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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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Climate tops ESG Priorities for US Institutional Investors

Chris Hall

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 Managers also reported applying fossil fuel divestment screens across US$1.2

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Sustainability trends 2023

Carlos Sanchez

Among investors, sustainable investing is evolving from negative screening toward engaging with companies. Consequently the information ESG investors are seeking is changing too. Sustainability trends 2023: Net-Zero roadmaps. At COP26 last year, we left with the feeling that businesses were committed to net zero.

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This Week’s Fund News: DWS Launches ESG Fund for Women, by Women

Chris Hall

Driving substantive progress in the fight against climate change will require entire sectors to transition. C target for limiting global warming, alongside commitments to build net zero carbon portfolios. Over recent years we have seen an increasing focus amongst asset owners on investing in line with a 1.5°C

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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: NatureAlpha Joins UN Biodiversity Data Initiative

Chris Hall

It also expects strong growth in technology, media and telecommunications firms’ spending on carbon management software, primarily driven by net zero pledges and competitive pressures. German index provider Solactive has acquired ESG research, stewardship support and proxy voting agency Minerva Analytics.

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

Corporate Knights

Every company and every industry will be transformed by the transition to a net zero world.”. More than 1,000 companies have now committed to a net-zero-emission target in line with a 1.5°C To date, financial firms have pledged that more than US$130 trillion of assets will be net-zero by 2050. Source: CK) 1.

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