3BL Media
MARCH 25, 2022
DESCRIPTION: ESG in Action As climate change intensifies, so do the physical and transition risks to industries and companies. But how do investors quantify those changes? Historically, they’ve measured a portfolio’s climate impact based on its carbon footprint or weighted average carbon intensity. By Sara Rosner.
Chris Hall
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
This week’s blog marks the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by noting five of the changes it has wrought to sustainable investing. A selection of this week’s major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces. In the Global North, food shortages and panic buying marked a severe cost-of-living crisis.
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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”.
Chris Hall
JANUARY 3, 2024
C of warming, the Inevitable Policy Response calculates that current government policies, ie those in place pre-COP28, will only limit climate change to 1.8°C Remco Fischer, Head of Climate Change at the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative, sees less risk for investors taking bets on a 1.5°C Lee suggests not. “In
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.
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. It also includes risks related to resource scarcity (e.g. eliminating slavery and child labor).
Chris Hall
MAY 11, 2022
Policy reform, best practice and legal judgments are redefining the relationship between fiduciary duty and sustainable investment. In late April, the UK High Court ruled that charity trustees can consider climate change factors when making decisions over their investments, even if it means making lower returns.
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