.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 22, 2022

By Alison Fenton-Willock | Director, Sustainable Investing. I believe this is a moment of potential change in public and investor attitudes on workers and ESG. Nat Keohane ( President of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions ): Climate change is an area that needs some reasons for hope! SOURCE: KKR.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including BT Pension Scheme, Global Impact Investing Network, Fulcrum Asset Management, S&P Global Sustainable1 and JLL. Central Banking and Financial Stability in the Age of Climate Change”.

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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. By the end of the century, 50% or more is at risk.

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ESG Today

JULY 1, 2022

Sustainable investment firm responsAbility and asset manager ESG Asset Management (ESG-AM) announced the launch of the Transition to Net Zero Bond Fund. As an example of the fund’s strategy, the investment firms highlighted its holdings in building materials company Holcim.

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Richard Matthews

MARCH 21, 2022

This alphabetized list of PEs is composed of firms that focus on one or more of the following SDGs: Climate action, clean energy, sustainable cities and communities, quality education, innovation and infrastructure, life below water, and life on land. To illustrate, last year KKR ‘s Euro Global Social Impact Fund raised $1.3

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 18, 2024

The Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosure (TNFD) was founded in June 2021 to provide a framework for corporations and financial institutions to assess, manage and report on their dependencies and impacts on nature beyond climate change.

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Sense and Sustainability

JANUARY 12, 2022

Responsible investment is most often defined as investment that promotes environmental, social, and governance elements/practices deemed as responsible , though it can also be a broader term for other types of similar investment. In other words, a positive impact is valued above financial returns.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Difficulties in definition continue to thwart efforts to demonstrate the financial benefits of sustainable investments. Sustainable fund flows attracted US$37 billion of net new money in Q4 2022, with global sustainable fund assets reaching a total of US$2.5 ESG integration alone is not sufficient for inclusion.

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In recent years, impact investing has become mainstream and private equity (PE) firms are playing a key role. Despite being dismissed by some as “woke capitalism”, impact investing is a trend that is here to stay. PEs are changing systems and control processes to accommodate this shift.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 21, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including DWS, T. The ESG Women for Women fund is managed exclusively by women, investing in companies that have strong social values and fair working conditions for women. “The

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

Ignoring the realities of climate change — and recognizing the disparate impacts that environmental harms have on systemically vulnerable populations — compels me to continue finding collaborative solutions and frameworks that can work for us all, the "tide that lifts all boats.". Global sustainability expert at SDG Advocate.

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Sustainability Update

JUNE 28, 2022

by Hank Boerner – Chair & Chief Strategist – G&A Institute What is it about an investable product – a mutual fund, an exchange traded fund (ETF) – that would qualify it as an “ESG” or “sustainable investment” offering to the retail or institutional investor? That’s a question getting more attention recently.

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3BL Media

APRIL 19, 2022

Jordan Locke, a recruitment consultant in Acre's Global Sustainable Finance & Impact Investing Team, sat down with Business Insider alongside a group of industry experts to discuss the current ESG talent shortage, ‘greenwashing’ and the rapid pace of change. . SOURCE: Acre. DESCRIPTION: ?Jordan

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2023

trillion annually but attracted just US$13 billion in sustainable investment over the past decade; achieving SDG 14 will require US$174.5 My-Linh Ngo, Head of ESG Investment at BlueBay Asset Management, agreed, noting that “framing nature loss and climate change as systemic risks to institutional investors is really pivotal”.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Federated Hermes, Finance Earth, BlackRock, SSEF, Advantage Capital and the IKEA Foundation. .

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 2, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including Janus Henderson, First Sentier, PGIM, US SIF and IIGCC. . Dunstan will begin her new role on 9 January 2023, and will be responsible for overseeing Janus Henderson’s responsible investing efforts.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including AustralianSuper, Morningstar, Tikehau Capital, Oak Hill Advisors and Guinness Global Investors. . He has also previously held roles at the Global Impact Investing Net work and the African Green Infrastructure Investment Bank initiative.

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Chris Hall

JULY 21, 2022

Sindhu Krishna, Head of Sustainable Investments at Phoenix Group, explains how the asset owner is holding managers to account. trillion of investment over the next 15 years. We work with asset management partners to understand their due diligence on a transaction-by-transaction basis for impact investing.”.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Research predicts new demands on asset managers, as clients’ sustainable investment priorities mature. Institutional and intermediary clients’ sustainable investment demands are growing increasingly sophisticated, requiring managers to reappraise their skills and budget levels. A long way to go”.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout will trigger a ‘skyward surge’ in sustainable, responsible and impactful investing over the next 12 months, affirms the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations. ESG refers to a class of investing also known as “sustainable investing.”

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 4, 2023

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. In the absence of such a paradigm, ‘impact-washing’ is fast becoming the most duplicitous form of greenwashing.

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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. had AUM of US$100 to 249 billion, and 23.5%

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Efficient, reliable and trusted benchmarks can cut the cost of sustainable investment, as they allow passive, index-based strategies to support sustainable investment objectives. Passive funds, she said, account for roughly 40% of all US sustainable investment assets under management.

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