GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

"We are excited to join PCAF and to support the important work they are leading to build a methodology for global banks' efforts to track and measure climate change risks," said Audrey Choi, Morgan Stanley's chief sustainability officer and CEO of the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The European launch follows the introduction last year in Canada by Manulife of its Global Climate Action strategy, which utilizes a selection process based on the Paris Agreement and science-based targets to invest in companies that are making positive contributions to climate change.

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ESG Today

MAY 22, 2023

Lorraine Kelly, Global Head of Investment Stewardship at ISS, said: “Investor focus on managing biodiversity impact has the potential to become as significant and enduring as the current focus on climate change.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

—the world is not on track to meet its climate goals. Recent sobering reports show that the world is not on track to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement and highlight the steps needed to keep the goals in reach.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The 2022 Sustainable Banking Revenues Ranking shows global bankers are off to a slow start, but over time it will help guide consistency of reporting and provide an ongoing window into bankers’ progress in meeting the world’s Paris Agreement commitments. .

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Decarbonisation strategies are not keeping pace with the commitments being made by some of the world’s most polluting companies, Climate Action 100+ (CA100+)’s latest Net Zero Company Benchmark update has found. Renewed engagement.

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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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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Climate Action 100+ (CA100+) has increased investor representation on its global steering committee, adding Phoenix Group Head of Stewardship Valeria Piani alongside five others to further expand its geographic experience and expertise.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 14, 2024

CA100+ was established in 2017 as an investor-led initiative aiming to collectively support the goals of the Paris Agreement by challenging the large corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters to take action on climate change. A total of 170 firms representing a total market capitalisation of US$10.3

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In the two years since the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement , what progress has the world made on climate change? The primary outcomes of this year’s COP include: 1) the Paris Agreement Work Programme (PAWP); 2) the Talanoa Dialogue; and 3) the Pre-2020 action and ambition.

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ESG Today

MARCH 9, 2023

Providing access to distinct opportunities in emerging markets at a competitive fee, this ETF reduces climate risk exposure by investing in companies providing solutions to mitigate climate change as well as those improving their resilience to its consequences, giving them a long-term competitive advantage.”

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Indices that are labelled as Paris-aligned Benchmarks (PABs) under EU rules must meet criteria for asset selection that results in the index aligning with the long-term climate goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Chris Hall

JULY 21, 2023

By navigating the complexities of SFDR, investors can reduce carbon footprints, support the transition and contribute to a more sustainable future , says Pedro Carvalheiro, Head of Capital M arkets at He avyFinance. Article 9 funds are considered the most sustainable, requiring portfolios with 100 per cent sustainable investments.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

COP28 reminded investors of the difficulties involved in reaching inter-governmental consensus on intensifying climate action. These were highlighted at last October’s PRI in Person event by Jan Rasmussen, Head of ESG and Sustainability at PensionDanmark. C has not lessened; if anything, it has increased,” he says.

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Pension fund makes case for divestment, against backdrop of increasingly positive climate policy across major markets. Eight years since the Paris Agreement was adopted, the energy transition remains “stuck”, according to Spaargaren.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 19, 2022

COPs 27 and 15 can embed link between land use and climate change in policy and finance flows. It also plays an important role in regulating climate change. There’s a greater understanding of the interdependence of climate and nature and it’s clear that we have to address both these challenges jointly.”.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 23, 2021

This year’s COP26 summit is widely viewed as one of the last chances to fulfil the 2015 Paris climate agreement and ensure meaningful progress is made towards tackling our net zero targets and the climate emergency. We simply need to commit, think bigger and embrace what it can offer us. Policy-driven benefits.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

and avoiding the worst impacts of climate change. . Leaders of the world’s richest nations are not delivering the clear and consistent policy signals that business is calling for to enable the fastest possible transition to the sustainable, more secure, clean energy future that the world desperately needs. .

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Chris Hall

APRIL 11, 2022

Asset owners should track their contributions to climate change mitigation by calculating the green investment ratio of portfolios and assets, according to a recent report by the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). .

