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Why Stand Alone ESG Ratings Could Improve Reporting

Strategic Sustainability Consulting

While Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) ratings are becoming more prominent with over $120 billion funneled into sustainable investments in 2021 (more than double the $51 billion from 2020), these ratings are an imperfect effort for sharing relevant information with investors.

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Sustainability disclosures: Why we need a global reporting standard in 2022

We Mean Business Coalition

At COP26 in Glasgow the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation announced the creation of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) to develop a comprehensive global baseline of sustainability disclosures.

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Investment Firm Ramps up Clients' Sustainability Efforts

3BL Media

Alice Evans, Co-Head of BMO GAM (EMEA)’s Responsible Investment team, said: “COP26 in November last year served to further highlight the scale of the challenge in addressing climate change.

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More Focus, More Impact 

Chris Hall

Many of the tools in the sustainable investing toolbox are not up to the job, he argued, which is why universal owners are bound to fail when they try to internalise climate targets within their portfolios. “So-called With 2023 having just been confirmed as the hottest year on record and progress on capping global warming to 1.5C

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4 Sustainable Business Trends to watch in 2021

Carlos Sanchez

On top of that, the low price of oil and uncertainty about the future reduced the attractiveness for investing in energy efficiency or renewable energy or the demand for electric vehicles. Besides, the pandemic has postponed the momentum towards COP26 or climate change movements like Greta Thunberg’s Friday’s for future.

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Think Global, Act Local

Chris Hall

Management of nature-related risks, impacts and dependencies could soon become central to asset owners’ sustainable investment strategies. Alongside its many harrowing and destructive impacts, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has provided an unintentional boost to the aims of COP26.

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Dig Deep for a Just Transition

Chris Hall

Continued controversies surrounding health and safety, land rights and toxic waste plague the sector, even as a number of companies begin to make progress. Prior to the COP26 summit, 141 signatories from human rights and environmental organisations sent a declaration to climate negotiators. Ashman asks.