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Analyzing Carbon Offset Markets’ role in our journey to a net-zero world

Carlos Sanchez

While some recognise carbon offsets markets as key for us to achieve net-zero emissions world by 2050 by funnelling cash into cost-effective projects, others believe credits are a dangerous distraction that allows polluters to pay their way out of the problem. Introduction. 1 – 1.5ºC emission pathway (Source McKinsey & Co).

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8 Leaders at Davos 2022 Explain How Business Can Deliver on ESG Promises

3BL Media

The World Economic Forum’s Measuring Stakeholder Capitalism: Towards Common Metrics and Consistent Reporting of Sustainable Value Creation , launched in 2020, enabled businesses to track their contributions towards the SDGs on a consistent basis. This calls for greater attention to how the data underlying ESG ratings is generated.

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From Ambition to Delivery

Chris Hall

While pushing for public policy action in support of COP26 commitments, private sector actors must accelerate their low carbon transition, say experts. In the wake of COP26, it falls on many shoulders to implement and operationalise the rhetoric of Glasgow. Time for action.

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More Focus, More Impact 

Chris Hall

The investment community may have limited control over net zero targets, but it can enable better outcomes, says London Business School Executive Fellow Tom Gosling. He suggested using the UN-Convened Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) guidelines as guidance for the way they engage with asset managers as a good starting point.

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4 ESG trends to watch in 2022

Carlos Sanchez

Besides, Danone’s CEO stepped down after investors blamed him for failing to balance shareholder value creation and sustainability. Finally, we had the Conference of the parties COP26, where countries and businesses increased their climate ambition. ESG trends in 2022: Net-Zero ambition.

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Sustainability trends 2023

Carlos Sanchez

Among companies, Impact Valuation as an approach to valuing a company’s impact on society has hit an inflexion point. The work of the Value Balancing Alliance and Harvard’s newly formed International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI) aim at measuring companies’ value creation.

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Guest Post: 3 Guiding Pillars for Companies Looking to Create an Effective Climate Transition Plan

ESG Today

At last year’s COP26 climate conference, the U.K. ’s Net-zero Asset Owner Alliance membership, a group of institutional investors pledging an active role in the climate transition, has grown to 74 members and totaled $10.6 Meanwhile, the U.N.’s trillion in assets under management (AUM).