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Why corporate reporting isn’t a proxy for progress

GreenBiz

Two-thirds of what is dubbed sustainable investment comprises negative-screen funds. Excluding tobacco from a fund will not have any impact on climate change. At the same time, what is billed as an ESG investment is exaggerated. The final third of ESG investment also is wrought with classification challenges.

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System change investing: High impact, high return

GreenBiz

Nearly all SRI and corporate sustainability strategies focus on changing companies and addressing symptoms, such as climate change, poverty and other major environmental and social challenges. For example, the solution to climate change and deforestation largely does not involve addressing these problems directly.

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Responsible-investing trailblazer awarded Order of Canada

Corporate Knights

MH: Choosing among responsible investment tools – positive and negative screening, divestment and engagement – is complicated. How does this history relate to our climate change crisis and the debate over fossil fuels? Climate change cannot be addressed by only changing your portfolio.

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Report: Meet the top 200 companies investing in a clean energy future

Corporate Knights

The Clean200 uses negative screens. The Clean200 also excludes palm oil, paper/pulp, rubber, timber, beef, and soy producers that are screened on As You Sow ’s Deforestation Free Funds , companies using child or forced labour, and companies that engage in negative climate lobbying. Source: CK) 1.

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SMEs Can Turn Ambition Into Action With SAP Product Footprint Management for Clean Operations

3BL Media

Climate change is top of mind for leaders worldwide who are committing to driving down greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through ambitious net-zero targets. What’s more, investors are now going beyond “negative screening” and actively backing businesses that are leaders in sustainability, in pursuit of above-market returns.

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Take Five: Future-proofing to the Fore

Chris Hall

Like several others, Travelers has been hiking home insurance premiums and restricting coverage to protect itself from the financial impacts of extreme weather events associated with climate change, such as the recent Los Angeles fires.

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How to Guide a Conversation Around Sustainable Investing

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Climate change; racial and gender diversity; stakeholder capitalism—several years ago, investment advisors might have been surprised to hear these terms come up in conversations with clients. Negative screens. by Jeff Finkelman, Colleen Silver, Paulina Mejia. SOURCE: Franklin Templeton. ESG benefits.