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Chris Hall

APRIL 23, 2024

Between 2019 and 2022, climate activists across the country became disheartened by the weaponisation of climate action under Scott Morrison’s government. In March , the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) published the results of an annual survey of its members, who collectively manage A$37 trillion (US$23.7

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Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2022

The majority of global pension funds are in the process of integrating climate goals into their portfolios, with many expecting to tilt their passive strategies toward the goals of the Paris agreement, including via use new index products. Only 22% said they currently use indexes based on the EU benchmarks on a notable scale.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 24, 2022

Consistent data on sovereign climate risks is crucial, says Victoria Barron, ASCOR Chair and Head of Sustainable Investment, BT Pension Scheme. billion (74%), and Europe – where the climate agenda dominates policy discussion – was the largest source of sovereign GSS bonds, responsible for 75% of issuance.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 30, 2023

This week, the ISSB delivered its long-awaited sustainability standards, to overwhelming but not universal acclaim. Double trouble – Undoubtedly, the most significant development in sustainable investment this week was the release of its first two standards by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB).

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Chris Hall

APRIL 14, 2022

As a high-emitting sector, oil and gas companies are under increasing pressure from investors and regulators to set decarbonisation targets that align with the goals of the Paris Agreement. Scope ESG said that “sustainable investment as a share of revenues remains below 2.5% Reducing emissions across all scopes .

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Chris Hall

JUNE 29, 2022

Institutional investors are increasingly attracted to climate-focused passive investment vehicles as a systematic and cost-effective way of transitioning their portfolios to net zero. . Recently, passive products that are ‘Paris-aligned’ – meaning they are decarbonising in line with a 1.5-2°C

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Last weekend (9-10 December) saw a host of events dedicated to nature, land use, oceans and food systems, including a high-level plenary discussion on “the importance of action on nature in delivering the goals of the Paris Agreement”. C without nature, and that climate change is one of the five main drivers of biodiversity loss.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 24, 2023

These areas included public policy engagement where investors are encouraged to influence the policy landscape that they and their investee companies are operating within, and synergies between stewardship policy and other sustainable investment policies.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 30, 2024

The MEE wants to have a scientific and clear methodology to assure the quality of the CCER,” said Dr Guo Peiyuan, Chairman of SynTao Green Finance – the founding organisation of China’s Sustainable Investment Forum.   The CCER will now focus on four initial sectors: afforestation, solar power generation, offshore wind and mangrove planting.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2023

With adaptation finance flows remaining dangerously low to meet climate goals, has COP28 made a difference? billion fund. Christopher Marks, Head of Growth Markets, Innovative Finance & Portfolio Solutions at MUFG EMEA, describes GAIA it as an “ecosystem” incorporating elements such as technical assistance.

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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. . The unit aims to support the goals of the Paris Agreement by providing equity capital to companies focused on energy transition.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Speaking at the ‘DACCS – Quantifying the investment Opportunity’ webinar, jointly hosted by the IPR and PRI, IPR Founder Mark Fulton agreed that DACCS must be “driven by policy around reducing carbon emissions”. He added that clean and new energy technologies will “require a lot of government input to get going”. GtCO2 a year by 2050.

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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

AUGUST 19, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of moves and appointments in the sustainable investing sector, including UNFCCC, WTW, Calvert, Actis and Insight Investment. . The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has appointed Simon Stiell as its new Executive Secretary.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 16, 2023

The High Seas Treaty provides the certainty needed for greater sustainable investment into the ocean, says Karen Sack, Executive Director at the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA). It is a key defence against climate change. It provides food, livelihoods, oxygen and recreation.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

C higher than in the pre-industrial era, the physical effects of climate change have already started to materialize. ([1], Natural disasters have always occurred, but climate change is making them more frequent and more intense. C objective of the Paris Agreement would of course significantly limit these impacts.

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We Mean Business Coalition

JUNE 2, 2022

Debates are currently underway in both the EU and the US about how companies should report on the risks that climate change is bringing to their business – and vice versa. Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, thousands of companies have voluntarily set ambitious, science-based emissions reduction targets.

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