3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Climate risk and resilience are largely modeled by insurance companies, looking at how a company’s assets may be affected by rising sea levels, extreme heat, increasing natural disasters and other future climate events as climate change worsens. SOURCE: Nasdaq, Inc.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber found it necessary to emphasise his commitment to science , after an ill-tempered webinar circulated in which he said there was no scientific evidence to suggest 1.5°C Their foresight and initiatives to adapt to climate change must not be punished with crushing debt,” he said.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 31, 2023

Despite growing sustainable investment opportunities across Africa, “business-as-usual” finance system reinforces funding gap. Climate finance channelled into Africa cannot be upscaled in line with a 1.5°C The Loss and Damage Fund was unveiled at COP27 and aims to compensate countries most vulnerable to climate change.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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 We see climate change as a predominant specific factor.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

An announcement from EU member states on the implementation of EUDR is expected at COP28, he added. Also speaking on the webinar, Julie Gorte, Senior Vice President for Sustainable Investing at Impax Asset Management, described EUDR as one of the more “comprehensive and far-reaching tools” focused on environmental preservation.

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Jon Hale

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

I know that seems unlikely as we sit here today, but if asset managers are serious about stopping climate change, they need to have the courage to step up and make hard choices. 13 deadline, join this webinar, sponsored by CERES, EDF and US SIF. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

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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”.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2023

Countries are already dealing with massive movement of peoples due to war and conflict, and now increasingly climate disasters from outside their borders, and within. Countries are already dealing with massive movement of peoples due to war and conflict, and now increasingly climate disasters from outside their borders, and within.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 3, 2024

In a webinar held on 2 April to discuss the details of the three guidance papers, ten members of the NZAOA, including AkademikerPension , Kenfo and University Pension Plan Ontario , highlighted the need for better transparency, consistency and accessibility in asset managers’ stewardship practices when it comes to ESG issues.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 26, 2022

At a webinar co-hosted by the FAIRR Initiative and the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) last week, speakers said ‘eco-schemes’ being submitted as part of countries’ national plans under the revised Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) could be automatically included in the taxonomy.

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Chris Hall

JULY 5, 2024

Story time – The halfway point of the calendar year brings forth a stream of impact and sustainability reports from asset managers and owners, particularly in the UK, as signatories also comply with their obligations under the Stewardship Code. The post Take Five: Policy and Power appeared first on ESG Investor.

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3BL Media

JULY 27, 2023

This year, for the first time, a company was excluded from an investment fund on the basis of biodiversity. CERES, the sustainable investing advocacy group, launched Nature 100 to mobilize investors to take actions to reduce nature loss and accelerate nature recovery. WHC webinars are all available for free.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 24, 2023

In mid-February last year, Sustainable Investments Institute had identified 27 anti-ESG proposals and for 2023 there are at least 40 so far, a big jump that suggests last year’s surge will be surpassed. Six proposals on reproductive health went to vote in 2022, with average support of 40%. We’re in a really tough spot on [….]

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Watch the webinar recording: On November 21, 2022, SDSN and the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University (CSD) hosted the second of three webinars to discuss the Lancet COVID-19 Commission’s findings and recommendations, as presented in their final report: The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from COVID-19.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 8, 2025

Is Tesla a responsible investment? Last Wednesday, Toronto-based sustainable investment adviser Tim Nash held a webinar to answer the number one question he says hes been getting from his clients: how to divest from Tesla?

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