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ESG Explainer: The Blue Economy

Chris Hall

The global economy relies on the health of the ocean, says Dennis Fritsch, Project Coordinator, Sustainable Blue Economy Finance at the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). trillion annually, has attracted just US$13 billion in sustainable investment during the past decade.

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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: GRI Publishes New Coal Standard

Chris Hall

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including GRI, Sustainalytics, ISS ESG, CDP, Diginex, Esgaia and Normative. . More scrutiny is needed on the companies that remain in the coal sector, with accountability for their impacts.

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Investors’ Fight to Track Impact on Nature

Chris Hall

Fidelity International’s Cozic says that the asset manager provides training to its investment teams on biodiversity and nature-related data to “continue to raise awareness so that they know our expectations towards companies in these areas”. Other investors are working to develop and launch their own data solutions.

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Defining Sustainable Economic Systems – Development vs Growth

Richard Matthews

Our economic system has failed to address long-standing threats like climate change, biodiversity loss, disease, water scarcity, and inequality. Current economic paradigms are myopically fixated on growth and this is not sustainable. It is focused on recycling waste to lower environmental costs.